V. Hunter Adams

The materials below summarize my philosophies toward engineering in general, embedded systems engineering in particular, teaching, and service/open-source. On engineering . . . A love letter to embedded systems On teaching . . . Teaching statement What makes a good laboratory exercise? On service, and on open-sourcing one's work . . . Service statement Natural Computing Humanity has a long history of utilizing natural processes for the production of power, but it has underutilized these processes for computation. Can we unlock the latent computational potential that exists in nature? If we can, we might improve the relationship between nature and machines, and radically increase total global compute. Chipsats (very tiny spacecraft) A chipsat is a spacecraft which is small enough to fit in your wallet. Each is a printed circuit board equipped with a collection of sensors, a processor for gathering measurements from those sensors, and a radio for communicating those measurements to one another and to data-aggregating receiver stations. Because they are so tiny and cheap, chipsats can be launched and deployed in massive number. This makes them fabulous tools for conducting certain kinds of science in space. They're particularly well suited for distributed sensing experiments which involve deploying a bunch over a broad area of space or on the surface of a planet/comet/etc., and gathering measurements from that whole area. This list includes both personal projects and projects generated for assignment to students. I have provided all source code for personal projects. The code for projects which may be assigned to students is not posted publicly, but I'd be happy to send it to you if you email me. This content continues with various engineering projects, research interests, collaborations, and academic information.