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Autonomous robot prototypes
Two generations of mobile robots developed across the full autonomy stack: localization, perception, planning, control, electronics, and mechanical iteration.
Electronic engineer / prototype builder
I turn complex hardware and software into working prototypes.
I’m Kevin O’Flannagain. My work moves between autonomous robotics, optical systems, software, and hands-on electronics—taking difficult ideas from the whiteboard into the real world.
autonomous systems
optical engineering
physical computing
growing systems
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Autonomous robots
localization · perception · control
built
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Optical systems
beam steering · beam shaping
tested
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Physical computing
sensing · fabrication · code
iterated
$ build → test → learn → repeat
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robot generations
100
hand-wired LEDs
4×250W
drive motors
B.Eng
electronic engineering
01 / Selected work
Built, tested, iterated.
A selection of engineering work spanning autonomous machines, optical research, and interactive electronics. The common thread is simple: make the difficult thing work.
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Optical systems research
Beam steering, beam shaping, and optoelectronic switching research combining Python, MATLAB, Zemax OpticStudio, simulation, and physical experimentation.
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10×10 LED matrix + Pong
One hundred hand-soldered LEDs, multiplexed in code and turned into a playable Pong display with physical paddle controls.
02 / Capabilities
Across the whole system.
The interesting problems rarely stay in one discipline. I’m comfortable moving between code, hardware, models, and the test bench to find what is actually wrong.
Autonomous systems
Localization, perception, planning, control, sensing, and the integration work that connects them.
Optical engineering
Beam steering, beam shaping, optical-system modelling, simulation, and experimental verification.
Physical computing
Electronics, embedded control, fabrication, soldering, sensors, and rapid prototype iteration.
03 / Workshop
Curiosity, made physical.
Smaller experiments are where new techniques become instincts. These projects were built to learn by doing—and usually by rebuilding.
Electronics / build log
3×3×3 LED cube
Layer-and-column control, custom patterns, and plenty of test-and-repair.
Python / game
Scrolling space game
A Space Invaders-style prototype with movement, projectiles, and a parallax world.
Garden / living systems
Kitchen garden record
Twenty-seven active plantings, dated photographs, and 12.7 kg of weighed harvests.
04 / Growing systems
A garden, measured season by season.
What began with trays under grow lights became a full kitchen-garden record: plantings, dated progress photos, and every harvest weighed as it came indoors.
12.7 kgharvest recorded
71documented moments
08harvest days
05 / Background
Code is only part of the answer.
I’m most at home moving between code, electronics, mechanical constraints, and testing until a complex idea becomes a dependable working system.
Analytical Robotics
Autonomous robot prototypes
Built working multi-robot prototypes and contributed across autonomy, electronics, hardware iteration, sourcing, and customer feedback.
UCD + Huawei Technologies
Optoelectronic switching & beam shaping
Modelled optical systems, developed beam-shaping approaches, and verified them with Python, Zemax OpticStudio, and experimental hardware.
UCD + Huawei Technologies
Beam-steering research
Worked as lead programmer with MATLAB, Python, and experimental hardware to develop and test beam-steering algorithms.
University College Dublin
B.Eng (Hons), Electronic Engineering
Studied programming, robotics, circuit design, modelling, and simulation across software and hardware systems.
06 / Contact
Let’s talk about an ambitious engineering problem.
For robotics, electronics, prototyping, or an interesting technical challenge, send me a note.
Direct line
kevinoflannagain
@gmail.com Build / test / improve
@gmail.com Build / test / improve