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Name Lucy Moglia
Label Research Engineer
Email eigenlucy@proton.me
Website https://eigenlucy.com
Summary I am interested in how systems work and how they fail. Electrical engineering is my focus, following from an abiding interest in systems theory/control theory met with a concrete desire to build systems. At Kyocera-AVX I have been reverse engineering a wide array of products, evaluating prototype components, and researching emerging application areas to assist our product development and market engineering teams.

Work

  • 2024.10 - Present
    Research Fellow
    Atopile
    Built hardware using Atopile's domain-specific language for PCB design.
    • Developed MicroMPPT, a 5W autonomous multi-chemistry solar charger with autonomous perturb-and-observe, now distributed by a number of third-party sellers
    • Developed a series of home assistant control panels
    • Developed a high-altitude balloon payload with LoRa telemetry
    • Testing/debugging prototype features
  • 2024.10 - Present
    Engineer
    Self Employed Hardware Designer
    PCB design, rapid prototyping, embedded devevlopment, RF performance testing, and more
    • Developed a number of demos which helped secure startups funding
    • Provided rapid turnaround PCB design and testing services
    • Early-stage hardware consulting, assisting founders in understanding their products' technical requirements
    • Lab specification and equipment recommendations, process initialization and calibration
    • Performance analysis
    • Failure mode analysis
  • 2023.04 - 2024.08
    Research Engineering
    Kyocera-AVX
    Kyocera-AVX is an American electronics component manufacturer specializing in passive components such as antennas, MLCCs, tantalum capacitors, supercapacitors, and varistors.
    • Performed teardowns on a wide variety of products and systems on behalf of market research and engineering teams.
    • Reverse-engineered systems to assist product design and market research teams; produced schematics and component models from product samples; evaluated samples and prototype components to assess suitability for given products/applications of interest.
  • 2022.10 - 2023.05
    Founder/Engineer
    Machinic Garden LLC
    Contract Engineering and Manufacturing Services, Small-Scale Manufacturing
    • Designed prototype PCBs to client specifications and designed processes to address specialty needs (e.g., copper nanoparticle airbrush coating and electroplating of 3D-printed parts).
    • Acquisition and integration of a wide variety of small-scale manufacturing and test equipment including 3D printers, laser cutters, arc welders, drill presses, oscilloscopes, CNC mills, and reflow ovens.
    • (KiCAD, Fusion360)
    • Managed a shop website and several storefronts such as Etsy and Amazon; managed AdSense; and handled order processing and shipping for an array of products including t-shirts, laser-engraved coasters/signs, 3D prints, and electronics kits.
    • Full-stack Embedded Development (C/C++, MicroPython, Arduino, ATTiny, ARM Cortex-M, STM32, ESP32/8266, Teensy, RP2040, SAMD21/51)
  • 2022.05 - 2022.10
    Electronics Lab Technician
    Electrolux
    Electrolux is an Swedish multinational home electronics manufacturer specializing in appliances such as fridges and washing machines.
    • Assisted engineers in PCB and firmware development and validation.
    • Performed IEC/UL compliance testing, evaluated hardware and firmware revisions with LabVIEW, NI embedded PCs, and custom Arduino-based test hardware.
    • Used OrCAD, LabVIEW, National Instruments PXI, and a wide array of electronics lab equipment.
    • Assisted in development of EOL test fixtures

Volunteer

  • 2020.05 - Present
    Volunteer
    Cleo Bailey Experiment
    Community garden project in Anderson, SC. Provides food to local food banks, hosts community events, and actively working on renovations with the hope to host many additional resources
    • 501c nonprofit organization. https://www.cleobailey.org/
    • Coordinated with university student organizations and community groups to organize volunteer efforts and plan events.
    • Managed and participated in the planning and construction of a wide array of construction, renovation, and gardening projects.
    • Assorted gardening, farm work, construction, and fabrication work
    • Assisted in the design and implementation of an array of low-cost, experimental construction and gardening methods, such as 'DIY' irrigation systems made from PVC pipes and low-cost rainwater collection/distribution systems.

Awards

  • 2024.06.14
    OpenSauce 2025 Exhibitor
    San Mateo, California
    OpenSauce, year two. This time we presented 'Richard Nixon's Head in a Jar', an interactive animatronic Nixon robot with silicone skin plugged into a fine tuned LLM and voice model.
  • 2024.06.14
    OpenSauce 2024 Exhibitor
    Daly City, California
    An event for engineers, student groups, open source developers, makers, and startups to exhibit something they've been working on. You hear my application on the Safety Third podcast here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NeMPYlnSd-g&t=5884s

Skills

Plasma physics/high voltage
Solid-state Tesla coil design/construction
Inductively coupled plasma, RF plasma
Marx generator design/construction
HV converter design (flyback, ZVS, LLC, Hbridge)
HV interlock design
Transient simulation and isolation in HV systems
High power waveguide design and simulation
Electrical Engineering
Circuit Design
PDN Analysis
PCB Antenna/Filter Design
Failure Mode Analysis
Equipment Design/Construction
PCB Design
PCB Assembly
IEC Compliance Testing
Functional Testing/Debugging
Prototype Evaluation
SPICE Modeling
Full-Stack Embedded Development
C, C++, Arduino, Micropython Firmware Development
Circuit Design, PCB Design/CAD Design
Instrumentation/Test Hardware Design
Rapid Prototyping
STM8/32, ATMega/ATTiny, ESP8266/ESP32, RP2040, SAMD21/51, Teensy, PIC
Debugging/Performance Analysis
Manufacturing
3D Printing (FDM, SLA/mSLA, SLS)
Direct laser writing and electrode patterning for biosensor and MEA fabrication
Electroplating, electrodeposition, laser induced deposition
General fabrication
Light hand/CNC machining
Research Engineering
Teardowns
Technical Report Composition
Market Research
Reverse Engineering
Prototype Evaluation

Languages

English, C/C++, Python, HTML, Javascript

Interests

Mesh networks (OpenWRT, LoRaWAN, BLE Mesh, Reticulum)
Solar converters
High Energy Physics/Plasma Physics/High Voltage
Artificial Olfaction
Mycology
Applied ML for robotics
RF engineering
Wireless Power Transfer
Open-source hardware
Low cost, open source microelectrode arrays
DIYBIO
DIY weather and radiological surveying with high altitude balloons
Small Scale Manufacturing (3D Printing, CNC Milling, Laser/Plasma Cutting, Etc.)
Open Source/Low Cost Lab Equipment
Artificial olfaction
Sensor design
Agent memory and orchestration
Control Theory
Enactivism
Machine learning
Biosystems, biosensing
Maskless microelectrode array fabrication for low cost cultured neuron signal acquisiton headstages
Mushroom Cultivation
DIY TDCS/TEMS based on Howland Current pump
Spore and Phage Culturing on Agar
Fungal network mapping with diy EEG hardware
Mushroom Identification
Biosensor fabricationw with laser induced graphene

References

Mark Hansen, Cofounder at Mithras
contact me for reference contact info
Zephaniah Smith, Founder at The Cleo Bailey Experiment
Julian Wilson, Market Research Engineer II at Kyocera-AVX

Projects