Light-activated Electronic Résumé

I've always been a little bit of a smart alec and sometimes can be a little impractical. A couple years ago while job hunting, I thought of this clever way of sending my resume, as it was frequently requested, in "electronic format." I'm sure this isn't exactly what HR departments had in mind.

Notes:

* This is entirely my design
* The circuit is completely off until exposed to light, giving it a long shelf-life
* I wrote the MIDI processor/sequence-generator in Python.
* The board uses a cooperative multitasking RTOS that I designed and wrote in C. Real-time performance was necessary for the music and the rest of the application is still responsive while music is playing.
* Since making this, I have worked a couple contracts in the electronics industry.

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• electronics
• resume
• circuit
• A-team
• midi

[JoeR14]

Pretty Cool I must say! How much did it cost to build?

[AlanAshton]

The number I seem to remember is 18$/unit. I think that included the cost of my circuit boards -- there tends to be a moderate fixed setup fee. The I can't imagine the bill of materials costing more than about 10$/unit (the LCD displays were surplus and cost me less than $5)

[staticbb]

AYYEEEE TEEEEEM. Sweet machine dude. That would be a swell machine to device to add to the old portfolio.