My first real engineering project. A custom handheld Windows PC 8*(2S2P) solar battery with buck converter for 5V My first energy generation setup. Reading a thermal resistor and controlling 7-Seg displays (no libraries) Plans for robot arm design Dimensions to help with CAD design My first robot arm model My first server! A laptop motherboard running Proxmox Smaller stepper robot arm using H-bridges Finished stepper Arm with controller Custom fish tank with filtration system Working on my 13S4P battery The completed battery using 52 18650 cells Comparison with my old solar battery Top view of battery wiring New Battery Design! Design of my wind turbine gearbox Partially assembled gearbox showing BB bearing Iterating the design to fix issues with gearbox Design for Arduino automatic watering system Completed wiring for automatic watering system The reservoir with pumps controlled by H-bridges Capacitive soil moisture sensors All my plants just after I installed watering system Design for custom solar panel First time testing the panel outside Front view of solar panel some epoxy issues but still functional Finally charging my battery Trying my new MPPT solar charge controller It wasn’t as robust as I hoped but I learned a lot! Robot arm v2 assembly Breadboard control test Full robot controller wiring I needed to add a spring to support the weight Assembling the claw Finished (and rushed) controller design Finished controller wiring Finished servo robot arm Both conveyor belts I built Conveyor belt using two CD drive motors. Concept art for solar gearbox Gearbox CAD planning Completed solar mount and gearbox After installing the gearbox My custom computer power supply with all required voltage rails I bought an R720! Picture of R720 motherboard Getting the storage figured out First time using the server with the Tesla M40 My network “rack” Trying out a new storage configuration Third iteration with both P40s installed Dual P40s! first used for Gaming then for LLM Inference Compact computing! A Tesla P4 and 2 NVMe drives Getting my client devices ready to connect to the server My hacked Chromebook clients Tab S8 Ultra connected to my server! All my client devices connected at the same time! Wiring an SEL protection relay for my internship Front view of the OC protection relay My 200W solar array! Built on custom adjustable stand Showing the stand design The wire is routed underground into my house Tile 45 Concept art! Side/top view of 45’s initial design All the Tile model iterations Completed emotion matrix assembly Fitting the stepper controllers and ESCs in securely Here I show the wiring for the UART programmer The stepper motor control surface mounts Inside view of both parts of the Tile shell A cool shot of 45 A view of 45 with all the LEDs lit! The New GPU beam with metal support. Working great so far! The reactor filled with electrolyte 45 waiting for a question Hacking Chromebook firmware to install windows H2V2 rebuilt reactor testing New flexible PCB matrix 45 Generated with AI on my server! Gearbox testing Flexible matrix completed and wired up Danger! NaOH H2V3 (fastest one yet) EspNow controller for the TV2 Automatic solar adjustment with the ATtiny A larger gearbox for adjusting my solar array H2V3 protection system ATtiny solar adjustment My first Real PCB! H2V4 all glass build Assembled PCBs ready for testing Using an inverted helecopter for testing It flies! Debugging circuit issues on the breadboard A proper redesign that better fits my needs Web Cards! TV2 hardware in a box for testing Trying to get V1 to talk to the V2 Not bad for a night’s work Testing ducts for quiet flight (needed more pressure) These geared props were promising TV2 (heavy) assembly It does fly but it’s not practical I helped design this base board for my university’s 0.5U cube sat! The sat base board/COMMs board mounted to our emulator test platform New TV2 light design Plans for ultra light TV3 Ultralight is possible! A quick remote ignitor I built one morning Safely testing a fresh balloon Complete electrical for Tv2 light 22″ mylar balloon that lifts 19.1g was enough Its silent and efficient but this isn’t the form factor I wanted The audio was very quiet, reflecting it off the balloon helped Playing with ion engines A robot arm I designed from scratch in 5 days The custom circuit board I made for the arm I couldn’t fab the board in time so I had to make this mess A web interface to view lidar output A bluetooth controller for the mobile robot arm Taking apart a robot vacuum for Ros2 experiments A close up of the manipulator section The robot is 4ft tall, stability requires slow driving testing the weight capacity of the 18″ balloon The balloon’s nominal lift is 6.4g so I have a gram to spare! Soldering the boards using a phone microscope A day of work! The board is barely larger then a usb port! Struggles with FreeRTOS but steady progress
