Kevin Henzer

2017

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2016

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Fullrange Interactive Sàrl

Co-founder

This year was the founding year of our company, Fullrange interactive Sàrl. The projects we realised were numerous. Our portfolio is availble on Fullrange's website

Technially, most of our projects involves a mix between web developpment, mostly NodeJS / Express based, and low level programming, mostly in C, for the videos streamer / player architecture. Our touch technologies are OpenCV-based, and the player runs on Raspberry Pi, on our custom Linux distribution. We are making extensive use of the GPU for video decoding and video mapping. All thoses technologies were developped in-house, giving us a complete control over the whole system.

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Having few time left for personal projects, I still managed to find the time for designing a couple of small websites, updating my knowlege on modern web developpment. I learned AngularJS 1 and modern web devevelopment tools (grunt, bower & Co)

2015

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REDS institute

Employee at REDS institute

During this year I worked at the REDS Institute, in the school where I studied.

Due to profesionnal secrecy, I cannot describe in details the projects in which I was involved, but the following technologies were involved.

2014

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The third year of my academic cursus, I was mostly involved in projects related to my studies, with few time left for the personal ones. In terms of time spent, my Bachelor work was the biggest of all the projects I've done yet.

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2013

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The third year of my academic cursus, I was mostly involved in projects related to my studies, with few time left for the personal ones. In terms of time spent, my Bachelor work was the biggest of all the projects I've done yet.

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Pimp My Wall

Team work at HEIG-VD

Pimp My Wall (link in French) is an interactive cluster of screens, allowing people to draw on a building through a webapp designed especially for smartphones and tablets. Started as a 3 months project for a course, it was finished on our own. With the logistic help of the Baleinev Festival and the HEIG-VD, it was deployed in the 2013 edition of the festival in the form of 26 screens for a total of 300 m². More than 1600 drawings were received in one night, with an extremely positive feedback, including several press reviews.

My main contribution to this project was the Java client application and the moderation interface

FPGA based reliable resolver-to-digital converter

Work of Diploma at HEIG-VD, in collaboration with the CERN

In the context of the upgrade of the beam monitoring devices in the LHC ring, the CERN is developing a new beam wire scanner. The objective of this work was to design, simulate and test a new precise, fast and noise tolerant way to acquire the absolute measure of an angle from a magnetic resolver. The final purpose of this project was to provide an implementable finished product.

The device consists of two analog-to-digital converters and a digital-to-analog converter coupled with a FPGA. A digital PLL and custom IIR and FIR filters had to be developed, and the results obtained from different averaging and median filters were compared in order to find the best way to get precise and noise-immune measures. The challenges were to quickly learn how to use new specific to digital signal processing tools, like DSP builder, and Quartus II specific plugins. This project led me to work several days in Geneva with several scientists involved in others parts of the project.

Link of the official summary (French)

Reconfigurable Robot Platform (REPBOT)

Team project at HEIG-VD

Repbot is a wheeled robot with sensors and webcam, based on the REPTAR board, developed by the REDS. Both firmware and software are developed by Bachelor students. The objective is to remotely control the robot from a smartphone without direct visibility. Development (C/C++/Java/ VHDL) includes Linux drivers for motor controllers and sensors, using the FPGA for low-level processing; low-latency video streaming; a smartphone interface for displaying video and obstacle position and for controlling robot moves; and an automatic obstacle avoidance system.

My main contribution to this project was the Android app and the video streaming server

This project won the 3th price of the annual Swiss Informatics Society challenge.

2011 - 2012

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The first and second years of my academic cursus weren't focused on team projects, and I had few time for personal work. This is why I only made a few personal projects these years, almost exclusively websites. I always worked alone on websites. Both the design and the code were home-made, exclusively with Inkscape and GIMP. I'm not a graphical designer. That's why the visuals are visually simple, and somewhat clumsy. I have a couple of upcoming web projects, but this time, I will delegate the visuals to someone with more practice.

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2010 and before

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Most of the year 2010, I was working full-time at Cyberiade Sàrl. I've not many traces of the work done there, because it was mainly focused on adults training and troubleshooting. In 2009, I was 9 months in the army. The last months, some free time allowed me to work again on personal projects. In 2007-2008, I was in EPFL. Some courses were related to Computer Sciences. Although I already had basis in C programming and Linux administration, C++ was new for me.

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