These are projects that were cool or fun but don't get their own page
I've got some stuff in the works. We'll see how they turn out.
I'm currently working in a research group at my university. We're trying to build a jumping robot. Instead of storing energy with springs like any sane person would do, we are attempting to use flywheels.
I'm also working on a few projects with the university IEEE chapter/club, which I am in the presidency of.
I've been looking into building a small cable-driven parallel robot, but the project is still in early phases and may peter out before going anywhere.
This website is running on an old PC in my closet. It was a lot of fun learning how to get it all set up. Before I got it an SSD I spent a year falling asleep to the sound of the hard drive clicking.
The sheet metal toolbox I made in high school got full, so I've been keeping my tools in a cardboard box like a chump. To remedy this, I've been working on making a few more toolboxes out of sheet metal.
Here it is - the reason I'm in engineering. In high school, I was a member of Team 6844. In 2020, 2021, and 2022 I designed and built climbing mechanisms.
In 2020, the design me and another student cooked up didn't work at all and broke other mechanisms on the robot while it was at it. Worse than useless.
In 2021, I got a lot of help from the adult mentors on the team. The design worked okay, and I learned a lot.
In 2022, I led the design of the climbing system. It worked really well, and we won our regional competition and went to the world championships.
Back in high school, I built a functioning 8-bit computer in Minecraft out of redstone. Its instruction set was limited, but I could add and compare numbers, write loops, and so on. I worked out most of it from first principles - instruction decoding, registers, memory, an instruction pointer, and so on. The program ROM was an array of 512 levers. I programmed it to multiply 3 and 6 together by repeated addition - about the limit of the machine's capabilities.