Colin O'Flynn

@oflynn.com

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Colin is a huge nerd. Hardware hacking, open-source hardware, electronics design, academic stuff, dog stuff in some order. Assistant Prof @ Dalhousie Uni, advisor/co-founder NewAE Technology Inc.

A seal sleeping in the sun.
A seal scratching their ear and then looking.
Snowbirds (Canadian aerobatic plane team) in the sky
A Claude LLM conversation where I ask for a chocolate chip cookie recipe to prevent it from trying to fall back to a less powerful model.
A demo showing the stm32f4 dumping successfully using a more reliable technique
A slide showing ChipWhisperer hardware with the target device
Joe Grand and Lennert Wouters on an stage in front of a slide
A dog on a beach
A dog running around on a beach on McNabs Island near Halifax
A Princess Auto (Canadian Harbour Freight basically) store catalog with "trailer swift" written on it, from the in store department.
A still from happy gilmore with the text "Happy learned how to html/js/websocket - uh oh"
A quick sequence of demonstrations of the MapleLink tool at https://github.com/colinoflynn/maplelink - all demos are listed in the repo.
A circular saw being placed on some pegs screwed into the wall
An eagle landing on a tree
A circuit board soldered to the back of a 2" ceramic antenna
A gmail "is:unread" search
A text slide saying "turing complete things" and listing: C/C++ Arm Assembly Code PowerPoint Excel The x86 “mov” instruction
A LCSC (electronics parts website) search result for "ESD clamp", showing a mechanical C-clamp
An embedded board with a power supply in the background set to 2.7V (many embedded systems run at 3.3V, so 2.7V is lower). A tool in the foreground has clips going to the embedded board.
A screenshot of a text file saying "Problems have been reported trying to import ARC E00 files into ArcView on Windows 95 computers. Related tables do not import into ArcView. It is not a problem on UNIX, Windows 3.1 or Windows NT platforms. If you experience this problem you can use our DXF/DBF product which contains the tables in dBase format. DBase files can be imported into ArcView. "
A specific RC receiver (AR630+) showing a price of $145 CAD
An RC plane in a tree
A hobby zone AeroScout rc plane
A small RC plane flying around
A screenshot of a manual of a S100 charger, showing that if the input voltage on USB-C is 20V it assumes the power supply is 81-100W.
a screenshot of compiler explorer showing C code on the left, and assembly on the right. The C code on the left has a statement that is optimized away in the assembly version.
A steel pipe cut into short rings, welded to look like it's being cut in the air
A lighthouse as a Christmas tree topper
An access point with a blinking LED
A LM5072 POE controller with a hole melted in it and a melted leg
A lobster in front of a few more lobsters
A 12kV / 5kVA pole transformer
A pot of crushed tomatoes being poured into another pan
An alibaba sponsored ad for a "wholesale tunnel boring machine" priced at $672K CAD.
A chip with magnet (thin wire) being used to access various test points.
A youtube video from Langer EMV, with my dog (Bergen's) face on the silkscreen in a PCB.
A dog is walking in water and shakes off while still in the water.
A Puffin diving underwater.
A tap broken in a hole, but with a hole drilled down the center.
A broken tap.
A dog waiting to eat a triple deck burger cut in half