Nicholas Biancolin
About Me
Hi! I’m Nicholas Biancolin, a Third Year Computer Engineering student at the University of Toronto. I am a motivated self starter, who is able to function independently and in teams to accomplish tasks on time and to high quality. I am dependable and will try my best to do an excellent job. I hope to gain skills and work experience while making a positive impact
Alongside computer-related things, I am also a musician! Find out more about that at the music section of my website.
Projects
- Wiki Updater
- Wrote a collection of python scripts to update our team’s DokuWiki (progress tracking WIKI for the course ECE297).
Also wrote a custom API to interface with the wiki over HTTPS, thereby not being succeptible to the security risks from XML-RPC.
- Galaxy Jar
- Developed and built capacitive touch sensors connected to Arduino Nano ESP8266 boards using Wi-Fi to connect to a web server, allowing the Arduinos to communicate with each other.
- Risk
- Implemented the game “Risk” written in C and Assembly, to be run on a DE1-SOC FPGA, displaying video and audio, and taking input from a PS-2 keyboard.
- Also wrote a custom API to assist drawing to the VGA video display.
- Web Scavenger Hunt
- Built a polar coordinates sketching function that draws a percentage of a certain graph (as described by a cookie stored in the user’s browser). This cookie is updated when tasks are completed in other webpages.
- Whack an Engineer
- An engineer themed ‘Whack a Mole’ game built using only Verilog, to be run on a DE1-SOC FPGA board.
- More in the works, stay tuned
Skills
- Programming Languages: C/C++, Python, Verilog, PHP/Javascript, Java, MATLAB, mySQL
- Tools: JetBrains Suite (Clion, Intellij), Visual Studio/VScode, Microsoft Office Suite, Adobe Creative Cloud (Photoshop, Premiere Pro, After Effects, InDesign)
- Technical Skills: Soldering, Building circuits
- Hardware: Building and Configuring PCs and Servers, soldering, designing circuits
Feel free to reach out to me via email at n.biancolin[at]mail.utoronto.ca