Sean Hodgins
Founder at Idle Hands Development
Brantford, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolSean Hodgins is an inventive mechanical engineer and founder with 12 years’ experience turning ideas into open-source hardware and wearable prototypes through his company Idle Hands Development. With an M.A.Sc. focused on fault detection using neural networks and AI and a B.Tech in automotive technology, he blends rigorous academic research with hands-on circuit, PCB and mechanical design. His Peltier Ring gained Popular Science attention and led to talks and exhibits in the wearable tech scene, showing an ability to move concepts into public-facing demos. Comfortable with end-to-end productization—from vision and prototyping to video storytelling on his YouTube channel—he often documents and shares designs to accelerate community learning. Based in Brantford, Ontario, he also brings practical industry experience from roles at Harvest Robotics and Honda R&D, applying automotive and robotics rigour to consumer-facing inventions.
12 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Applied Science (M.a. Sc.), Mechanical Engineering, Master of Applied Science (M.a. Sc.), Mechanical Engineering at McMaster University
English
Github Skills (32)
arduino-uno9
displays9
microchip9
atmega9
arduino9
esp-idf9
esp329
makers8
samd218
pid8
segment6
pid-control6
mavlink6
raspberry-pi-zero5
neural-network5
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
idlehandsdev/pixopixel
Jan 2018 - Jul 2018
PIXO Pixel is a 16 x 16 RGB LED display that runs off of an ESP32
Contributions:17 commits, 1 PR, 14 pushes in 6 months
esp32
idlehandsdev-backup/samd_hcc_mod
May 2018 - Nov 2018
A SAMD21G18 based easy to solder module.
Contributions:35 commits, 2 PRs, 21 pushes in 6 months
soldermakersavratmelarduino-uno
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