Marcos聽Chaparro
Director at PALTA TECH S.A.
Argentina
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Top SchoolMarcos Chaparro is a seasoned electronics and embedded systems leader with 26 years of experience, currently serving as Director and CTO-level technologist at Palta Tech in Argentina. He specializes in power electronics and motor drives, with deep hands-on expertise in firmware, hardware design, and CAN/encoder integration demonstrated through significant contributions to the popular VESC motor controller ecosystem. Marcos has led end-to-end projects from schematic and PCB design to production and assembly at small enterprise and startup levels, and has overseen systems for automotive, medical, defense and aerospace applications. He combines strategic direction with low-level optimization鈥攁dding safety, performance and novel sensor support like Sin/Cos and MT6816 encoders to real-world products. Notably, he created the open Puma board for FreeEMS and has a track record of solving runaway and thermal-safety issues in high-power motor controllers. Based in Argentina, he pairs academic foundations in electronic engineering with a practical, production-first mindset that consistently moves experimental designs into reliable deployed systems.
26 years of coding experience
Electronic Engineering, Hardware design, Programming, Communications., Electronic Engineering, Hardware design, Programming, Communications. at Universidad Tecnol贸gica Nacional
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Github Skills (17)
c-language10
controller10
c1110
spi10
c1710
sys10
system-integration10
sensor-fusion10
can-bus10
embedded10
serial-communication10
stm10
cprogramming-language10
qt9
user-interface9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
vedderb/bldc
Dec 2018 - Nov 2022
The VESC motor control firmware
Role in this project:
Embedded Systems Engineer
Embedded Systems EngineerContributions:99 commits, 34 PRs, 127 comments in 4 years
Contributions summary:Marcos primarily contributed to the embedded firmware of the VESC motor controller. Their work focused on modifying and extending the hardware configuration, including implementing features such as individual IGBT temperature monitoring, support for a wheel speed sensor, adding support for a serial display, and integrating support for a torque sensor. The user also added support for MT6816 SPI encoder, improving performance, and safety features, with a strong emphasis on code optimization, performance, and preventing runaway situations.
firmware
vedderb/vesc_tool
Mar 2019 - May 2022
The source code for VESC Tool. See vesc-project.com
Role in this project:Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT Developer
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT DeveloperContributions:17 commits, 14 PRs, 22 comments in 3 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Marcos primarily focused on enhancing the VESC Tool, a software suite for controlling electric speed controllers. They implemented support for new encoder types, including Sin/Cos encoders, and added features related to CAN bus communication, enabling native CAN bus support on Linux systems. Additionally, the user modified the UI for real-time data, and implemented new features like Pedal Assist support, and fault code reporting, demonstrating their work on embedded systems and motor control.
vesc
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