DIY guy doing lots of motion control system design at home and professionally. Have designed vision systems, engine controllers, robotic tape libraries, CNC controllers, eddy current sensors for industrial control and space flight, lots of other stuff FPGA design, micro controllers, and RF stuff...
Have CNC'ed a couple of mill's, working on a pick-n-place machine.
Got a 60 watt store bought laser for doing prototypes, really helps with enclosures and solder paste stencils. At present lusting for a CNC lathe, will probably buy one if I can scrape up the bones, otherwise I'll do a conversion...
Currently a Python junky, recovering PERL addict, use mostly C/C++ for embedded projects.