Jeremy Blum is currently the director of engineering at Shaper (shapertools.com), where he is using computer vision to reinvent the way people use handheld power tools. Prior to joining Shaper, Jeremy was a lead electrical architect/engineer for confidential products at Google [x], including Google Glass.

Jeremy received his master's and bachelor's degrees in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Cornell University. At Cornell, he co-founded and led Cornell University Sustainable Design, he launched a first-of-its-kind entrepreneurial co-working space for students, and he conducted robotics and machine learning research.

Jeremy has designed prosthetic hands, fiber-optic LED lighting systems, home-automation systems, 3D printers and scanners, self-assembling robots, wearable computing platforms, augmented reality devices, and learning robots. His work has been featured in international conferences, peer-reviewed journals, and popular media outlets such as Discovery Channel, the Wall Street Journal, and Popular Science magazine. Forbes magazine named him to their annual “30 Under 30” list in recognition of his work that has "helped America make things and get stuff done." He is the co-author of several patents in the fields of wearable computing and augmented reality fabrication.

When not building products, Jeremy is teaching. His written and video tutorials have been utilized by millions of people to learn electrical engineering and embedded software design. His book, Exploring Arduino, has been translated into multiple languages and is used as an engineering textbook around the world, including at his alma mater, Cornell. Jeremy's passion is using engineering to improve people's lives, and giving people the tools they need to do the same. You can learn more about Jeremy at his website, jeremyblum.com.

About the Technical Editor

Dr. Derek Molloy is an associate professor in the Faculty of Engineering and Computing's School of Electronic Engineering at Dublin City University, Ireland. He lectures at undergraduate and postgraduate levels in object-oriented programming with embedded systems, digital and analog electronics, and connected embedded systems. His research contributions have largely been in the fields of computer and machine vision, embedded systems, 3D graphics/visualization, and e-learning. Derek produces a popular YouTube video series that has introduced millions of people to embedded Linux and digital electronics topics. In 2013, he launched a personal web/blog site that is visited by thousands of people every day and that integrates his YouTube videos with support materials, source code, and user discussion. He has published other books in this Wiley mini-series: Exploring BeagleBone in 2015, followed in 2016 by Exploring Raspberry Pi. The second edition of Exploring BeagleBone was released earlier this year. You can learn more about Derek, his work, and his other publications at his personal website, derekmolloy.ie.