Matt Haywood

Matt Haywood

Introduction

I am currently studying for an MEng degree in Electronic and Computer Engineering at The Univeristy of Nottingham. I am a highly enthustiastic, motivated and ambitious student that loves to get stuck into any technology related project. In my spare time I like to build/fly drones, build websites and web applications/servers, 3D print, solder together electronics, complete online courses, photography and have completed many more projects. See projects here.

Key Skills

Research Experience

During Summer 2014, I spent four weeks building and programming a piece of equipment at the University of Nottingham Medical School. The aim of the project was to find a cheaper alternative for a spectrometer in MRI lung imaging. I was tasked with researching different ADC/DAC development modules which would be viable for the project. I eventually settled on the Digilent Analogue Discovery which was well within the budget and met all of the specifications required. I then used MATLAB to program directly to the module to allow a level of customisation required. The project required the module to output a pulsed signal and then receive a very small signal (echo) at a set time delay. I have also programmed a user interface within the MATLAB software which allowed the user to view the spectrum of the signal received and change the parameters for the signal transmission and acquisition. During this experience I learnt about ADC's/DAC, Spectral Analysis, MATLAB and hyper-polarising Xenon gas.

Areas of Interest

Artificial Intelligence Robotics
Drones Swarm Construction Drones
3D Printing Autonomy
RF Communications RADAR

Programming Skills

JavaScript HTML
CSS Node.JS
JQuery Python
MongoDB AJAX
MATLAB C++
Shell Scripting TensorFlow
Matplotlib Pandas
Numpy Qt
VTK Git

Sites

Projects

Drone project
During my summer Holiday I decided to build three drones. One which could do autonomous flight, another which could race and another which could lift heavy payloads.
Active BandPass Filter and Amplifier
For my second year project we were tasked with building a doppler radar speed gun. To digitise signal coming out of the randar module an amplifier and filter were designed so that only the signal we were intersted would be digitised.
Haywoods Properties Site
During Last summer I completed a web development course. On completion I wanted to put my new skills to practice by designing my own website which used a database.
Year 2 3D Model Viewer
During the Year 2 project sessions, we were tasked with designing and building a 3D model viewer using C++, VTK and QT. We were to import a model into the 3d model viewer which was an in house file format similar to the .obj file format.
DSLR Pan and Tilt
Spectrometer
GPS Router
After recently buying the ultimate GPS breakout board from Adafruit, I wanted to make a GPS router which would save my routes.
Home Automation Server
I decided to build a server which controls most of the smart devices in my house. I decided to do this because most smart devices are not compatible with each other and they require you to go onto different apps to control them. I wanted one place where I could control them from.
Automated Seed Hopper
I wanted a way of feeding my parrot automatically, so I designed and built an automated seed Hopper.
Year 1 Team Project
Personal Storage Site
I wanted a way of having 4TB of cloud storage for free. So I decided to build my own storage website.

Photography

Sites

Online Courses

Web Development - Udemy
I wanted a way of feeding my parrot automatically, so I designed and built a automated seed Hopper.
TensorFlow - Udemy
I wanted a way of feeding my parrot automatically, so I designed and built a automated seed Hopper.

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