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SOLEX: Senior Design Capstone
Overview: Solex is a light box designed to look like a standard window and be installed in the drywall of any windowless environment. It emulates key characteristics of the sun including color spectral patterns, intensity fluctuations, and angle changes. These characteristics help to activate proper melatonin suppression and provide visual cues of the passage of time throughout the day.
Technical: I had ownership of the cooling system from ideation to conception, conducted luminance and light spectrum analysis and validation, and encoded the microprocessor.
Skill: Product Design, Test Engineering, ANSYS Discovery, Mechatronics
Without cooling With cooling
Overview: Designed and built a semi-autonomous vehicle for a 2v2 “capture-the-flag” style game. Autonomous behaviors included wall-following (ultra-sonic), beacon detection (LIDAR), and object sensing (contact sensor). Manual operation was done through Wifi. The vehicle was controlled through a Esp32 microprocessor.
Technical: I had complete ownership of physical design and layout including part analysis and selection, I soldered electrical components, and tested autonomous features
Skills: Mechatronics, Autonomous and Manual Vehicle, Microprocessor Architecture, Electrical Design, Mechanical Design, C
Mechatronics Final Project
Fracture Toughness of Multi-Material 3D Printed Materials
Overview: Explored potential of multi-material 3D printing for optimizing fracture toughness in composite materials. Varied interface areas between matrix and fibers and analysed crack propagation after MTS testing. Our approach yielded insights into the role of interface area on material integrity and fracture resistance, demonstrating the versatility of 3D printing in engineering composite materials.
Technical: I conducted fracture analysis based off of crack propagation and MTS data (force vs extension), also designed initial prototype
Skills: Material Science, Mechanical Testing, Design for Manufacturability, GD&T, Test Engineering
“Panda” 7-DoF Robotic Arm
I programmed forward and inverse kinematics, Jacobian and inverse Jacobian, and computer vision to control the 7-DoF robotic arm throughout the class. The final project was a team competition to automatically pick up static or dynamic blocks and stack them on a separate platform for points. Our team made it to the semi-finals.
Coding Projects
Machine Learning for Predicting Drug Sensitivity
Used machine learning models to predict the half-maximal inhibitory concentration (IC50) values of hepatocellular carcinoma cells (HCC). We accomplished this with a linear regression model that was optimized with various boosting models like XGBoost and LightGBM.
Final Presentation: Here
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CNC Gravity Ski Holder
Overview: 3D printed gravity ski holder from printables. The wooden wall mount is a topographic map of Lone Peak in Big Sky Montana. CAD work done in Fusion and CNCed with Shapeoko 4.
Wooden Rings
Overview: I’ve made a handful of custom rings using a wooden lathe. Materials range from epoxy to exotic woods. Lettering is done with a wood burner.
Custom Numpad
Overview: I built a mechanical keyboard, but the main body didn’t include a numpad. Using an Arduino Leonardo Mini and the leftover keycaps, I built this custom Numpad.
