Smart-building IoT
Homemade sensors put CO₂, temperature, and humidity onto a room view. A radiator reports back when a setting changes.
Follow a reading through the systemKevin O’Flannagain · Electronic engineer
On the workbench
I’m Kevin, an electronic engineer. These are my current projects, with the notes along the way.
The live 3D view needs WebGL. The enclosure studies page shows the same model as drawing sheets.
Air-sensor enclosure · design study Explore in 3D
Current projects
What I’m working on
Life OSSample day
A little progress today.
Check the USB opening15 min
Photograph the beans15 min
Choose a task. Make a little time for it.
Life OS
A private home for projects, daily plans, ideas, and garden records. Somewhere to decide what to do and remember what happened.
Try a day in Life OSFrom the notebook
Selected notes, dated when added.
Earlier engineering
Robots, optics, and a display I soldered by hand
Work from Analytical Robotics and UCD, plus the personal build that taught me the most about timing and wiring.
Autonomous robot prototypes
Two generations of a mobile robot: localisation, perception, planning, electronics, and the mechanical build.
Optical systems research
Beam steering, beam shaping, and optical switching, from Zemax models to the optical bench.
10×10 LED matrix + Pong
One hundred hand-soldered LEDs, multiplexed into a display that plays Pong with two physical controls.
Off the bench
Smaller builds and things that grow
A weekend LED cube, a Python game, and two growing records that are really about keeping notes.
Electronics · 2020
3×3×3 LED cube
A small hand-soldered cube made to learn multiplexing and animation.
Python · 2021
Scrolling space game
A Space Invaders-style game with movement, projectiles, enemies, and scrolling scenery.
Garden · 2026
Kitchen garden record
Dated photographs, planting notes, and weighed harvests from the 2026 kitchen garden.
Growing · experiments
Indoor growing trials
Microgreens, herbs, and propagation under lights, with photographs as the notebook.
About
A bit about me
I’m an electronic engineer working on smart-building systems at Hereworks. At home, I like making things that connect software to the physical world.
I studied at UCD, worked on optical research with Huawei, and helped build autonomous robot prototypes at Analytical Robotics. This site is a place for the projects I kept coming back to, and the photographs and notes along the way.