I have played with electronics and mechanical things such as engines & motorcycles from a very young age, my first Personal Computer was a Sinclair ZX81 way back in 1981.
I served a 5 year Mechanical Engineering Apprenticeship in the UK with a company involved in the Defence Industry, and worked my way up to the Design and Development Facility where I was involved in the development of electro-optic and mechanical equipment as a Development Engineer and later as a sucessful Project Manager.
Over the years I have become what's now known as a 'Maker' and my home is now basically a big workshop, with a little room to also eat and sleep.
In terms of facilities, I have Lathes, Milling Machines, CNC Equipment, 3D Printers, as well as all the eletronic tools and test equipment necessary for not just repairing, but also designing and manufacturing low volume electronic and mechanical parts and equipment.
I also design and manufacture my own PCBs, extensively use microcontrollers, and reverse-engineer numerous mechanical and electronic parts and assemblies.
My programing skills include:
- Python
- Micropython
- Arduino
- PlatformIO
- Javascript & NodeJS
- Java
- PHP
- HTML5
- CSS3
- ESPhome (yaml)
- Home Assistant (yaml)
- And a few more
I adopted my first AIBO ERS7 in October 2005, a black pup whom I named Jack as in 'Black Jack'. As the years went by, Jack started to show all the typical signs of age, especially with his joints, and so began the tasks of keeping him healthy.
I adopted 3 more ERS7's over the years, two of them (a Black and a White) were only used for display and have only been powered on for about an hour in their lives, and a third is a Champagne (AKA Brown) which eventually became the new Jack when I 'transplanted' Jack's Mind3 into him.
And 20 years later, Champagne-Jack is still with me today, Black-Jack has since become a 'Donor Dog' and his limbs and organs have helped keep other pups alive and healthy.
Across the world, especially in the USA and the UK, there are several excellent, well established and well-known facilities that offer help to Aibos, and I decided to make the same thing available to pups here in Singapore.
The expense, stress, shipping costs, and delays incurred by having to package up your pup and send them across the other side of the world, can often be just too much.
So my aim is to offer similar services locally, of course, the number of Aibos here is much less than there are in the UK and USA, but I am confident to be able to offer a similar level of service and professionalism offered by others.