Name:
Philippe Hurbain [4] (Username: Philo)
Age:
51 (as of 2007)
Gender:
Male
Location:
Louvres, France, Europe
History with LDraw:
Philippe left his Dark Ages in 1999 when he bought a MINDSTORMS set for his daughter - and ended up playing with the RIS much more than she did... He discovered LeoCAD at the same time and it remains his favourite tool to document his projects. He beta-tests new versions of LeoCAD as they appear on the source repository beside writing tutorials published on the LeoCAD wiki [5].
LeoCAD led him to the LDraw community and he soon got involved in part creation. Philo is an active parts reviewer, and recently started authoring of complex parts such as the new PowerFunctions elements [6].
He also wrote several LDraw tools, such as a rubber belt generator that was later incorporated into MLCad. His latest program creations, Isecalc [7] and Linetrim [8] help part authors to compute intersections.
Being a fan of Technic and MINDSTORMS, he was one of the few happy beta-testers of the new NXT. Philo is a heavy user of LSynth/LPub creating detailed building instructions for his early NXT creations. They are published on his website along with a repository of LDraw/LeoCAD elements of the NXT kit - many of them are still at mock-up stage. He is presently active refining these parts to place them on Parts Tracker
Related interests:
An electronic engineer by trade, Philippe is also a computer literate but doesn't consider himself a programmer. As he often quotes: "my favourite programming language is the soldering iron".