Vincent Banek's Home Page

Welcome this is the website where I place my thoughts, projects, & articles.

Last Updated: 3/8/25

Bio:

I am a recent Computer Engineering Graduate of CityTech (Jan 2025), I am also a Electromechanical Enginneer, (The closest industry term is Mechatronics).

I consider my self also a Mad Scientist because of the hard scientific projects & expirements I often attempt.

I believe my most interesting one to date, is the Atomic Force Microscope, I built for one of my classes, it is conductivity based, and works by scanning a object with a needle, by force applied from, linear piezoelectric actuators, made with repurposed guitar pickups, taps the surface to measure conductivity, then repeats at the next point, to scan & make 2d image of conducivity and displays it on connected computer. It is called an Atomic Force Microscope because it can theoretically scan at atomic scale. The one I built is at a proof of concept level, I plan on building a more advance one that can be built upon to scan & even manipulate semiconductors at some point in the future.

I am also trying to get back into mainframe development, I am trying to see how to get PL/I to work on MVS on Hercules. I really like using the 3270 emulators because of the retro styling of them, its a very big reason I try to learn IBM mainframe development.
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