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Featured ProjectsPublished February 28, 2010 at 11:22 pm 9 Comments
I almost decided not to write this up and thought I would wait to make a project page about this when I figured out how to roll out an awesome free template that included cu3er, but knowing how busy I often suddenly find myself, I figured it would be prudent to at least document a
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Featured ProjectsPublished February 28, 2010 at 11:20 pm No Comments
The Vampower, a power saving power strip, is an award winning design project that was part of a joint class in product design and development (PDD) co taught by the FW Olin College of Engineering, the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) and Babson College. The team that worked on this project included two designers from
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Featured ProjectsPublished February 26, 2010 at 12:15 am No Comments
This project was completed during a course on robotics taught by Prof. Dave Barret at Olin College. The final project for the course, the goal of the project was to navigate a maze using a Surveyor robotic platform. As part of this project, additional sensors were added to the robot. This writeup will focus on
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ProjectsPublished February 26, 2010 at 12:08 am No Comments
This was not really an engineering project and it was done for a class that really was not an engineering class. The name of the class was User Oriented Collaborative Design and this project was more of a thought exercise in which implementation was not required and a path to implementation was not a part
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ProjectsPublished February 26, 2010 at 12:03 am No Comments
A followup the Carputer V1, this project was started with the intention of putting a more powerful device into my car. The idea of this was not about cost savings; but rather to have incredible flexibility for the device. While the current build of the device is really used for music and GPS navigation, other
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ProjectsPublished February 26, 2010 at 12:01 am No Comments
As part of a research project into bio mimetics, this robotic was rebuilt with the hopes of being able to replicate the omni directional movement of a spider. The original platform was built by Thomas Michon, Bonnie Charles and Leif Jentoft at the FW Olin College of Engineering. As part of this project, the electronic controls were replaced
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ProjectsPublished February 26, 2010 at 12:00 am No Comments
This project was completed for kicks during the summer of 2007. It started out of from a want to create something useful that could handle music playback and prevent me from getting lost, as well as to help me learn more about Linux. It was marked as complete by fall of 2007. The writeup was
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ProjectsPublished February 25, 2010 at 11:49 pm No Comments
The same team from the fingerprint activated door lock united again, this time for a class project. As part of the course: Principles of Engineering; we designed and built a fuel injection system for a small engine. Because the class centered around the use of Microchip PIC controllers, PICs were the primary ingredient used the
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Featured ProjectsPublished February 25, 2010 at 11:41 pm No Comments
In college we were required to present a project that we worked on every semester. At an engineering school that prides itself on making sure that its students are engaged in hands on work, there was almost always a project that I found was worth presenting. Except, during the second semester of my freshman year.
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