Danyal Medley Email & Phone Number

Adrian, Mi, Us

Adrian, Michigan, United States

I started developing electronics and firmware for Planewave in 2012. After many years supporting them as a consultant, I joined the team in May of 2017. My primary responsibility is in the development of system electronics and associated firmware for the large array of technology used in the telescope mounts and optical systems we develop. These technologies include direct drive motor control, brushed motor control, communications, high power heating and cooling, and other electro-mechanical control systems.

Torrance, California, United States

I designed and developed control systems for consumer telescopes. I was involved in all areas of telescope system design and eventually took on the role of principal engineer for technology. During my nearly 15 years there, I was responsible for creating the core technology for a self-aligning telescope, which I began to develop in 2004. After years of advocating for this technology as a potential breakthrough for amateur astronomy, I lead the development of the first stand-alone commercial telescope to use star field pattern recognition: the SkyProdigy, in 2011. I developed the pattern recognition algorithm, control and imaging electronics, along with the firmware. I received two patents for their development.SkyProdigy was also the winner of the 2011 CES Innovations Award for Design and Engineering Excellence and a Popular Mechanics Editor's Choice Award winner at CES 2011.Other significant contributions included developing WiFi hardware for telescope control, and collaborating with John Kennedy, the developer of Pocket Universe (the first Astronomy app on the Apple App Store), to develop Celestron’s first WiFi controlled telescope.

Primarily responsible for firmware development of thermal printer products

This was my first position as a firmware engineer. I was tasked with porting our proprietary thermal printer operating system code from an intel 80286 to 386sx platform. This primarily involved rewriting start-up code, register changes, memory mapping, and implementing shadow RAM operation for firmware. I worked with custom make files and compiler directives to support the large OS and target options.Later I assisted in porting to an Intel i960 platform, and writing some auxiliary firmware for sensor reading and interfacing to dual-port RAM used to drive printhead data. This was also my first experience programming CPLDs that were used to generate printer data and timing to the thermal printheads.

Mwcs-38, El Toro, Ca

MOS 2831 - Microwave Communications Technician.Boot Camp: MCRD San Diego / Camp PendletonSchool: MCCES 29 PalmsFirst(/Last) Duty Station: MWCS-38, El Toro.I took Hollywood Marine to the next level. Aside from a handful of yearly training ops that took me to some neat places, I was station in CA for my 4 years. Almost everyone I know got a stint in Okinawa, and I was looking forward to that, but my MOS was new, and they needed me at MWCS-38.

Bs Computer Engineering

Activities and Societies: Tau Alpha Pi Engineering Honor Society

Undergrad, Electrical Engineering