Nilijenga

Trans (Swahili): I built

Hey! This website is for documenting and hosting some of my projects. This landing page has a selection of my favorite projects I've made. If you want a list of all projects, and the ability to sort and filter them, head over to the gallery.

Featured Projects

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Automated Etch-a-Sketch
An automated Etch-a-Sketch that can draw arbitrary inputs from the user
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Machine Learning Magnet Levitation
Levitated a magnetic ball using PPO reinforcement learning model in a 3D space simulation
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MIT Class Competition Robot
Double four bar linkage, a scavenged drill motor, and complete custom fabrication, all built in record time
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Oribital Simulator
Built an orbital sim for satellite orbit design and visualization with spherical harmonic gravity.
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Experiments on Steel Hardening
Experimented to see the effect various quenching temperatures and carbon content have on steel hardness
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Drone
One version of many drones, this one features a gimbal for head tracking FPV goggles
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Thin Blue Lie
Built a website and database to archive and display crowd sourced police misconduct data
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First PCB
My first ever PCB, which I organized in the same layout as a human brain.
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MIT Makerspace
Fully built out New Vassar's Makerspace at MIT. $30,000 budget spent on some pretty cool stuff
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Gas Engine Powered Winch
Welded up a gas engine to a winch to pull friends and I around on snowboard, skateboards, and makeshift boogie boards
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Vinyl and Laser Cutting
Made a cardboard katana on the laser cutter and a set of origami cubes on a vinyl cutter
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OSB: Sculpture
Using the ugliest material known to man, OSB, I made a wavy sculpture-y thing cut on the ShopBot CNC
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Photogrammetry and 3D Printing
I 3D scan a chicken statue, texture it, stick it in a dodecahedron, and then PRINT it. Technology these days huh?
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Japanese Lamp
For my japanese teacher in high school, made this traditional japanese styled lamp
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