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Engineering Projects

Professional and Student Projects
Accessible Makerspaces and Hackathons for Assistive Technology

2023

Accessible Makerspaces and Hackathons for Assistive Technology

Building an accessible, hybrid-by-design makerspace and hackathon series for adaptive technology

JumBot

2022

JumBot

Teaching children about categorization and artificial intelligence without the use of a computer or tablet.

Haptic Communication for Collaborative Robotics

2022

Haptic Communication for Collaborative Robotics

Exploring the role of haptic communication in human-robot collaboration

PurifIO Air Purifier System Controller

2021

PurifIO Air Purifier System Controller

Design and concept art for a meta-controller for air purifiers and air quality monitoring data

Signal Detection

2021

Signal Detection

A short experiment in signal detection using PEBL (the Psychology Experiment Building Language)

Cylindrical Inscription Arm

2021

Cylindrical Inscription Arm

A robotic arm that can write the team's initials on a surface.

Raspberry Pi Analog Clock

2021

Raspberry Pi Analog Clock

A laser-cut wooden, geared analog clock with the escapement gear moved by a servomotor driven by a Raspberry PiZeroW

EV3 LEGO Robot

2021

EV3 LEGO Robot

Various adventures of the EV3 Robotics Kit

TriMonkey

2021

TriMonkey

Brachiating robot

Robopult

2021

Robopult

Robot that autonomously identifies the faces of players before throwing the ball to them with a flywheel system

HRI EV3 Robot Adventures

2021

HRI EV3 Robot Adventures

Experiment comparing robot acceptance/likability for robots of different morphologies and with conforming/divergent behavior to their morphology

Balancing Robot

2021

Balancing Robot

Double pendulum balancing system on a freewheel cart

ModPods: Future Travel System

2021

ModPods: Future Travel System

Design of a modular, pod-based transportation system for multimodal, transfer-free local, regional, intercontinental or even interplanetary travel

Mighty Mom Utility Belt

2014

Mighty Mom Utility Belt

First Prize Winner of the MIT "Make the Breast Pump Not Suck" Hackathon, a fashionable, discreet, hands-free wearable pump that automatically logs and analyzes the user's personal data.

AN/TPY-2 EEC thermal management system

2010

AN/TPY-2 EEC thermal management system

Thermal management for an all-weather command and control datacenter

Zumwalt DDG-1000

2009

Zumwalt DDG-1000

Shock and vibration isolation for commercial computing equipment in a naval combat enviroment

SWARM

2005

SWARM

Self-assembling, Wireless, Autonomously-Reconfigurable Module system
MIT Senior Capstone design project 2004-2005
Supported by a $30,000 grant from DARPA

Portfolio Website Project

Portfolio Website Project

A multimedia record of past projects

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