short_projects
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Voron Mini Update 2: It’s alive!
So since last post, the Voron has been turned on and ran through the complete initial setup. All the motors were reversed but everything moved as expected. It was beautiful! I will never get over how cool it is to see automated machines in action, especially knowing what’s going on…
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Voron Part 1: Built in a cardboard box
As a break in the middle of graduate application, I decided to break into my Voron kits. They’ve been sitting on my shelf for a few weeks now and I really want to start printing parts for them. Before starting anything and while I was waiting for the KVP ABS…
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Restoring a 2nd hand turntable
September 10,2024. My girlfriend, her sister, and I went to see Hozier at Shoreline Amphitheatre and got an unforgettable performance (Nobody’s Soldier is my favorite to hear live for that sweet bassline) When buying merch, my girlfriend decided to buy her favorite album as a vinyl record, ” Wasteland, Baby!”.…
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returning life into a portable CRT [Part 1/2]
Every 2nd sunday, 6AM to 12PM, of every month March to September, Silicon Valley holds an Electronics Flea Market. I had just recently discovered this event when getting interested in vintage tech and restoration so I marked my calender and waited. The flea market was held in May 19, 2024…
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Planter Pot
I designed a succulent planter pot referencing SMISKI’s and other human-shaped planters for my mom’s garden. All of the surface, free-form modeling was done in Fusion360, which was an odd choice as a parametric software. Mostly eyeballing and pinching surface nodes until they look right and the 3D printer software…
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Home repair of toaster oven
[Temp] One day, my parent’s toaster oven stopped working. You’d turn the knob and only the toast function would work (there’s oven, broil, and air fryer mode). Since this oven isn’t super complicated or proprietary like a smart device or super dangerous like a microwave project, surely there has to…
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3D-printed cycloidal drive
After college, I wanted to keep making robotics-based projects. Keep my mind fresh for the eventual grad return once I find my research inspiration. I have always been interested in the unique gearboxes of harmonic drives and cycloidal drives found in industrial robotic wrists. Planetary gearboxes are cool and all,…
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Laser cut/engraved mementos
Designed some laser cut and engraved keychains for my friends before I finish my undergraduate degree and no longer have access to the lab’s laser cutter T.T. I wanted to make designs representative of their respective degrees. Here’s a breakdown of the process Start with key chain idea and sketch…
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Ultrasonic Proximity Sensor
As a final project for university mechatronics course, I made a rudimentary 3d scanner using an ultrasonic sensor. Previously, I had messed around with 3D plots in MATLAB and this was a decent reason to utilize 3d visualization. The course, although theoretical information was new like filtering circuits and op-amps,…
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