Thach Thanh Nguyen

Embedded Systems & PCB Design

ngthachthanh@gmail.com github.com/NgThachThanh +84 354 639 169 Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
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About

Final-year student at HUFLIT, passionate about designing PCBs and working directly with circuit boards — from schematic and layout/routing through bring-up, debugging, and testing to confirm that the board operates reliably.

Projects

Buck vs LDO Energy Comparison

01/2026 — 08/2026
  • Designed and brought up a 4-layer KiCad PCB with jumper-selectable TPS62840 buck / STLQ020 LDO branches powering an STM32L432 + BME280 node, and wrote the bare-metal firmware for the 5 s BME280–Stop2 duty cycle (race-to-sleep).
  • Built an INA228 input-side energy rig (~10k samples/s) and ran 286 verified experiments across 3.30–4.20 V — each run as a statistical unit, with confidence intervals plus ABBA and marker verification campaigns.
GitHub

GreenEco — Smart Greenhouse

2025
  • Raspberry Pi greenhouse system: a REST API driving 4 active-low relay channels (pump, two fans, grow light), with sensor data streaming to the team's server and control app.
  • Brought up the hardware and sensor layer on two buses — RS485/Modbus RTU (ES-Soil7 soil, DFRobot environmental sensor) and UART (SEN0220 CO₂, SEN0501) — plus relay GPIO mapping, with Python unit tests covering the GPIO, UART/Modbus and API layers.
GitHub

Smart Helmet

2025
  • ESP32-S3 dual-core FreeRTOS firmware: 100 Hz MPU6050 sensing task with a filtered, speed/road-adaptive threshold fall-detection state machine (3.5 g final threshold, staged alerts, physical cancel button).
  • Automatic SMS alert via GSM module (single send per crash, 10 s cancel window) and an OLED HUD fed by BLE navigation data from the phone.
GitHub

Publications

Published

Accepted

Co-author

Toward a Hybrid Efficient Edge-Host Smart Helmet System for Drowsiness Detection and Accident Verification using ESP32-S3

The 5th International Conference on Sustainable Development in Civil, Urban and Transportation Engineering (CUTE 2026)

Co-author

DG-GhostESP-96: dark-guided low-light image enhancement on STM32H750VBT6

The 7th International Conference on Engineering, Physics, MEMS-Biosensors and Applications (ICEBA 2026)

Awards

  • Top 12 — Green Innovation Contest (Sang Tao Xanh), HUST 2025
  • Top 20 — BK Innovation, HCMUT 2025
  • University-level research project 2025

Education

Ho Chi Minh City University of Foreign Languages — Information Technology (HUFLIT)

B.Sc. Information Technology

Major: Microelectronics Engineering

2023 — Present

Skills

Programming

C/C++ · Python · Verilog

MCU

STM32 · ESP32

Protocols

SPI · I2C · UART · RS485 (Modbus RTU) · BLE

Tools

KiCad · Raspberry Pi · Git · GitHub · Linux

Languages

Vietnamese · English (intermediate)