Kevin O’Flannagain · Electronic engineer

Hardware, and the software that makes it useful.

I work on smart-building systems at Hereworks. This site keeps the notes from my own projects: an air-quality sensor network for a real house, autonomous robots, optical research, LED builds, and a kitchen garden that gets weighed.

Rendered exploded view of the air-sensor enclosure: translucent green printed parts around the sensor board

Live model · air-sensor enclosure · drag to orbit Open the studies

Now Hereworks · smart-building systems

Devices, controls, networks, and software that have to work together inside a building.

Building Air-quality nodes for a two-floor home

ESP32-C3 sensors, AWS IoT, a React room view, and one radiator on the control loop.

Next Printing the first display enclosure

Three housings modelled at true size. Five caliper checks stand between the studies and a print.

One current project with several moving parts, and earlier work I still come back to.

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.

Three autonomous robot prototypes with exposed electronics

Analytical Robotics2020

Autonomous robot prototypes

Two generations of a mobile robot: localisation, perception, planning, electronics, and the mechanical build.

Optical components and fibre cables on an optical bench

UCD + Huawei2018–2019

Optical systems research

Beam steering, beam shaping, and optical switching, from Zemax models to the optical bench.

Green LED matrix being inspected through a magnifying glass

Personal build2020

10×10 LED matrix + Pong

One hundred hand-soldered LEDs, multiplexed into a display that plays Pong with two physical controls.

Code and physical things, together

Electronic engineer, UCD graduate, happiest when a change in software shows up on a bench.

Current work · Hereworks

Smart buildings and IoT

I work at Hereworks on smart-building systems: the devices, controls, networks, and software that need to work together inside a building.

I studied Electronic Engineering at UCD, then worked on optical research with Huawei and on autonomous robot prototypes at Analytical Robotics. The projects here are the ones I kept photographs and notes for, so each page reads as a record of what was actually built rather than a finished-product claim.

Now

Hereworks

Smart-building systems and IoT

Alongside it, the home IoT platform is where I try ideas end to end.

2020

Analytical Robotics

Autonomous robot prototypes

Autonomy software, electronics, and hardware iteration across two robot generations.

2018–2019

UCD + Huawei Technologies

Optical systems research

Beam steering, beam shaping, and switching, from simulation to the optical bench.

Ask about a project, or compare notes

Email is the quickest way to reach me. I am also on GitHub and LinkedIn.