Martin Walls

Building the superfluous for the fun of it.

💻 Experience

Propel Tech — I built an e-commerce website from the ground up using Laravel, deployed it on AWS and demonstrated it to senior managers. I wrote a blog post about my experience.
Video infographic production for SIL International — I produced a set of three animated videos for staff training purposes.
IT Partnering and Innovation, Lancaster University — I worked on fixing accessibility issues for the internal student website.
iCompetence GmbH — I developed a sample marketing dashboard to visualise website traffic data.

The NTP Algorithm — a talk I gave as part of the Churchill Computer Science talks series. I won the award for ‘Best Talk in the Practice of Computer Science’.

A pass-the-parcel music player .
Simulating boids — a distributed flocking algorithm, created for a third-year robotics group project.
Replacing physical RFID access cards with a phone — a technical prototype, for my second-year group project.
A Register Machine — written in OCaml.
Inventory management app — my A-Level project, an app to allow a business to manage their stock levels.
Escape room console — allows the final code to be entered to escape. Runs the timer and gives hints. View a demo.
IoT connected lamps — I built a pair of RGB lamps, that synchronise their colour to each other over the Internet.
LED matrix display — I built a 32x6x2 LED matrix, and programmed it to display various text and effects, controllable from a local webserver.
Bass Guitar LEDs — I installed RGB LEDs into a bass guitar, hooked them up to the guitar pickups, and implemented sound-reactive effects.