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Darren M Lewis

Design Manager for technically biased innovative consumer electronic device design and development. An award winning technical design engineer, represented the UK in multiple robotics competitions

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Dyson Hackathon 2017

MINI DRUM barbecue & smoker

Hosting Arduino workshops

Glass coffee table

Speaking at the Festival of Education

SI Unit Playing Card Revision Aid

Dominos pizza box flyer

Satay custom BBQ

Large oil drum BBQ

How to build a Pizza oven

Dyson Challenge 2013: Flying

AR sports glasses concept

Dyson Challenge 2012: Ball

Immaterials; Wifi RSSI

EDF Advert Belgium Football Games

World Skills 2011

Babel Create (Kinect)

AAWTA Kinetica

Heineken beer robot

Ellie Goulding music video

Eurobot 2009 2010 2011

ASL Coanda Effect UAV

21st November 201721st November 2017 dalewisUncategorised

Dyson Hackathon 2017

I competed in and won the first Dyson hackathon with my team. We designed, build, tested and presented an automatic drawing machine hacked from a Dyson desk lamp using an Arduino and some open sourceContinue reading

29th November 201625th July 2017 dalewisUncategorised

MINI DRUM barbecue & smoker

Using Minidrum you can slow cook melt-in-your-mouth smoked meat or just have a barbecue. Minidrum is also portable, inexpensive and looks cool!

26th October 20162nd January 2017 dalewisUncategorised

Hosting Arduino workshops

I have hosted Arduino workshops at Dyson and externally since 2012. Arduino Workshop Part 1: An overview: Aimed at Design Engineers who want to “add another tool to their box”; the Part 1 Workshop givesContinue reading

26th June 201625th July 2017 dalewisUncategorised

Glass coffee table

Designed and hand made glass table. Steel base, turned aluminium legs, UV bonded glass panel, made by hand from scratch.  

26th April 201623rd October 2016 dalewisUncategorised

Speaking at the Festival of Education

https://worldskillsuk.org/news-and-events/our-news/worldskills-uk-news/skills-champion-engages-teachers-at-festival-of-education Skills Champion Engages Teachers at Festival of Education Skills Champion Darren Lewis spoke at the Festival of Education to showcase his success since WorldSkills London 2011 Wednesday, 07 Sep 2016 Skills Champion Darren LewisContinue reading

25th March 201623rd July 2017 dalewisUncategorised

SI Unit Playing Card Revision Aid

26th August 201429th November 2016 dalewisUncategorised

Dominos pizza box flyer

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/weird-news/pizza-box-plane-engineer-darren-2261971   http://www.instructables.com/id/Dominos-Pizza-Box-Airplane-35/  

26th June 201429th November 2016 dalewisUncategorised

Satay custom BBQ

A custom made to order BBQ for satay chicken skewers

26th June 201425th July 2017 dalewisUncategorised

Large oil drum BBQ

http://www.instructables.com/id/How-to-make-an-Oil-Drum-BBQ-Smoker/

26th September 201324th July 2017 dalewisUncategorised

How to build a Pizza oven

https://www.instructables.com/id/How-to-make-a-homemade-Pizza-Oven/

26th July 201325th July 2017 dalewisUncategorised

Dyson Challenge 2013: Flying

Awards won: 1st place overall Fastest to complete the course Press articles: http://careers.dyson.com/story/we_never_stop_solving_obsessive_engineering/ http://inventorspot.com/articles/dyson_engineers_make_flying_objects_their_time

13th December 201225th July 2017 dalewisUncategorised

AR sports glasses concept

Design the next generation of Oakley eye wear that will allow an athlete to enhance their performance. Visually track lap times and compare personal bests during training and competing. Real-time GPS, Position Tracking performance eyeContinue reading

26th July 20122nd January 2017 dalewisUncategorised

Dyson Challenge 2012: Ball

Award won: Most ambitious design http://www.rs-online.com/designspark/electronics/blog/dyson-ball-challenge-2012

13th March 20122nd January 2017 dalewisUncategorised

Immaterials; Wifi RSSI

This project graphically demonstrates the strength of background Wifi signals in London and Bournemouth. Images were captured using a long exposure photograph of our prototype that consisted of an Arduino, a Wifi shield & white LEDs.Continue reading

25th October 20112nd January 2017 dalewisUncategorised

EDF Advert Belgium Football Games

EDF Advert Belgium Football Games

25th October 201113th December 2016 dalewisUncategorised

World Skills 2011

Largest skills competition ever to be held 1000 competitors From 50 countries/regions 45 different skills Over 200 000 visitors Largest event ever held in London Excel Opening & closing ceremonies hosted in the O2 Press:Continue reading

26th June 20111st December 2016 dalewisUncategorised

Babel Create (Kinect)

A concept for an Arduino shield which translates data from the Kinect sensor into stripped down, simplified data that can be used easily with Arduino.    

26th February 201113th December 2016 dalewisUncategorised

AAWTA Kinetica

26th September 20102nd January 2017 dalewisUncategorised

Heineken beer robot

Events attended: Kinetica Art Fair 2010 Google Zeitgeist 2010 SE1 nightclub London 2010 Middlesex University Degree Show 2010 NEXT Exhibition, Aarhus Denmark 2010 Watch the video below from 29sec. Watch the video below from 4.10min

26th September 20102nd January 2017 dalewisUncategorised

Ellie Goulding music video

Worked for Moritz Waldemeyer on the special effects for this music video. (Assembling the Olympus semi-circle structure + electronics assembly). http://www.waldemeyer.com/ellie-goulding-lights-music-video

26th July 20102nd January 2017 dalewisUncategorised

Eurobot 2009 2010 2011

Eurobot 2011: Chess-up Awarded with lowest cost robot Eurobot 2010: Feed the World Awarded with 8th place in the world Eurobot 2009: Temples of Atlantis Awarded with 22nd place

26th June 200924th July 2017 dalewisUncategorised

ASL Coanda Effect UAV

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