Projects
The Candy Express
Group Project Member
An interactive children's game in which they navigate a LEGO robotic cart down the course, stopping at the snowflakes to receive candy. The camera on top was responsible for reading either candy cane (right) or snowflake (left) in order to travel across the wooden boards. Once the cart reached the end, an elevator shaft brought it back to the top so the player could run the course again.
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Balanced Bottle Holder
Group Project Member
Starting with a CAD model on Onshape, a water jet cutting machine was used to separately cut the shape of the holder and a circular metal disk to create a 3D illusion of the head. A vertical bandsaw was used to cut the slits of the legs where table bending was used to create the desired angle of the legs. Then, a mix of 3-in-1 and manual bending operations were used to bend the arms, feet, torso, and neck to create an equilibrium that would support the weight of a full bottle.
Haunted House
Group Project Member
An activated skeleton head that opened its mouth with a scissor lift to shoot out a tongue with a spider on it. Motors located behind the skull pulled back to create space for the tongue/spider.
A bat then dropped from the ceiling when activated, using a string over two pulleys attached to a spool that winded up from the table. Its mechanism would release the string by turning up, then turn back down and wind up after it released.
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Robotic Arm
Group Project Member
A concept of a claw arm to successfully grab the ball, then rotate horizontally 180 degrees to dispose of it on the other side. A counterweight was added of 2 wheels and a motor in order to stabilize the claw arm so it wouldn’t dip too low and hit the drop off container.
Astronaut Tool
Creator
In order to get the nut off the screw in an astronaut simulation glove, a color sensor was used so when it detected red, it rotated clockwise. Then, when it detected a force on the force sensor, it would turn the motor with the red LEGO piece on it to move it out of the way. When the color sensor no longer detected red, it would spin counterclockwise and screw the nut back on.
Reinforcement Learning Color Search
Creator
The color sensor scans the colored LEGOS, starting from yellow with an end goal of green, and is negatively rewarded when it reads one of the black endpoints. As the machine learning process progresses, the sensor arm eventually goes to the green block.
Racial Inequalities in High School STEM Courses
Researcher
I imported data for schools in MA as well as racial breakdowns of students in STEM classes to analyze racial disparities in these courses. This proved to show that inequalities in the STEM field are started in schools. The purpose of this project was to bring awareness to educators so they can help to promote equality in STEM classrooms and careers. All maps and charts were crafted using Python.
