3D Printer Enclosure
All that I will say is this:
This thing is way overkill and I love it.
Ghost Detector
This was a short little 3D printing, arduino and electronics prototyping project. In effect I made an EMF detector with an LCD display, beeper and a little glow in the dark ghost on the front. Fun little project!
Audio Projects
I've enjoyed shoving speakers into odd things for a while now. The aesthetic is fun and these things can usually be made fairly inexpensively. The most recent ones feature bluetooth connectivity and long battery lives. Most importantly, they are really loud, not so much on the sound quality though.
Camping Bed
I have an old land rover that I love to take offroading and camping. Because I live in Colorado things can get quite chilly in the winter. I decided to ditch the tent once temperatures hit 12 degrees. Sleeping in the car is wonderful but my seats don't really fold away so I invented this thing!
Car Work
As mentioned above, I have an old Land Rover that I am pretty abusive to, so there are bound to be weird mechanical and electrical problems from time to time. To date I have done the following work on my car:
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Front shocks
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Front and rear brakes and rotors
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Secondary air pump
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UJ's
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Traced out and re-soldered window power wires
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Spliced AUX cord into CD line - will soon be changing to bluetooth.
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Endlessly perplexed by moisture related electronics problem:
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Replaced interior fuse box & just about every relay in the car
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InvenTeam Projects
(High School)
ScumBot
The ScumBot was a year long high school project that was funded by the Lemelson - MIT foundation with a $10,000 award. I lead a team building the 300 lb robot, which was designed to remove invasive weeds from ponds, lakes and rivers. We wrote and received a grant over the summer and began designing in September. By November we had begun ordering materials and manufacturing parts.
Much of the construction was done with 80/20 extruded aluminum. The robot was propelled with two large, custom made paddle-wheels, which were driven with servos attached to planetary gearboxes. The invasive weeds were scooped up on an inclined conveyor belt, and were deposited for storage and later dumping on a long horizontal conveyor belt.
In May of 2014 we presented the project at the MIT Eureka-Fest in Boston. While the autonomous functions were too complicated to develop with our limited resources and time, the remotely controlled robot worked really well.
WaterTroter
The WaterTroter was a year long project beginning in the fall of my Senior year of high school we went through the design thinking process, and started by identifying a target population to help. This was people living in the Ethiopian town of Gojo, where one of our team members had done missionary work. One of the major issues that they face is access to clean drinking water. There is a clean well available in the adjacent town, but access requires a daily 8+ mile round trip carrying the water. Some aid groups have designed rolling barrels that can help people transport their water these distances, but the barrels can be hard to deliver to where they need to go. Therefore, we decided to improve on the barrel design by allowing them to be built using materials available locally.
We decided to build a device that would allow people to use old car tires to transport their water. The first prototype of the device was built using sheets of inexpensive plastic and steel pipe. We then took our simple prototype and used it to write a grant for project funding. We won a $10,000 grant from the CleanTech Challenge in 2015. During the last couple months before I graduated we laid out plans for how we would use the grant funds to build higher resolution prototypes, opensource construction plans and look into options for water bladders for the interior.
