Carl Becker

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About Carl Becker

People know me, because I- always have a circuit board in my pocket 'cause why not - do weird graphics programming on my computer while lecture - ask uncommon questions - do overkill electronic maker projects next to university for fun # What am I interested in- Internet of Things (wireless & autonomous sensors, combining APIs, LoRaWAN)- Embedded Systems in (pilotless) vehicles - Sound design - Graphics programming (Shader & Graphics pipelines)# Who am I? I study Computer Science in Engineering in my 1th semester of Master's degree. In the 8th grade, I started spending my school lunch breaks in the library with programming games. I discovered Linux, Raspberry Pis and Arduinos and started building tablets, a gesture recognition glove and other gadgets. I was obsessed with electronics and frequently went to the Schülerforschungszentrum Hamburg to get expert guidance on my projects. For my high school diploma 2021, I developed an IoT beehive monitoring tool as a special learning achievement.(https://github.com/NEOZEO64) Alongside having an education at the oldest, humanistic high school in Hamburg, I had an awesome 9-year musical education in playing the clarinet. I won several prizes in the "Jugend musiziert" competition and played with the MJO orchestra in popular concert halls like Hamburg's Elbphilharmonie. But my interest in electronics outweighted the musical one and I studied Computer Science in Engineering directly after school. Since I am really interested in electronics, I want to understand everything and give my best, so now I am ranked among the top students. While studying, I try different jobs. I mainly work in a state of the art high frequency laboratory at NXP, where I automate tests: With my quick understanding abilities, I convert the tests needed by my collegues from high frequency electronics to efficient MATLAB or Python procedures, combining data acquisition, pre- and postprocessing and plotting. Besides, I voluntarily assist pupils in the student research center in Hamburg. I love to inspire pupils and other people, work together on creative problem solving and make them loose their fear on designing complex systems. In my free time, I go bouldering, listen to lot of divers music and do electronic projects, of cause! I completely redeveloped my beehive monitoring tool for 3 years and now build my own analog synthesizer to make ambient techno.