In 2016 I became interested in the advent of homemade desktop 3D printers. So I started to study printer projects and in 2016 I built my first 3D printer at home. I brought this printer to my work and used it to make some key pieces in project development. With the gain of experience I decided to build another printer with some improvements. Today I have already assembled 5 printers, some for personal use and others on demand with special features for specific purposes.
To take advantage of the full potential of my printers I had to be specialized in designing my own pieces. For this I studied Autodesk Inventor and today I can design my own parts from scratch, increasing the efficiency of my projects.
See also: Research section and the projects "Dip Coating Controller" and "Stopmotion 3DP"
My daily work routine involves helping teachers to prepare experiments in electronics and electricity, as well as answering students' doubts about electronic circuits and helping with the assembly of prototypes.
Also in my daily work, I perform preventive and corrective maintenance on electronic equipment, such as Oscilloscope, Signal Generator, Computers, DC voltage sources, variable DC voltage sources, among others.
Together with co-workers, I participated in multidisciplinary projects, such as the “Automation of the Compton scattering experiment”.
In this project, I contributed by designing, prototyping, and assembling an electronic circuit based on "Arduino" and "PIC" microcontrollers (ATmega 328P and 16F688) that exposes the radiative source through a servo motor, monitors the radiative protection sensors, does the positioning of the radiation reader through a stepper motor and also communicates with an external computer through a TCP/IP network.
This project became notorious at the institute of physics and won the “PAEPE award” in 2014.
This project reduced the execution time of the experiment and zeroed the radiation dose to which the students were exposed.
See also: The project "Automatic exposure system for radioactive source at teaching laboratory"
In 2017 I started my Python studies in order to use some data processing scripts in the experiments performed at my workplace. After developing some data acquisition scripts via USB communication with oscilloscopes and signal generators, I realized the power of this tool and deepened my studies. I started to make user interfaces written in python and QT, which improved the acceptance of new routines and student learning.
Over the years I've written from simple routines to automate some common activities to complex programs involving web applications and Telegram Bots.
See also: The projects "PyLab", "Pyscratch", and "Lab alerts"
In many of my projects I use microcontrollers to manage tasks. Among the controllers I use are Arduinos, PICs and Raspberry PI. In all projects the controller codes are written by me in C, C++ and Python, as needed.
In these projects I design and assemble control and interface electronics with motors, servomoters, sensors (optical, magnetic, mechanical...), cameras, displays, buttons and so on.
See also: The projects "Automatic exposure system for radioactive source at teaching laboratory", "Dip Coating Controller", "OhmSorter", and "Stopmotion 3DP"
Most of my projects involve integration with mechanical components. Whenever I develop a project I think about the integration of electronics with mechanical parts and 3D printed parts.
I have experience with servo motors, stepper motors, linear guides, bearings, many types of sensors, keyboards, and LCD displays.