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Laughing Dog Industries Digital Fabricator Maker, Robotics

Laughing Dog Industries "Slow is Smooth, Smooth is Fast."

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About Me.

Hello this is Dave Austin here. My major is Digital Maker, Fabricator and Robotics. Pretty simple and to the point, but there is more to me than this. I am a retired Staff Sargent in the United States Army I was in for 18 years before the army said you are to broken to be in the army and I became a disabled veteran of 100 percent (if you were to do normal math instead of VA math, I would be around 350 percent disabled.). If you want to talk with me, I prefer going with Dave and if you want to go by title I go by Staff Sargent, my retired rank.

I live in outside Ardmore Tennessee in the country. I love to build Models and create modified Models and dioramas for the models.  I Love to read a lot. My Stepmother was a librarian and now my wife just got her master’s in library science. Reading is a part of my life and when I was overseas, I read a lot to get away from the environment I was in. I was a Mechanic in the army, and I love to fiddle around. I have a 1964 Massey Ferguson I love to tinker with and drive it around mowing my Pasture.

I am interested in making, fabricating a diesel engine that’s about 4 inches long to power systems with the power and torque of a diesel but in miniature. Small diesel engines to run a generator to power emergency systems or to provide power to a worksite.

Education

1995, 2010
Ft Leonard wood MO

2003-2004

Fire Science major

University of Alaska Anchorage

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2006 Fort Polk La

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2011-2013

Calcasieu Emergency Response Training Center

Ft Polk La, Rosepine LA

Basic training, Advance individual Training (62B Construction Equipment Repairer) Advance Leadership Course Phase II

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I was working toward a Fire Science degree which interested me very much.  I was a certified Emergency Medical Technician

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BNCO Phase I (Basic NonCommisioned Officer)

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Firefighter 1, Jaws of life training. I became a certified Firefighter and emergency response team member 

2014-2015

Plant and soil science Major

Columbia State Community College 

2023-Present

Digital Maker Fabricator Major

Robotics Major

University of Advancing Technology

I briefly went to Columbia studying Plant and Soil Science until medical issues got in the way of my schooling. 

I am currently working on my majors and i am on my Student Innovation Project (SIP)

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My objective for my major which Digital Maker Fabricator, and Robotics is
1. to design a mechanical robotic arm to help soldiers and first responders to lift heavier objects and have protection from bullets and objcets falling.
2. to design and print the components of the structure of the arm, and in the future the rest of a exoskeleton suit.
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