Daniel Nadeau

As a member of the Queen's Space Engineering Team, I developed hardware and software components for a 6 degree of freedom robotic arm which operated in the XYZ plane, as well as for the movement of a Mars rover. Having competed in the University Rover Challenge in Arizona, our team did incredibly well as a first­-time competitor, placing 5th of 31 in the equipment servicing task, in which the robotic arm is almost exclusively used. A video of the robotic arm and movement system can be seen in the competition below:

As a project for my university (Queen's University in Canada, if you're curious) I created an Android radio streaming app for the local CFRC Radio station. I have to say, it was quite the experience dealing with a client on such a personal level (they were right on campus). But in order to create the application, there were a few steps we had to go through first. Research The main task which was faced when determining the design of the application had to deal with how the user interface is able to integrate all the various features in a simple, easy to use, visually appealing manner. To generate ideas for possible solutions to this problem, the team took to researching design solutions that had been used by other companies developing similar applications. Sampling other Android based radio streaming applications enabled the team to get a feel for the advantages and disadvantages of various methods to organize all the necessary features. Through this research, i...

I am very happy to announce the release of my newest app, Keeper. Keeper is a finance app focused on keeping you "in-the-know" when it comes to your finances. Tracking transactions, account balances, bills and budgets, the Keeper released today is just start.       Organizing accounts: with support for checking, savings, and credit card accounts, its easy to keep track of your finances Bill payments: add and pay your bills with ease Budgeting: with easy-to-create budgets, it simple to monitor your spending Transaction records Local storage - no funny "cloud" business With your help, I hope to make this app prosper. Please send feature requests, bug reports, and anything that may cross your mind! Enjoy.

While working on one of my personal projects, I came across the need to use a graph or two for displaying some information to the user. Unfortunately, no matter how hard I looked, I was unable to find a graphing library that looks  good . So, I decided to make my own! Introducing, HoloGraphLibrary This library is an open-source set of graph types that are easy to add to your app, and in addition, look  gorgeous.  Themed in the much-loved Holo style of Android, the graphing library should fit in with any of your modern, standards-compliant apps. The library is available on  BitBucket , free to download and modify to your pleasure. But please, be kind and add a link in your about page!

This is really just an app that I really wanted to see on Android. A friend of mine had it on his iDevice and I was disappointed that there was no Android equivalent. So, I got in contact with the devs (who were quite kind and more accommodating than I thought they would be - Thank-you!) and they gave me permission to make the Android version. Now, to be clear, this is not a port. This is brand-new and from scratch, so bugs are expected.