All Projects

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

• KiCad
• STM32
• BLDC
• CAN
• Power Electronics

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

• Robotics
• IK
• Simulink
• Python
• End Effectors

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

• SolidWorks
• Kinematics
• Stepper Motors
• CAD
• Fabrication

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

• Onshape
• Mechanisms
• CNC
• Team Leadership
• Testing

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

• Onshape
• Embedded
• Sensors
• Mechanisms
• KiCad

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

• KUKA
• Motion Capture
• Research
• Testing
• VR

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

• UR10e
• End Effectors
• Arduino
• 3D Printing
• Automation

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

• KiCad
• Power
• PCB
• Oscilloscope
• Bring-Up