My portfolio consists of projects I am working on currently, will be working on in the future, or have worked on in the past. As I complete sections of a project I will upload the results in notes under each project and description along with files relevant to reproduce the project.
School Projects
- Robotic Hand
- I was the project manager for the robotic hand project in the Wireless Communications Enterprise here at Michigan Tech. Our goal was to get a 3D printed robotic hand fully functional and have it be controlled by a wireless web app that communicates with an Arduino Uno micro-controller. My roll on in addition to being the project manager was to complete the circuitry used to connect the Arduino to the servo motors which control movement of the digits on the hand. I was also be responsible for programming the Arduino to accept and decode commands from the web app to control the hand. This was all be done in C and Python coding. Although the project ended up not being successful this semester I learned many things that will carry me into future projects and gained valuable experience in circuit design and micro-controller coding. This is along with the skills I gained in problem solving, teamwork, leadership, and management of people and projects.
Personal Projects
- Personal Schedule Tablet
- One of my greatest time wasters of the day is to constantly look up my schedule, as it is always changing, my daily tasks and goals, and the current day’s weather. Therefore in order to automate and simplify my life slightly I have decided to create a tablet that will draw data from my google calendar, various lists, and the weather channel site to display all things mentioned above. In order to do this I will be programming a RaspberryPi Model 3B and have it display the information on an LCD screen. All of this will be done in Python and C++ as they have the greatest benefits to an application like this.