My first group project. A recycling factory made from Lego Power Functions. This was for the FIRST LEGO League contest in the LA Legoland. First, me and my friend toured our local recycling plant and then reconstructed it from Lego to manufacture bicycle frames.
My dad, my brother, and I made a modular water slide for Lego mini-figs out of transparent tubing, PVC pipe, and a drill-operated water pump for the 2017 Maker Faire. Kids could come up, build a ‘snowman’ out of beads and send him down the slide. It was on display at the Junior Maker pavilion.
Another Maker Faire Project. This time a maglev train made out of coiled wire and a battery with magnets. But it had a twist stop. In the center of the track was a break with a switch and an indicator light which showed whether the train was at the station, and which way it was going.
The Armadillo is a custom-made plexiglass battlebot for a mock battle bot tournament. The whole concept was to have two-wheel drive for mobility, and octagonal base to slide under enemy bots and lift them. For that the Armadillo has two servos in the front, and two in the back. The front ones have high torque motors attached to them, and the back ones push out slippery legs. This allows the Armadillo to press his nose, or back into the ground and scrape along it scooping up bots.
The EvoSpyder was initially a project in a robotic workshop class. However, after the class was finished, I linked the Arduino inside it to an ESP to control the robot remotely. The ESP hosts a webserver where you can enter commands for the robot to execute.
This is an RGB LED driver for an ESP32. Initially the project was to make a chrismas tree star, but then the same driver came in use for making a Halloween cape that changed color.
Working with a construction firm, I designed and am now supplying and supporting a custom esp32-based cooling and heating controller for apartments. This included designing a circuit board in CAD, programming the esp32 microcontroller, assembly, testing, and working with the customer to get a good product.
This is another ESP-based project. This time, I’m using an ESP to detect the distance to a garage door, to tell how closed it is, and then relaying that information to the central control unit over espnow.
<- This is Chopper, my custom-built Linux Ubuntu PC. He has a Ryzen 7 7700X processor, a Radeon RX 7600 GPU, 64 GB of ram, and a brother: -> Photon. A Framework 16 Ubuntu laptop. For both of them I researched different parts, sourced them, and then assembled, first Chopper, and then Photon.
