About Me

I am recently retired from the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada where I was active in developing programming and robotics laboratories. in 2008 I introduced Lego Robots into the 750-student Queens Engineering and Applied Science first year programming course APSC142. The first fleet of 50 robots were based on the Lego NXT Educational kit, but these were upgraded to new Bots based on the Lego EV3 Educational kit in 2014.

As part of student learning resources, I had developed a graphical Windows^TM simulator for the NXT Bots so that students could work on their RobotC programs outside of the lab. Over several years, thee simulator evolved and I have now updated it to model the newer EV3 Bots (called "QEV3Bot"'s for "Queen's EV3 Bot"), and the newest version of RobotC.

I had also developed an Arduino simulator for a separate second year ELEC299 lab course that employed custom-designed robots controlled by an Arduino microcontroller board -- I have since developed that into a more generic Arduino Uno simulator that features a lab bench to model connecting virtual I/O devices -- that free educational simulator can be found at www.sites.google.com/site/unoardusim.

You can FIND ME on the Professional Engineers Ontario web site if you would like some degree of reassurance about the safety of my posted zip and executable files -- go to

https://www.peo.on.ca/directory

and on the Individual panel enter Last Name: Simmons, First name: Stan, and then click the Search button.

Then click on me and open and read my profile! -- OR VIEW MY SCREEN PRINT OF THAT SEARCH PAGE RESULT BELOW (click on PDF below))