Ben Marsh

Welcome to my website, here to showcase my projects. I am currently a Computer Science student at the University of York. The projects I have undertaken at university and in my own time are linked from this page, with descriptions and links to their GitHub repos.

• Palace - Online multiplayer card game Palace
  • Web Project
  • Node.js, HTML, CSS, JavaScript
• Let There Be Light - Smart home application to automate opening and closing curtains/blinds using RPi and Google Home
  • Hardware/Software Project
  • Node.js, Python
  • Raspberry Pi, Google Home
• Cereal Dispenser - Device to automatically dispense controlled portions of dry foods
  • 3D Design and Fabrication Project
  • Blender, Cura, STL, G-code, Python
  • 3D CAD, 3D Printing, AnyCubic i3 Mega S, Raspberry Pi
  • All components designed in CAD and 3D printed
• Programming of Micro-Controllers Project - Terminal-based game of Pong using Raspberry Pi
  • Hardware/Software Project
  • Python
  • Raspberry Pi communicating with PC over serial
  • Custom-built hardware including ADC and logic decoder
• Embedded Systems Project - Embedded System to perform basic image scanning using 3D rig and user I/O peripherals
  • Embedded Systems Project
  • C, Python
  • Mbed platform, 3D scanning rig with RGB sensor and stepper motors, keypad, LCD display, EEPROM
  • System provided manual movement (from keypad or PC), raster scanning, colour search, basic image recognition, basic image re-drawing
• Embedded Systems Design Contest - Genetic algorithm to map set of communication processes to platform
  • Software Project
  • Java
  • 2021 Winner
• Embedded Systems Implementation Assessment - Robot Simulator using ARM processor and FPGA hardware acceleration
  • Embedded Systems Project
  • C
  • Digilent Zybo Z7 (Xilinx Zynq-7000) - integrated ARM Cortex-A9 processor with Xilinx FPGA
  • UART, Ethernet, and HDMI for input, scenario fetch, and graphical output
  • Xilinx industrial tools - Vivado, Vitis, Vitis HLS
  • Simulated robots with varying movement, sensing, and collision behaviours
  • Simulation accelerated using custom hardware (FPGA) to achieve 60 FPS with 900 robots
• Final Year Project - A Novel Two-Hand-Inspired Hybrid Robotic End-Effector Fabricated using 3D Printing
  • 3D Design and Fabrication Project
  • 3D CAD, 3D Printing
  • Novel robotic end-effector for pick-and-place tasks
  • New design informed by existing work, building on successes and improving on limitations
  • Submitted to TAROS Conference 2022