::Mike Blow Profile::

I am a freelance programmer, electronic engineer and musician with an MSc in Evolutionary Computing and Artificial Intelligence and several publications in the fields of robotics and arts technology.

I have been employed as a consultant on many projects and am a founder member of the award-winning architectural sound installation project 'Machines for Singing', and a visiting lecturer in Digital Arts at Brighton University and City College, Brighton.

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I work with diverse technologies including:

  • Computers and Microcontrollers: Arduino, Phidgets, PCs and Macs, robotics, sensor and actuator design, neural networks, evolutionary algorithms, swarm systems, DSP
  • Programming: Processing, Java, MAX/MSP, C/C++, JSP, Servlets, XML, RSS, Flash, PHP, MySQL, Postgres, MIDI
  • Sensors and Actuators: infra red and optical, real-time digital audio acquisition and processing, ultrasonics, infrasound and ambisonics, strain gauges, relay and transistor switching, reed switches, PWM control, motors and servos, accelerometers