Projects

Bounce

Bounce

A Stewart platform robot that can bounce a ping pong ball indefinitely

Gambler 500

Gambler 500

Building a truck on a budget and picking up trash in the woods

flashlight

81,000 Lumen Flashlight

A really bright flashlight a friend and I built for fun over Thanksgiving Break

Baja

Baja

An off-road vehicle project team

Air raid siren

Mechanical Air Raid Siren

A independent study to practice my skills with sheet metal manufacturing techniques

Tack Sensor

Tack Sensor

A device that detects the tack of a sailboat for blind sailing races

Dijkstra in a spreadsheet

Dijkstra's in a Spreadsheet

Dijkstra's shortest path algorithm, implemented in Google Sheets

Access Control

Access Control

An RFID retrofit door lock

Beamforming Simulator

Beamforming Simulator

A 3D simulator for modeling the gain pattern of an arbitrary beamforming microphone array

Lighthouse Catastrophe

Lighthouse Catastrophe

A kinetic sculpture portraying a lighthouse in distress

Safety in Numbers

Safety in Numbers

A kinetic sculpture showing the schooling motion of fish

POV Writer

Persistence of Vision Writer

A device that writes text in the air, built on a home-etched PCB

Double Thread

Double Threads

A thought experiment that turned into a pretty fun fidget toy

3D Scanner

3D Scanner

A scanner that maps a 3D space onto a heat map

Other Projects

Gallery of images of some of my less well-documented and/or smaller personal projects

About Me

I am an Olin College of Engineering Class of 2020 graduate, where I studied the intersection between mechanical, electrical, and computer systems. I love mechanical design, getting my hands dirty with fabrication, and just making things in general. When I'm not engineering, I enjoy mountain biking and repairing bicycles (and other stuff), and going on long backpacking trips in remote places.

For a more complete list of my technical skills and experience, check out my LinkedIn.

You can also take a look at my resume.

Contact Info
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