Hey! I’m Jay Carlson — a systems architect, embedded developer, and electronics engineer with a deep background in medical robotics, imaging systems, and ultra-compact electronics. I spent nearly a decade in various roles at Virtual Incision, eventually leading the electronics architecture for the MIRA surgical robotic platform — a device that became the first of its kind to receive FDA clearance (and take a ride to the International Space Station). At VI, I ran a high-output R&D team that built a surgical robotics platform around modern technology, navigating the full stack of hardware architecture, low-latency robotic control with haptic feedback, real-time 3D vision, and network-based command and control for remote surgery. As a hobby, I also run this blog, jaycarlson.net, that has deep-dive hardware explorations, bad puns, and an enduring love of obscure microcontroller data sheets.