ATOMKEY LABS

Systems Integration
and Engineering
from concept and design to output


Systems Integration
and Engineering
from concept and design to output

This is my personal website ~ I decided after years of thought to create a place to upload some of my data footprint. It's a convenience for both myself, and for reference to others that I may wish to share with. If you are here by chance, all the better. I don’t have sign up forms or anything to sell so there’s no data collection from my website. Please feel free to take a look around. I add content as time permits or need requires.

** Update October 2022: I have removed all of my YouTube content. The platform has become so polarized that even my technical and how-to videos suffer viewership. I devianted on my normal content, and uploaded two somewhat politcal views from both sides. One of those sides cost my channel the normal traffic it would see to barely anything. Enough is enough. I have adapted my main website here to focus on new material on my YouTube channel.

The new content will focus on postmodern imperialism. Wow - what a massive leap from my technical background. But it has become so far out of hand that everyone of any decent conscience has to start tackling the issue and bringing some light into the room for a solution to it.
My original content will make its way to Rumble as time permits. That's years of work to re-do.

Daily distract

I edit this from time to time. It has a few things of interest for the sake of selection to pass boredom.

* I might also post user requests here from time to time. But usually those will be in the Recycle Bin main menu link on the left.
People sometimes ask how and why I explore so many different subject and projects. The answer to the first part is reading and curiosity. That just comes from wanting to make things I imagine and solve problems. For the last part, what I use to accomplish my tasks means tools.

They range from actual mechanical tools like you find in a traditional workshop, to software, experience with design and strategy, troubleshooting and critical thinking. And it also helps to either own or have access to specialized equipment like 3D printers, lathes and mills, robotic parts, quality drones, and lasers/optics.

From a software point of view I use many programs. For artwork and graphic design I have all of the Affinity graphics tools, GIMP, InkScape, Corel Painter, MS Paint (give credit for pixels), Adobe Premier, Autodesk SketchBook Pro, OBS Studio, and of course Blender for 3D printing.

For programming I use Embarcadero C++ Builder, Arduino IDE, Eclipse, Python, HexEdit (HxD), Notepad and Notepad++, and a command line of course.

For audio I have a lot of actual hardware synths, modular synths, sequencers, AVS4YOU, Audacity, and the old Cakewalk Sonar Platinum for a DAW. Some of these are free to download and use, and other are paid for programs.

For mapping I use Esri ArcMap 10.8, Google Earth for portability, a DJI Mavic drone for imagery and Drone Deploy for actual topographic imaging, overlays, and planning for clients.

For electrical projects that comes down to components, materials, and to tools to make them work together. So for the most part, when it comes to electronic projects you need a great soldering iron, and really good multimeter, and it sure is nice to have an oscilloscope. Everything else is pliers, screwdrivers, and electrical tape…

Having a really great toolset of software is an amazing asset and opens up exploration and creativity. But having hardware allows for the human interface aspect. Direct contact with the material goes a long way to bringing the imagination into the real world. So, being able to print parts has been a joy since I started working with it.

* If you aren't learning then you're maintaining your dumb.
You have probably heard the word cyber applied to all sorts of things. You may be surprised to find out where the word came from and what it has to do with from the founder's point of view. This is an amazing read and just as much a necessity as William Gibson's Neuromancer, except that this is real science and not science fiction. I strongly encourage you to go take a look at this book. Click HERE for a link to Amazon for it.
* Is it really random? I try and find something interesting. Sometimes that depends on the viewer.
So you probably know what tensors are by now if you are interested in programming. Especially so if topics like machine learning is on your list of reading material. Things like scikit and TensorFlow may ring a bell, and you might have even experimented with many of the open toolsets out there for download. But getting you hands dirty with coding tensors directly might help the understanding process a little. Here's a video on working with C++ and tensors:

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