ENGINEERING PROJECTS
These are an assortment of projects that I completed while at Tufts!
3D Ball Bearing Maze
I built this 3D maze with 3 friends. The goal is to get a ball bearing through 32 unique stages of the maze, turning the sphere are you go! We designed this in Onshape for easier collaboration.
Dog Kibble Dispenser
This was a device intended for dogs-- when they paw at the bone, kibble is dispensed. If I were to re-design this, I would changed the kibble location... the dog kept getting distracted by the smell of the stored kibble in the blue box, so I would place it in a way that approaching the blue box would prompt the kibble dispensing
Wind-powered car
This was a mini-project for class in which we had to design a car that could drive towards a powerful fan aimed at it, using only the wind from the fan. I was concurrently in a wind energy class studying airfoil design for turbines, so I designed these blades after the most common turbine dimensions. The car didn't work with these blades, but worked with a later iteration with larger surface-area blades.
Quake Detector
The Quake Detector flashes every time an earthquake happens, with higher or lower frequency depending on the magnitude. This was a project I used to learn API calls-- I used a Spike Prime kit for quick building and components.
Cake-baking robot
This was a class-wide project to build a robot that stirred cake batter, baked it, and frosted a pattern in the top (the pattern was delivered to us at the start of the demo day class period). Video here!
