Redbull Romi
For my mechatronics class, I had to team up with another student to design, assemble, and program our Romi Robot to navigate a racetrack. We were provided with a basic Romi Robot chassis, a Nucleo board, and a custom PCB board that was flashed work with MicroPython. I worked with an IR sensor, an imu sensor, and two encoders for each wheel. Learning how to use these sensors without using prebuilt Arduino libraries was really valuable, especially for the imu sensor. I learned how to use I2C communication in order to pull data from the imu sensor as well as how to write data to the sensor for things such as calibration data. I also gained experience on how to model the dynamics of the robot so that we could set voltages to each motor in order to get a desired path, like driving around in a circle.
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Howmet Aerospace Senior Project (In Progress)
I am blessed with the opportunity to work on a really cool senior project that is sponsored by Howmet Aerospace. My senior project is currently ongoing at the moment. The main objective is to design a blind bolt installation tool using a pass-through design for pintail collection. Images of our 3D model of the product can be seen below.
Replacing A Vibration Table
My vibrations professor offered our class the opportunity to volunteer for a few different projects. These projects would need to be worked on outside of class. The benefit of doing the project was that the final counted less toward our final grade. Me and my roommate volunteered to work on one of the projects.
The project consisted of creating a vibrations module that could replace a very expensive vibrations table with a simple product that could cost around $100 to build. Me and my roommate decided to go with an unbalanced mass design in order to produce vibrations. We had a motor that had a wheel attached to it. The wheel had a bolt screwed on tight in order to create the unbalanced mass vibrations. We used an imu sensor to read the acceleration of the vibrating object. Using a scale alongside the vibrator assembly, we could videotape the vibrations to read the magnitude. We wanted to design our system to be molded like a spring damper system. So, we decided to use magnets along the top and bottom of the vibration assembly. Assuming the system was 2nd order, we found the dampening ratio by using the magnitudes of the vibration. Using a sine sweep test, we used a tachometer to read the natural frequency of the system.
Pet Alarm
This was a fun class project I worked on with some other students. I took charge of the coding for the project. Using Arduino, I coded the Pet Alarm to sound an alarm if it were to be bumped by a furry friend or if it detected a pet going near it. I wrote my code for the alarm using C++. I utilized cases in a while loop that checked if a flag was thrown for an action to occur. I used a tilt sensor and an IR sensor to determine if a contain flag should be set. For fun, I made it so the beeps of the alarm would go faster if an object moved closer to the pet alarm.
Pantheon Model
For my Art History class, I had to create my own art piece that was inspired by a work of art that we studied in class. I decided to design a 3D model of the outside of the Pantheon. I even 3D printed it!
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