About Me

Hello! I'm Lawrence and I love to take everything apart. No matter what I'm tearing through, an older printer, a piece of 80's test equipment, or a coffee maker, I'm determined to see how everything around me works and always desire to add to my parts bin hoard. Going hand-in-hand with my love of teardowns and salvaging is the great pleasure I take in using only what I have in front of me to solve the engineering problems I encounter.

Where I am today as an engineer can be traced back to helping my grandfather pack rifle bullets in his basement full of tools and everything little me needed to begin tinkering and making my own creations. As soon as I began tearing apart my father's ham radio equipment (I think the top of his head flew off when he came in and saw me with a handful of screws in one hand and the back panel of some piece of equipment in the other) he started buying me old computers and other electronics to keep my hands busy. As you would have guessed, this lead me into pursuing an engineering career.

Grabbing a beer in Tallinn, Estonia.

My background is in mechanical engineering, and I am currently pursuing graduate studies at Carnegie Mellon University, focusing in robotics. My experience in electrical and computer science is both self taught and supported by classes and internships. Most of my personal projects revolve around robotics, leading to knowledge of embedded systems, power electronics, motor control, computer vision, and so on.

I hope to use this blog not just as a place for me to produce some sort of documentation for myself on my random projects, but to help out others who endeavor to learn about robotics, electronics, design, and so on. Enjoy!