Builder, botter, hacker and dreamer, Jeff Kramer (@Qworg) is a Research Programmer and roboticist at the National Robotics Engineering Center (NREC). He also breaks things and rebuilds them at HackPGH, Pittsburgh’s very own hacker space. He writes: “I expect the best out of people and out of myself. I love collaborative projects, the startup atmosphere, and doing great, world-changing things.”
Jeff is currently writing a book for APress, entitled Hacking the Kinect — with a focus on teaching algorithms and the depths of 3D data processing. Some of Jeff’s other projects include:
- Caffeine – an Internet Enabled Soda Machine
- PULSE – an Transient Electromagnetic Pulse (TEMP) Cannon
- FoozBot – a foosball (table soccer) playing robot
- SeaRAI – an unmanned surface vehicle
- Fuzzy Sensor Fusion for Navigation
- Bayesian Filters/Fuzzy Bayesian Filters
- OSCAR, the Occasionally Safe Carbon Arc Ray