My Name is Lucas Spicer and I am currently a Software Development Engineer on the core frameworks and runtimes team within a special project at Apple.
I have had a lifelong fascination with science, technology, inventions and art of all types, with a particularly strong draw towards robotics and automation. I’ve devoured biographies of Edison, Benjamin Franklin, Tesla, the Wright Brothers, Newton, and Leonardo da Vinci, Asimov, Steve Jobs, and many others. I’ve always wanted to be someone who could make something fascinatingly new and profoundly useful, that might someday make life better for everyone.
I have a Masters of Engineering and B.S. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Louisville, where I graduated in the summers of 2011 and 2012 with a 4.0 GPA. Prior to coming to Apple I worked for nearly three years writing embedded system software for Amazon Robotics (formally called Kiva Systems). I have additional experience through four full time co-ops with GE, as well as through working an undergraduate researcher in the university’s Computer Vision and Image Processing Lab, a senior design capstone project for Lexmark and through tutoring physics and computer programming for undergraduates. Outside of class I was the school’s IEEE robot competition team captain for two years and as well as UofL’s NASA University Student Launch Initiative electronics/payload team captain during our school’s first year competing (in which we placed 5th out of 42 university teams).
I avidly build and program my own robots and other electronic projects in my spare time, as a way to build my skills and expand my experience, and am always excited to get other people started on their own path toward making some cool projects. Outside of the world of electronics I like to hike, bike, ski, run and have recently embarked into the world of woodworking (trying to make my own furniture, so we’ll see how that goes).
I hope you find the blog or other documentation of my projects and work interesting or useful. Enjoy.
Spicer Robot Boy 