<p>System diagram from patent.</p>
Assessing Viewer Engagement
<p>Rendering of Mechanical CAD model.</p>
Portfolio
<p>Gripper actuating, motion demonstration.</p>
CHAMP: Compliant Hook Arboreal Mobility Platform

MK4 Dashboard (August of 2018)

<p>Rendering of Mechanical CAD model.</p>

Rendering of Mechanical CAD model.

A fully customizable, open-source, digital dashboard for a replica 1965 Ford Shelby Cobra, the Factory 5 MK4 Roadster.

Completed during my engineering residency at Hitchcock Management. Served as the basis for further research into automotive IoT. The GUI displays much more accurate and comprehensive information than a normal car dashboard, and things like logging and event triggering can be easily built right in. Implemented backup a camera, cruise control, numpad to lock and fire ignition. An Electron UI ran on Raspberry Pi. Used anodized aluminum for the actual dashboard part, high performance printed parts for everything else. The car didn't have a CAN bus, so I had to implement speedometer and tachometer from first principals on bare metal. Inside the car, the electrical environment was very noisy, so hardware communication protocols had to be very robust. Manufactured two complete dashboards, one made of out anodized aluminium and one out of walnut. I successfully advocated for design to be open sourced upon this project's completion.

Blog post (design and feature review, code/CAD etc.).

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Involvement: Designed electronics, designed mixed hardware/software UI, authored firmware and other driving software. Assembled electronics + mechanical parts, published documentation. / Size: large / Domain: Mixed (Hardware, Software) / Team Size: Small Group / Mediums: 3D Printer, Arduino, Frontend Web Development, Laser Cutter, Mechanical CAD, PCB Electronics

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<p>Electronics during assembly process.</p>

Electronics during assembly process.

<p>View of touchscreen display and hardware UI.</p>

View of touchscreen display and hardware UI.

<p>UI view of the aluminum and wooden dashboards.</p>

UI view of the aluminum and wooden dashboards.

<p>Detail view of light switch.</p>

Detail view of light switch.

<p>Assembled electronics of both dashboards.</p>

Assembled electronics of both dashboards.

<p>Assembled PCB, no SMD resistors allowed, had to use Arduino Mega as replaceable realtime controller.</p>

Assembled PCB, no SMD resistors allowed, had to use Arduino Mega as replaceable realtime controller.