Comment by eggy

I am currently working on a control system from low-level, bare metal to high-level HMI/GUI for a cool, new hoist primarily for shows, but with applications in other industries. Shooting for high-integrity, safety-critical certifications above and beyond similar machines. I have been doing electromechanical stuff since the late 80s/early 90s. Hydraulic, pneumatic, electro-mechanical, air muscles, etc. I did animatronics (Christmas windows back in the day in NYC). Before Arduino, I went from purely relay logic circuits to the Parallax Basic Stamp in the 90s to Pic chips, to other 8-16-32-bit chips. I am, we are, looking for an Ada/SPARK2014 software engineer/developer for this control system. Any HN'ers with SPARK2014 experience? I've reached out to AdaCore too. I have been a CNC and manual machinist (built my own CNC router table machine in 2002), welder, technical diver, industrial rope access tech (SPRAT certified). I am currently enamored with Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) as something more than mechatronics. I have been riding motorcycles since the 80s, but now the highly integrated software on motos is next level. My current bike (2021 KTM Duke 890R) has power throughout the gears/rpms and amazing ride modes with supermoto ABS settings, and I am looking at the new Ducati 698 Hypermotard. The Ducati's software uses inputs and inertial motion sensors are integrated to allow beginner/intermediate riders to more confidently wheelie or do supermoto slide outs of the rear tire. Human-Machine Interface taking on a whole new meaning without the cyborg trope.