Projects

I saw this project on github and had to give it a go. The display lasts 6 months on battery life since it only updates once every half-hour. E-ink displays are great since they don't require power to keep the graphics on display. I set it up to connect to my Wi-Fi and hung it next to my front door. Along with the outside temperature, precipitation percentage, wind, etc., it also tells me the temperature and relative humidity within my home since I installed a BME280 sensor with it.

Since working for GE Global Research, I've had the opportunity to work on some different aerospace projects. If you're unaware, one of General Electric's main products is jet engines. Anyway, I can't take credit for the design of this model, but it was an absolute pleasure to print, assemble and better familiarize myself with different parts of a jet engine. If you'd like to make it yourself, follow the link here.

In early 2023, my wife I learned we were expecting another child, and decided to reveal the news to our families via an electronic puzzle box. The box is a cube with a QR code and battery switch on the bottom, four different colored banana lug ports on each side, and an LED matrix on top. After using the QR code to get to the puzzles and solving them, the LED matrix lights up and the words "We;'re pregnant!" scroll across. We also submitted the project to Instructables.com and won a  2nd place prize (see here )!

I programmed the heading and velocity controllers in MATLAB for a virtual self-driving car to finish an obstacle-ridden track. I used a Stanley controller to control the heading and a simple proportional controller to control the velocity. In addition, as the heading rate increased, I reduced the forward velocity. For debugging purposes, I created a simulation of the track and car as shown in the video on the right. Our team's car took 3rd place out of 35 teams in a race to see whose car could finish first without hitting any obstacles or leaving the track. A link to our code can be found here.

As part of a team competition, I programmed a 5-DOF robot in Python to sort blocks by size as shown in the video.  To get here, I calibrated the camera to find a camera-to-world transformation (extrinsic matrix) and derived the inverse kinematics for the arm to determine joint angles for a desired end-effector position. Additionally, our team used OpenCV to detect blocks using a combination of depth and color information from an overhead camera. An in-depth description of our project can be found here .

In one of my programming courses, I used C to code a GUI for the Linux terminal (technically Windows Subsystem for Linux) in order to quickly test how different parameters impacted the performance of a simulation. The simulation shows a chaser robot (green triangle) chasing the runner robot (red triangle). The runner robot isn't trying to escape, but just moves randomly.

Using a variety of manufacturing processes, I created a mini engine made from brass, steel, and aluminum. The flywheel was made using sand casting. I made the crank wheel using powder metallurgy. I machined the rest of the parts using a lathe, mill, and drill press. Finally, I sand-blasted the engine to give it a finishing touch. It runs on compressed air with no issues for at least 2 minutes (that's as long as I tested it for)