Hi! I'm Will.
I love turning ideas into physical systems by bringing mechanics, electronics, and software together. I’m driven by the challenge of building better robotics hardware, control systems and automation environments.
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Custom BLDC Motor Actuator
Designed and assembled a custom STM32 motor-control PCB for three-phase BLDC actuation, encoder feedback, current sensing, CAN communication, and regenerative overvoltage protection.
Four-layer inverter hardware and 3D-printed cycloidal gearbox through multiple PCB revisions
Robotic Handwriting System
Improved a Kinova manipulator writing system by diagnosing jitter, replacing the IK approach, processing trajectories, and redesigning the marker end effector.
Enabled repeatable robot-guided handwriting trials
3D-Printed Robot Arm
Designed, built, wired, and programmed a four degree-of-freedom robot arm with a half-meter workspace, stepper actuation, homing, and basic kinematics.
2 kg payload prototype with custom mechanical and electrical integration
VEX Robotics Hardware Leadership
Directed mechanical development for competitive VEX U robots with custom climbing, scoring, drivetrain, sensor, and CNC-machined subsystems.
12 awards, AI Skills World Champions, and Worlds Build Award
Automated Treat Launcher
Built an electromechanical dispenser with a lead-screw elevator, differential turret, servos, sensors, jam detection, and custom PCB wiring.
Autonomous daily dispensing cycle with fault detection
VR Hand Tracking Characterization
Used a KUKA cobot, motion capture, and a 3D-printed anthropomorphic hand to evaluate VR headset tracking accuracy for research.
Work contributed to an IEEE VR 2025 publication
Honda Open House Robot Demo
Helped design a magnetic rack-and-pinion end effector for a UR cobot demo that automatically assembled a 3D-printed CR-V model.
100% success rate during demo day with team integration
Three-Stage Buck Converter
Designed and tested a compact buck-converter board to validate power rails for the custom motor-controller project before full ESC manufacturing.
10 W supply board tested with ripple measurements