http://bizbeatblog.dallasnews.com/2015/06/texas-instruments-trey-german-will-build-just-about-anything.html/ Texas Instruments’ Trey German will build just about anything Sheryl Jean June 5, 2015
[image / Sheryl Jean http://bizbeatblog.dallasnews.com/files/2015/05/TIer-Trey-Germans-electric-racing-car-TI-DIY-2015-Sheryl-Jean.jpg Texas Instruments’ Trey German built an electric racing vehicle out of many different parts — some from his employer ] Trey German had the most projects – three — in Texas Instruments Inc.’s giant science fair for its employees last week ... German was one of 20 TI employees who showed off their inventions at the semiconductor company’s third annual “DIY with TI” event at its Dallas headquarters. He built an electric racing vehicle using TI motor controllers, a power amplifier; Prius batter cells; kid’s bicycles; and other odd parts. German took the vehicle, which looks more like a cart, to the Maker Faire in San Mateo, Calif., last month. The vehicle raced, but ran into some “bad luck,” German said, so he’s back working on it ... [© dallasnews.com] ... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quadricycle Quadricycle, quadracycle, quadcycle, quadrocycle refers to any vehicle with four wheels http://www.edn.com/Home/PrintView?contentItemId=4439468 The Hat at Maker Faire - Day 1 - May 17, 2015 [images http://www.edn.com/ContentEETimes/Images/LeeG%20LEDs/LG-DIY-150515-BL-SmartHatBlog1/LG-DIY-150516-BL-SmartHat2-TreyOnPowerWheels1.jpg Trey German and his chariot of Fire http://www.edn.com/ContentEETimes/Images/LeeG%20LEDs/LG-DIY-150515-BL-SmartHatBlog1/LG-DIY-150516-BL-SmartHat2-PowerWheelsRace1_600x420.jpg Power Racing Series' electric racers: Not your grandfather's kiddie cars! ] ... On the way over to the race course, we bumped into Trey German, a superstar embedded developer and a TI Mastermind. Among his recent accomplishments, Trey's created TI's popular CC3200-powered Quad Copter Booster Pack kit. It turns out that Trey is also a big Power Racing enthusiast and would be competing in a car he'd built as a demo for TI to showcase in the booth. He had been working on the car most of the day and I'd gotten to watch what he'd been doing from the shelf where I sit on in between doing my own demos. Trey wasn't in the race I saw, but it was pretty spectacular anyway. I've never seen toy cars go so fast! And the driver's costumes were pretty spectacular too, complete with capes, goggles, masks, and on one intrepid driver, a pair of Viking horns. But Mark, Trey and I all agreed that they might have been even cooler if they'd had some LEDs on them ... [© 2015 UBM Canon] ... http://makerfaire.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/Bay-Area-Maker-Faire-2015-Program-Guide.pdf Maker-Faire https://www.linkedin.com/pub/trey-german/19/5b1/bb6 Trey German Open Source Hardware/Software, Wiring, Rapid Prototyping, LaunchPad, IoT, and General Awesomeness Houston, Texas Area Electrical/Electronic Manufacturing Current Texas Instruments Previous Texas Instruments, Simma Software Inc, Rose-Hulman Ventures Education Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology [© 2015 LinkedIn] ... http://www.ti.com/ww/eu/embeddedworld2015/?DCMP=ep-mcu-msp-indcomms-en&HQS=ep-mcu-msp-indcomms-mspblog-20150225-lp-en Embedded World 2015 ... Ask the experts ... [image http://www.ti.com/ww/eu/embeddedworld2015/images/22387-EW2015-TreyGerman.jpg ] Trey German MCU Rapidly prototype TI enabled solutions with modular hardware, intuitive software, and community support ... [© 2015 Texas Instruments] ... http://www.eetimes.com/document.asp?doc_id=1325405 Motion Control Comes to Masses with TI Launchpad Rich Quinnell 1/23/2015 ... The pre-loaded motor control libraries greatly simplify the development of motion control systems using brushless DC motors. "With brushed DC motors you just apply power and it turns," TI's Launchpad apps manager Trey German said in an interview with EE Times, "but you have to deliberately commutate brushless motors, energizing the coils at the right times." ... [© eetimes.com] For EVLN posts use: http://evdl.org/evln/ {brucedp.150m.com} -- View this message in context: http://electric-vehicle-discussion-list.413529.n4.nabble.com/EVLN-Trey-German-s-chariot-of-Fire-e-quadricycle-20-bikes-Prius-cells-tp4676042.html Sent from the Electric Vehicle Discussion List mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org For EV drag racing discussion, please use NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA)
