collin hamilton

electrical systems // texas a&m

I make machines make sense.

I’m Collin—an electrical systems engineering student building at the seam between hardware, software, and the people who run both.

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CH // SYSTEM MAP interactive trace
input / logic / output control path

turning physical inputs into deliberate, observable behavior.

controlsautomationsignalsinterfaces

01 // SELECTED WORK

Built for the real world.

Useful systems survive contact with the hardware, the operator, and the weird edge case at 2 a.m.

01

industrial automation

PLC / SQL Configurator

A practical desktop toolkit for browsing PLC tags, configuring data collection, and carrying production signals into SQL Server.

  • Allen-Bradley + Beckhoff
  • Python / PySide6
  • SQL Server
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02

native macOS utility

Caffeinate

A tiny menu-bar app for controlling macOS power assertions, with timers, battery-aware limits, and launch-at-login support.

  • native macOS
  • power APIs
  • menu-bar UX
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WORKBENCH // IN PROGRESS

Always prototyping the next useful thing.

embedded systems physical alerts + event-driven control

Connecting real-time messages to clear, testable outputs on embedded hardware.

machine intelligence vision that closes the loop

Exploring camera, OCR, and quality workflows where a result has to trigger action.

02 // OPERATING PRINCIPLES

The best interface is the one that makes a complicated system feel obvious.

I like work that moves across layers: reading a sensor, shaping the data, writing the control logic, and giving a person a clean way to understand what the system is doing.

01embedded control 02industrial data 03signal processing 04operator interfaces 05machine vision 06native tools
current electrical systems engineering location college station, texas bias build it, measure it, improve it

03 // OPEN CHANNEL

Have a hard system to make simple?

collin.hamilton@tamu.edu