Project: Nano Talon VTOL Reason for Building: Risky Code changes Description: This project was for Volansi, a drone delivery company I was working at 2021-2022. The purpose of the platform was to test risky proposed code changes on a cheaper and less dangerous platform. We used this platform to do precision landing code validation for … Read more
Project: Ball Plate Balancer Reason for Building: Personal Enjoyment Description: This project was just for fun and the way that I achieved it was by designing the parts in Solidworks, 3D printing these parts, and finally assembling everything with code. I implemented a PID control algorithm on an Arduino that measures the pinball’s position on … Read more
Project: Line Following Robot Organization: Pobogames/Personal Description: I designed and 3D printed the components of a line following robot. The intention was to use this type of design for a class and build a curriculum around mechanical design, electronics, programming, and control. I was able to keep all the parts below $80 while still making … Read more
Project: 5 Bar Linkage Reason for Building: Personal Enjoyment Description: I saw a video of the plot clock on youtube which uses a similar 2 degree of freedom system to write the time every minute. I decided to figure out the inverse kinematics for the system and designed the parts in Creo to learn a … Read more
Project: RC Paddlewheel Boat Reason for Building: Personal Enjoyment Description: After swimming with a friend we started to discuss how we propel ourselves through the water. We decided it would be fun to have a small RC boat to toy around with that paddles. Using my 3D printer, I designed the components in Solidworks and … Read more
Project: Window Washing Robot Organization: Carnegie Mellon University Description: As a team of 4, we designed and built a prototype of a robot that is able to traverse a window and clean it. We competed against other teams of students and won first prize. In this project I did the majority of mechanical design, part … Read more
I enjoy hang gliding and especially prefer mountain flying and thermalling. When the conditions are not flyable in the mountains I fly the coast. I don’t like to film myself flying as it gets in the way of the sport for me.
I enjoy juggling. I started juggling when my dad showed me juggling two balls in one hand and I was hooked. I have since worked up to five balls and my favorite is passing clubs. I will be posting videos on YouTube on my page at some point.
Project: RC Airplane Organization: MESA Lab UC Merced Description: My housemate and I found plans online for a scratch built airplane. We made it out of foam board and harvested the electronics form another crashed RC plane. A few parts are 3D printed because we didn’t have control horns or a motor mount for the … Read more
Project: Hydrogen Fuel Cell Powered Drone Organization: UC Merced TEEL (Thermal and Electrochemical Energy Lab) Description: I worked on developing a controller for a hydrogen fuel cell and li-po hybrid system tuned for drone power demands. This included the drone power draw, the characterization of the fuel cell, and the effect of the battery. We collected … Read more