Projects
1 / Smart Knob
In EE157: Electric Motors for Renewable Energy, Robotics, and Electric Vehicles, my final project was building a smart knob. It used a brushless gimbal motor which, when combined with the firmware that coded "detents" on the screen, provided users haptic feedback when turning the knob. This feedback would change when the knob was pressed down and it moved to a new setting. A video of the smart knob working is here: https://youtu.be/tcjoSy6qsi0
2 / Class Robot
In ME210: Introduction to Mechatronics, our final project was to design a robot that could complete a series of tasks: exit the start zone area, touch a contact zone, and release darts (small balls) into a shooting area. The video below shows the robot in its earlier stages.
3 / Music Player
In EE108: Digital System Design, our final project was to create a music player with a sine wave display that played pre programmed notes and had a button to pause/play the song and a switch to turn on/off harmonics on the notes. The video below shows the music player working.
4 / Mecanum Wheel Robot Car
In EE64: Mechanical Prototyping, I learned how to use CAD and servos and motors. For our final project, I decided to make a robot car with mecanum wheels, controlled by a remote controller and a Bluetooth receiver.
5 / Candy Dispsenser
Another project I made in EE64 was a candy dispenser that could dispense Starbursts. We used CAD to create our design, 3D printed it and then attached an arm to the servo to push the Starbursts out. The video below shows the dispenser working.
6 / Speaker
In EE101A and EE101B (2 consecutive circuits classes that built upon each other), the two classes culminated in creating an amplifier that connected to speakers in the lab so that we could play music. The video below shows the speaker playing a song.