Accessible Automation - LEAP Links Video Conference

Technology can be bewildering, but the open source electronics and software movement is making it easy for creators, inventors and hobbyists to use technology in new ways. The Arduino is a lowcost, open-source microcontroller that can sense, compute and act with ease and power, and its being used around the world by teachers, students, and professionals. In this class we will learn how to use an arduino to perform simple automation (for convenience or fun). We will see how the Arduino can be wired to a sensor and actuator, and how it can be programmed to make decisions and take actions. By the end, David hopes students will be excited about the creative possibilities afforded by electronics.

Dr Inglis grew up in a small town in rural Canada, then received a Bachelor of Science in Engineering Physics from The University of Alberta in 2001 and a PhD in Electrical Engineering from Princeton University in 2007. He was an Australian Postdoctoral Fellow and research associate in the Physics Department at Macquarie University from 2008 to 2013. He is now a Senior Lecturer in the Engineering Department at Macquarie University and has led the Mechatronic Engineering program for the past 3 years. Dr Inglis research interests lie in microfabrication for medicine and biology. He is well known in the microfluidics community for work on passive particle separations, but has published many high impact papers on topics across micro and nanofluidics.