> LukeCole

This site is the OAP home page of Luke Cole, a technology and Linux enthusiast, autonomous mobile robotics engineer, scientific software engineer, security engineer (aka ethical hacker) and web entrepreneur, who works with leading organisations such as [WWW]NICTA, CSIRO, ANU and Seeing Machines. Luke Cole is the founder of [WWW]coleTEK, an automated online business. He is also a primary developer of [WWW]DROS, a robotic software library; the new leading maintainer of [WWW]PICPrg, a Linux PIC microprocessor programmer; and the author of [WWW]phpSite, a flexible generic web site developer.

Please visit [WWW]Luke Cole's web site for information about Luke Cole's web sites, major projects, experience, research (mostly robotic), publications and public data.

Useful links:

* [WWW]InsectBot - a omni-directional robot with vertical motion for the stereo fish-eye cameras, which will be used to simulate UAV's. NOTE: diameter of robot is 0.4 metres, i.e. not small as the name InsectBot suggests.

* [WWW]MiC Robot - pronounced "mick", meaning Mobile interactive Computer is being developed as a cheap research platform for advancements in robotics by research hobbiests. The mobile robot will be upgradable and reconfigurable using DROS as the base software and designed to fit ATX style motherboards.

* [WWW]ParallelPort PWM/Encoder Linux Driver - a poor-mans motor controller software driver

* [WWW]PICPrg - a fast Linux command line (or ncurses) program, to program any Microchip PIC microcontroller using the PC parallel port interface. Any parallel port PIC programmer hardware can be used, simply edit the configuration file or use the ncurses configuration menu.

* [WWW]USB Missile Launcher - a user space Linux driver to control the the M&B USB Missile Launcher. Simple C Implemenation.