Projects

Following the assembly of a competitive team of individuals, a robot was built in 72 hours to demonstrate to FIRST Robotics Competition teams a design of a competitive robot for the 2018 competition.

I worked on programming the robot in Java, and the design of the intake system. See more at http://ri3dontario.ca/robot.

This was the final project for these classes. The dispenser dispenses an equivalent number of layers as the number of claps the recipient provides. The dispenser unrolls, folds, and then dispenses the toilet paper. The unit was then incased in white foam board.

This team's goal was to develop a robot which would be able to track a line, while playing sounds based on the intensity of a grayscale line, at a certain BPM. I aided in the mechanical and software design of the robot, in a team of 5.

Although this involved seperate programming, math, and chemistry tasks, the main project was to build a robot capable of of placing small, thin, bone-like objects at 3 different vertical levels and 3 different horizontal locations. Our robot accomplished this with 2 DoF and a wrist. It rotated on its base, with a double jointed arm to lift objects to their locations.

Project: reduce the carbon footprint of humans

Our idea is to source lentils from farmers, hiring a manufacturing facility to produce 3 variants of them. We prototyped and tried these variants. Lentils are some of the most energy efficient plants to grow. They are very healthy, and could be sold at chip bag prices, for the same or more quantity.

In a group, a low cost tent was created to contain warmth during the night. Black, garbage bag-like material was placed on top of an 'X' structure created by non-hollow pool noodles, which were held together by piercing bamboo rods through them. Front flaps were pinned to the ground using bamboo.

• A design project to create a low cost chair for disaster relief.

In a group, created a double person chair, where individuals sat back-to-back (photo coming soon). The base was 3 sheets of cardboard that interlocked, in an asterisk pattern. A 4th sheet was placed on top and folded to create a lower-back rest and seat.

• Designed electrical system layout
  • Minimized wire runs
  • Maximized ease of troubleshooting with accessible components
• Created complete BoM from receipts
• Designed game piece acquisition and deployment for large plastic gears
  • Able to function in both passive (Pilot responsible for lifting gear with peg) and active (robot deploys gear onto peg) modes
• Robot finished in top 1/3rd of Ontario teams after playing the top teams very often

I was also the Pilot, a human player controlling the strategic scoring of the large pastic gears. Although I was in a confined space with another Pilot, I made strategic decisions and established a leadership role in only a few seconds. These decisions regarded order of retrieval of game pieces, involved communication in loud environments and required sub-one second reactions.

http://team781.com/first/seasons/2017#robot

• Reduced weight after determining that structure was redundant, experimentally
• Designed electrical system layout
  • Minimized wire runs
  • Maximized ease of troubleshooting with accessible components
• Finished website experimentation

I was also the Human Player. I controlled the entry of dodgeballs onto the field, and would have to anticipate need and place them exactly where they needed to go.

http://team781.com/first/seasons/2016#robot

• Used MySQL and similar tools to migrate data from a broken Joomla 2 installation to a fresh Joomla 3 CMS
• Reorganized website content and navigation to feature frequently accessed pages using Google Analytics
• Pair programmed the motion controlled aspects of the robot

http://team781.com/first/seasons/2015#robot

• Machined many components
• Collected data for scouting and helped determine parameters for pick list

See more at http://team781.com/first/seasons/2014#robot.