Ciaran Cook

Software developer based near Edinburgh

Specialising in full stack Next.js Applications

About me

I'm currently studying Software Engineering at Heriot-Watt University. Learning all about the stuff used to make this site, and many of my projects. It is also the cause of my lack of sleep.
In my 6th year of high school, I decided to take a course in photography, so I thought I would continue taking photos and develop mu photography skills
I have been playing trumpet since I was a child, and over the summer lock down I started multitrack recording myself. I played in the Black Watch Army Cadet band based in dunfermline who have traveled around the word to play music.
I also have a fasination with anything that flys, so much that I have been building and flying remote conrolled drones and planes (but a bit more crashing than flying). In 2023 I joined Team Aerowatt where I found myself working on the autonomous systems, and now find my self leading the software and electrical systems sub team.

Projects

Pando Sketch

A full stack Drawing Application, featuring real time colaboration.

Part of the Software Engineering degree is to create a piece of software as a group, and our team of 7 came up with Pando Sketch, where I lead the development team

Gridmas Tree

3D mapped christmas light controller, featruring a webserver for controlling

Inspired by Matt Parkers videos in 2020, this was an attempt to recreate his project, then expand on it, with my knowledge of web technologies and concurrency

Deadline-O-Matic

A website and discord bot aimed to help students manage their upcoming deadlines

Initial created as a standalone python discord bot, the Deadline-O-Matic has evolved to become a small full stack application

D&D man

A helpful dice rolling bot for discord

Among other function, D&D man will parse a string of dice and calculate their total. It can also generate stats for character sheets based on predefined rules

Waypoint Maker

An easy and intuitive to create waypoint missions for Autonomous systems

Designed to compete with Mission planner and QGroundControl, waypoint maker lets users create both simple and complex waypoint missions, while ensuring that a mission are error-free

Other

The Button

A social experiment to see how many times people will press the button

Music

Some of my multitracked music that has been recorded. Some really interesting pieces of music, and weird ways of recording