Welcome to the online portfolio of Brian Carrigan, Electrical Engineer. My embedded hardware and software designs have been featured on numerous sites including Make Magazine, Hackaday, DangerousPrototypes, Reddit, and MicrocontrollerCentral. Please feel free to browse the write-ups of my past projects using the navigation bar, or select one of the following external pieces of work I have done.

Microcontroller Central Articles

• 24 More: Moving From Arduino to 32 Bits
• 24 More: Choosing a Toolchain
• 24 More: Exploring the Cortex Dev Board Cornucopia
• Due Pushes Arduino Up to the Cortex-M
• ROM-Based Drivers Make Interfaces Easy
• Evolve Better Control Solutions With Genetic Algorithms
• It’s Time for C++ in MCU Design
• C++ in MCUs: An N=1 Experiment
• Video Games Will Inspire a New Generation of Programmers & Engineers
• Solve the Project Maintenance Challenge

Featured Work

• Hackaday
  • The coming age of ARM chips for the hobbyist
  • USB business card packs an ARM processor
  • Evolutionary algorithms computes the best blackjack strategy
• DangerousPrototypes
• • Evolve better control solutions with genetic algorithms
  • USB business card
  • Reverse Geocaching Box
• Reddit
• • Business Card V2
  • Business Card V1
  • Genetic Blackjack Algorithm
• Make Magazine
• • PCB Business Card

Published Work

• A. Deese, B. Carrigan, E. Klein, E. Stein, “Simple Circuit-Based Solution to Problem of Residential Load Participation in Demand Response”, Proceedings of IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS), Seoul, Republic of Korea; May 2012.