J-D is an electronics hobbyist, builder, and relentless tinkerer. As a child, he took apart everything he owned to figure out how it worked. Since then he has built many different projects ranging from an electric fishing pole to a remote-controlled lawn mower, which was featured on the cover of MAKE magazine in April 2010. Having worked as a builder doing carpentry, plumbing, and electrical work for eight years, his knowledge is founded on real-world experience rather than text-book recitation.
In addition to building robots and remote-controlled toys, he enjoys automating everyday tasks, blinking LEDs, designing and etching PCBs, and lots of random things in between. Much of his time has been spent researching, building, and testing various motor-controllers to make his bots move. As a self-proclaimed "poor man's roboticist," he will always try to find the cheapest way to do something—usually by building it himself.
J-D graduated from the University of Alabama at Birmingham with a degree in business management. He currently lives in Birmingham, Alabama with his beautiful wife, Melissa, and their growing flock of animals.
Josh Adams is a software developer with over ten years of professional experience building production-quality software and managing projects. He built a Tesla coil for a high-school science project that shot >27″ bolts of lightning. Josh is Isotope Eleven's lead architect, and is responsible for overseeing architectural decisions and translating customer requirements into working software. Josh graduated from the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) with Bachelor of Science degrees in both mathematics and philosophy. When he's not working, Josh enjoys spending time with his family.
Harald Molle has been a computer engineer since 1984. He started his career by becoming a researcher at a university in the southwest of Germany before cofounding an embedded systems company. Harald is also an expert scuba diver, a passion he is trying to combine with his work by developing a GPS-controlled robot to survey lakes. He is happily married to Jacqueline, who knows that an interest in robotics requires substantial amounts of time. And he owns a cat.
