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| 5 | description: Systems Engineering / Computer Science @ UIUC Grainger (2025) |
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| 21 | <b>Hello!</b> I'm <i>Josh Stockin</i>, a student majoring in <b>Systems |
| 22 | Engineering</b> and minoring in <b>Computer Science</b> at <u>UIUC |
| 23 | Grainger</u>. I'm a massive nerd and have spent roughly the past decade |
| 24 | engaging in software and embedded systems engineering hobby work, having begun |
| 25 | with game development and 3D animation stuffs on the Roblox platform sometime |
| 26 | around 2012. When I'm not studying or working, I'll be reading or doing hobby |
| 27 | projects. I try to work on hobby projects as much as I can, but I'm a |
| 28 | full-time student and struggle to find time. |
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| 31 | Through prior hobby projects, I have practical and applicable experience in |
| 32 | programming and design for robotics and embedded systems, general user |
| 33 | applications, tool/utility applications, web development, and more, with |
| 34 | programming languages including C/C++, Python, and Lua. I've taken several CTE |
| 35 | courses on woodworking, AutoCAD and Fusion 360 drafting, and 3D printing. |
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| 39 | <figcaption>Closeup shot of the removable electronics board controlling the snow plow.</figcaption> |
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| 42 | I graduated from *Reed-Custer High School* in May 2022. At RCHS, I earned the |
| 43 | **Illinois State Scholar** award and became a finalist for the **National Merit |
| 44 | Scholarship**. I volunteered for the RCHS Recycling Club and participated in the |
| 45 | Math Team. On the April 2021 SAT, I earned a 790 in math and 730 in EBRW (for a |
| 46 | composite 1520). During high school, I took several courses at *Joliet Junior |
| 47 | College* part-time and for dual credit. In fall 2022 I entered my first |
| 48 | semester at *UIUC* with 47 transferred credit hours. I recently completed a |
| 49 | firmware engineering internship at **<i>Milwaukee Electric Tool</i>** for the |
| 50 | summer of 2023 and have accepted an offer for another in 2024. |
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| 54 | <figcaption>Snow plow parked in driveway sometime around early 2021.</figcaption> |
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| 57 | As of 12/2023, current WIP personal projects include: |
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| 59 | - *Embedded/Firmware* |
| 60 | - The next revision of the RC snow plow (new electrical board, new motors and |
| 61 | motor controllers, sensors and peripherals, rewritten firmware) |
| 62 | - ePaper display (EPD) driver firmware. Lightweight graphics library, drop-in |
| 63 | hardware/serial communications wrappers. Planned support for ESP-IDF |
| 64 | (ESP32), Arduino |
| 65 | - A handheld carbon dioxide (CO2) monitoring/plotting/analytics device |
| 66 | (ESP32, ePaper display, 3D printed housing) |
| 67 | - *Software* |
| 68 | - zydeco — Future idea for a procedural generation world simulator. Graphics |
| 69 | programming experiment. |
| 70 | - resty-gitweb — Git version control interface for HTTP, written for |
| 71 | OpenResty, uses libgit2 (live prototype at https://git.joshstock.in) |
| 72 | - s3-bsync — Python CLI tool for file backup and bidirectional syncing |
| 73 | between local filesystem and Amazon S3 |
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| 75 | I'll try over the next few months to populate the Blog and Projects pages with |
| 76 | information on these. Progress on each is very sporadic because I'm a full-time |
| 77 | student and worker. If I'm not working on these I'm probably reading |
| 78 | something. I finally got a copy of K&R 😃 |
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| 80 | Oh, and I'm also a survivor of [severe scoliosis](/static/images/scoliosis.png). |
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| 82 | Thanks for reading! You can best contact me via email at |
| 83 | [josh@joshstock.in](mailto:josh@joshstock.in). I usually reply within a day or |
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