Ever since I got my first drone toward the beginning of high school (a 20$ drone from Amazon which now lives at the bottom of the Hudson River), I have been fascinated with their design, construction and use for both practical and recreational purposes. To date, I have built an FPV (first person view) racing drone, a drone that uses a gimbal-mounted smartphone as a camera, and a compact GoPro Karma competitor.
The Nintendo Wii is the third most popular home game console in the world. Chances are, you've picked up a wii remote and played a round of Wii Sports bowling, Super Mario Bros, or some other fun game. There's one *big* problem, though: it's tethered to you living room TV in a nest of cables and wires. My goal for this project was to pack the Wii into a thin tablet form factor with a integrated display that could be moved around taken anywhere, needing just one single cable to play. Click the button to learn more!
For a majority of us, the best camera we own happens to be one we carry around with us at all times- our smartphones. However, with such a small form factor, every minor hand movement gets translated into the phone, causing videos to be a shaky mess. Camera gimbals make corrections for hand movements on 3 axis to produce buttery smooth video - typically for upwards of 300 dollars. I can't afford that, so I decided to make my own, for less.
Combat robotics is a sport in which radio controlled vehicles attempt to disable one another in the span of a 3 minute match. This sport was popularized by the television show "Battlebots" which is where I first learned about it. I recently completed a project in which I built a 30-pound replica of the robot "Tombstone" from the show. My next project is to build a 3 pound compat robot to compete in the "Beetleweight" weight class.
At Caltech, I am a full member of Venerable House, one of the 9 student dorms in the campus. Every year, we host a party called OPI which centers around a specific theme. OPI 2020 was Doctor Who themed, and I embarked on a project to create life-size 6ft model replica of a Dalek. Click the button to learn more!
