Academic Projects
This is my academic projects page. Here you can find lots of the projects that I worked on during my academic career. Below is a short blurb relating to each project, with a picture that links to a page specifically about that project. These projects include in class projects, final projects, and even my Senior Capstone design project. They range from designing and soldering together PCB boards, to a schematic for a car crusher to be implemented in a recycling center, to displaying PLC data on a public dashboard while automating the growth of plants in a hydroponic unit. For more on all of these projects see the pictures below!
This is a PCB that a partner and I designed for our circuits class. The PCB sends voltage from the battery through the channels indented in the board. The resistors make sure that the LEDs are not subjected to too high of a voltage. To learn more about this project, click on the picture!
This is a project that I and two other team members collaborated on. The project scope was to design a helpful piece of technology that integrated our recent studies of belt and chain systems to drive a shaft and components attached to said shaft. To learn more about this project, click on the picture!
This is a collection of all my hydraulic and pneumatic systems experience. During this lab and the accompanying course I learned a lot about the design and implementation of hydraulic systems, both the theory and math behind the systems, as well as the hands on implementation of them and how they are used in industry. To learn more about this, click on the picture!
This project was based on our studying of gears and drive shafts. The project was to design and analyze the stresses on a machine built to crush cars. While there already exists many machines to perform this task, we based our designs of a specific model, then were free to design the gear ratios, drive shafts, shearing heads, and motor selection. To learn more about this project, click on the picture!
This project involved becoming familiar with operating on Okuma CNC Lathe, as well as writing and editing G-Code for the lathe. Using the lathe, our group machined conveyor belt rollers for one of our team members independent projects. To learn more about the code we wrote and the part we manufactured, click on the picture!
This is a robot gripper End of Arm Tool (EOAT) that I designed the linkage for and 3D printed. The scope of this project was to take a pneumatic cylinder that operates linearly, and translate that motion to another plane, allowing for arms to come together and pick up objects when the robot is within its vicinity. To learn more about this project, click on the picture!
This was my senior capstone design project. For this project we were given the task of automating an existing hydroponics unit designed by Fork Farms. Using an Allen-Bradely PLC (compactLogix) and an accompanying HMI, we were able to automate and monitor certain variables of the hydroponic system. To learn more about this project, click on the picture!
This is a bottle opener that was designed by one of our professors. This project had us working with a 3-axis CNC mill. The goal of this project was to familiarize the students with the operation of a CNC mill, and analyze and modify G-Code in order to ensure a well machined part comes from the .STL file we were provided. To learn more about this project, click on the picture!