This summer, I worked for Liquid Robotics, a company based in Sunnyvale, California whose goal is to instrument the ocean. Their product, the Wave Glider, is an unmanned ocean-going drone that can collect data for many applications, including biological research, military, seismic, … Read More
This past semester, I was enrolled in Mechanical Design. The goal of the course was to design, manufacture, code, and demo a search and rescue robot. The robot needed to pick up a medicine kit, drive through an obstacle course … Read More
Hey there! Sorry for being gone for a bit. It’s been quite a busy semester. Just a few quick things. Firstly, I’ve started drawing. My goal is to draw one thing per day, and to encourage myself to do this, … Read More
For the past ten weeks, my design class has been building a thermoforming machine from scratch. Thermoforming is a very useful process where a sheet of plastic is heated and draped over a mold, then the air is vacuumed out … Read More
In my Engineering Design class, we were challenged to build boxlift cranes that could lift 500 pounds at a distance of 28 inches from a central pole. The cranes were to be built with a maximum of 3 pounds of … Read More