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

Contact

Feel free to reach out to me via email at n.biancolin[at]mail.utoronto.ca