Controlling the RobotsConf Sumobot with Electric Imp & Johnny-Five

Assembling and Preparing the RobotsConf Sumobot with Johnny-Five

Intel Galileo: Autonomous Navigation Rover with JavaScript

JavaScript: A Digital Clock with Johnny-Five

Designing an Exponentiation Operator for JavaScript

JSHint At Bocoup

JavaScript: Current Detection and Measurement with Johnny-Five on Node.js

JavaScript: LED Matrix Display with Johnny-Five on Node.js

JavaScript: ESC Programming and Brushless Motors on Intel Galileo

JavaScript: Laser Intrusion Detection with Johnny-Five on Node.js

Rick is an engineering leader at Bocoup who mentors and supports the development of the engineering team, and consults as an individual contributor on projects.

Rick serves as Bocoup’s representative to [Ecma's TC39][2] (the Technical Committee overseeing the development of the JavaScript programming language) where he has participated since 2012. Since joining he has lead development of the JavaScript standards conformance test suite [Test262][10] to improve runtime interoperability, created the [TC39 Notes][12] project to improve accessibility of the work, and has contributed new features to the JavaScript programming language ([22], [23], [24], [25]). In 2016 Rick received the prestigious "Ecma Award of Appreciation" for standardization expertise as the editor of [ECMA-402: ECMAScript 2015 Internationalization API Specification][16].

Rick is the creator of [Johnny-Five][3], the JavaScript framework for hardware programming on the Node.js platform, and contributor to the [Tessel 2][18] open hardware project. This work has lead to the establishment of standards for [hardware sensor APIs at the W3C][17], where he is an invited expert and specification editor. With a growing body of [platform support](http://johnny-five.io/platform-support/), Johnny-Five is working towards becoming the de facto standard for hardware programming with JavaScript. Rick also leads Bocoup’s partnership with SparkFun through which he created the [Johnny-Five Inventor Kit, featuring the Tessel 2](https://www.sparkfun.com/products/13847). Johnny-Five has become a core component in the development of STEM education programs and products, including Makeblock &amp; Robotnik. There have been several books published that center on programming hardware with Johnny-Five, including [Make: JavaScript Robotics][19], [Learning JavaScript Robotics][20] and [JavaScript on Things: Hardware for Web Developers][21].

As a web developer, Rick was a [jQuery][0] [Core team member][1] from 2009 - 2015 and former board member of the [jQuery Foundation][14] (now the JS Foundation). Rick lead the development of the HTML5 video programming framework [Popcorn.js][7] in 2010, and the mobile web test suite [Ringmark][6] in 2012. In 2013, Rick worked on Mozilla's [FirefoxOS][8], participating in the development of the Messages and Clock apps. Rick also maintains a popular set of principles for writing consistent JavaScript called [idiomatic.js][4], which has been translated into 14 languages.

Rick's personal work is open sourced under the MIT license and freely available at [Github][9].

[0]: http://github.com/jquery/jquery
[1]: http://jquery.org/team/
[2]: http://github.com/tc39/
[3]: http://johnny-five.io
[4]: http://github.com/rwaldron/idiomatic.js
[5]: https://github.com/facebook/rng.io
[6]: http://rng.io
[7]: https://github.com/mozilla/popcorn-js
[8]: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/products/firefox-os
[9]: https://github.com/rwaldron
[10]: https://github.com/tc39/test262
[11]: https://tc39.github.io/ecma262/
[12]: https://github.com/rwaldron/tc39-notes
[13]: https://www.w3.org/TR/generic-sensor/
[14]: https://js.foundation
[16]: https://www.ecma-international.org/ecma-402/2.0/index.html
[17]: https://www.w3.org/TR/generic-sensor/
[18]: https://tessel.io/
[19]: http://www.amazon.com/Make-JavaScript-Robotics-Raspberry-BeagleBone/dp/1457186950
[20]: http://www.amazon.com/Learning-JavaScript-Robotics-Kassandra-Perch/dp/1785883348
[21]: https://www.manning.com/books/javascript-on-things?a_aid=wcd-bocoup&amp;a_bid=b1e5b2a9
[22]: https://gist.github.com/rwaldron/3744794
[23]: https://gist.github.com/rwaldron/1074126
[24]: https://github.com/tc39/proposal-numeric-separator
[25]: https://github.com/rwaldron/exponentiation-operator

Rick Waldron