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Walk Across Rhode Island
Organized 146 people to walk across all of Rhode Island, raised $11,365 for charity
Oribital Simulator
Built an orbital sim for satellite orbit design and visualization with spherical harmonic gravity.
MIT Makerspace
Fully built out New Vassar's Makerspace at MIT. $30,000 budget spent on some pretty cool stuff
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
Experiments on Steel Hardening
Experimented to see the effect various quenching temperatures and carbon content have on steel hardness
Automated Etch-a-Sketch
An automated Etch-a-Sketch that can draw arbitrary inputs from the user
Teaching Robotics in Italy
Taught robotics, arduino, and basic electronics to high school students in Italy through MIT's Global Teaching Labs
Machine Learning Magnet Levitation
Levitated a magnetic ball using PPO reinforcement learning model in a 3D space simulation
MIT Class Competition Robot
Double four bar linkage, a scavenged drill motor, and complete custom fabrication, all built in record time
Line Following Robot
Little line following robot built for a class competition, used light sensors and clever software to get a winning position.
3DoF Stewart Platform Hexagons
A series of individual hexagon stewart platforms that can created waves and ripples when tiled together
Maze Solving Robot
Using an ultrasonic distance sensor, some wheel encoders, and an IMU, this robot can solve any maze you present to it
This Website
Coded this website you're looking at now :)
Captive Ball
Made a couple of these simple little trinkets using steam bent walnut and a 1" steel ball. I'm rather fond of them
Tricopter
Went overboard for a final project for MIT's 2.00A class and built a drone with one less motor
Planter Boxes
Made two large planter boxes for a friend. Cedar
Autonomous Racing Car
Took RACER class during January 2022, built autonomous racing car using vision based on OpenCV
Foundry
Different color soda cans make different colors when you melt them down into aluminium stock
Keepsake Box
Inspired by the Japanese Kumiko design, I made this continuous grain keepsake box.
Project Boom
Worked on preliminary afterburner design for the world's first student built supersonic unmanned jet
OSB: Sculpture
Using the ugliest material known to man, OSB, I made a wavy sculpture-y thing cut on the ShopBot CNC
Casting a wave
It would be cooler if the function was more complex, but I made a damped sine wave out of ceramic
First PCB
My first ever PCB, which I organized in the same layout as a human brain.
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?
Vinyl and Laser Cutting
Made a cardboard katana on the laser cutter and a set of origami cubes on a vinyl cutter
ULA Student Payload Challenge 2021
Built rover to remotely collect and sample soil after being deployed from rocket
Drone
One version of many drones, this one features a gimbal for head tracking FPV goggles
Japanese Lamp
For my japanese teacher in high school, made this traditional japanese styled lamp
Thin Blue Lie
Built a website and database to archive and display crowd sourced police misconduct data
Recurve Bow and its many iterations
A culmination of many designs, this bubinga and white oak three piece recurve bow is a beaut
Chain Shelves
Needed to fill a space in my bedroom, designed these cool hickory shelves suspended by a chain
Windowsill Planter Box
For growing herbs, flowers, and small plants. Uses Walnut, Maple, and Plywood
Medal Rack
A gift for my mother to display her medals. Used Bubinga and Oak in a simple design
ULA Student Payload Challenge 2019
Built a collapsible 3D-printed FPV drone to be launched out of a rocket at 5,000 ft
Spice-Rack
A place to store spices within easy reach
Wine Glass Rack
One of my more favorite designs, simple geometric assembly of hickory, walnut, and aluminium to hold wine glasses