Marcus Bennett writes about drone hardware, firmware, and industrial automation for DefenseTech Review and Airworkflow Daily. A former avionics technician turned journalist, he earned a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Calgary and a graduate certificate in UAV Systems from CARLETON. He spent a decade testing low-level drone components, including 555 timer-based timing circuits, autobaud UART interfaces, and onboard vision with ESP32 cameras. Marcus is known for data-driven breakdowns, source-supported specs, and step-by-step tutorials that engineers can reproduce in lab settings, from PCB prototyping with perfboard to configuring 192.168.x.x networks for field deployments.