Andrew Serra

An Engineer, and his brain dump.

  • Snickerdoodle FPGA Project: Image Processing and Position Visualization using Glasgow Linux

    The goal of this project is to use the Snickerdoodle board. This board is unique as it has an FPGA on board that can be utilized. This is a Xilinx product and we have used Vivado to generate our IP core and flash the device. Below there is a demo video of our product. Although…

  • Designing the data flow of a Ping Pong Tracker on a Embedded Device

    At the Rochester Institute of Technology, I am currently a senior in Computer Engineering Technology. As a final step before graduation, we have one class with one task, design a ping pong ball tracker using an embedded device. To solve this task we’ve created a group of five engineers with different internship experiences and skills.…

  • Service Metrics Project, A Step-by-Step Journey to Analytics Development

    This project is aimed to collect metrics about backend systems running remotely and display them. The goal is to first be able to deploy the project using docker on any device. After this is successful, create a managed service on Amazon Web Services to be able to allow others to easily start collecting data about…

  • The New World of The Economy of Things

    The New World of The Economy of Things

    The title of this post might sound quite similar to the term Internet of Things. Are they related? Of course. That means we should be starting by defining and understanding what the Internet of Things (aka IoT) is and how it has changed our daily lives. The definition: An autonomous collection of devices that utilize…

  • Software System Design Dilemma: Monolithic vs. Microservices

    Starting any project requires considering how to start building the perfect idea in your head. Probably everyone out there would immediately head into development and enjoy actually making the product without thinking about the next possible steps. Could this project lead to something bigger? Each project has its own personality. One could be more serious,…

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