Name: Michael Keesling
Member since: 2002-06-07 19:14:34
Last Login: 2009-10-30 21:16:04

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Professional Info

I have been working in the motion picture business for the last 20 years. I have been doing embedded motion control projects for the last 10. You can see some of the fruits of my labor at Clairmont Camera's web site. I invented the "Squishy Lens", and the "Image Shaker", for which I have been awarded a personal certificate of achievement by the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences. You can see them in action in movies like Minority Report, Jurassic Park III, X-Men, 3 Kings, Starship Troopers, Saving Private Ryan, Species II, as well as T.V. shows like Star Trek Voyager. The Image Shaker is used to simulate explosions, and is used a lot now, since it's easier than shaking the camera. The squishy lens provides an interesting distortion effect. It's used in the first shot of Minority Report. 

I am presently employed by a company called Panavision.

Hardware and Software

I have programmed Motorola, Intel, and pic processors in machine code, assembly, FORTH, BASIC, and C. I have also programmed in FORTRAN, C++, and LabView.

Projects

I have finally launched my Robogeeks site. Robogeeks is geared towards beginners, but with a lot of useful information and ideas for intermediate and advanced users. Hopefully, it will help pay for my expensive robotics hobby as well.

My battlebot is on hold, as I don't have a place to work on it right now. I hope that in 6 months or so, this will change. Nemesis robotics is where the last fruits of my efforts can be found.

The group of beginners which I mentor has a site dedicated to biological emulating robots. I hope to explore Artifical Neural Networks, and publish the efforts there.

Robots

I have built a hand full of little robots, mostly recyclable.

Ratbot, a 3 wheeled holy roller, no mpu, just sensors, 555's( a lot of 555's ), and transistors

Ratboy JR, a basic stamp controlled 3 wheeler

Tripe odd?, a 3 legged walker ( my first IsoPOD project )

Fry, a quadraped

3 or 4 un- nameables stamp, 6811, MCORE, cpntrolled, a 3 wheelers.

Fester, a 3 wheeled roller controlled by the IsoPOD

Ball Bot, a 1 wheeled robot (actually a ball driven by 3 friction wheels)

and now

A 12 "whegged", segmented "centipede"

Sensors

I am truly a sensor geek, seeking out all sensors I can find. I rely heavily on sensors at my job, so I keep a constant supply of data sheets flowing.

Projects

• Lead Developer on Bio Bots

Articles Posted by blueeyedpop

• New Electronics Discussion Forum 26 Jul 2002 at 14:35 UTC
• Robogeeks is now online 28 Jun 2002 at 06:23 UTC

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