Tag: Electronics
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Solder Carry Kit
This kit contains everything you need to solder, but the power supply itself (and flux, and solder sucker, but those are optional). The helping hands of the system is an Omnifixo and its what the system is built around. As well there is a Pinecil V2, a solder roll, two tips, a USB-C cable, and…
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Room Irrigation System
The first iteration of the system was in my college dorm room. A bucket of water, a Arduino, a relay, a pump, and some tubing. Benefits were never having to water my plants, downside was having to refill the water. So my second crack at the system is integrated with the water main, and uses…
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Lidar 3D Scanner
This was my final project for my Intro to Photonics class. It’s a lidar 3D scanner, based off an Arduino, a TFT display, a servo, and laser distance sensor. The servo scans through the room recording spherical coordinates, I then convert those measurements to cylindrical, and “unfurl it”. This is by taking into account the…
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Cat Laser
After Intro to Photonics I repurposed the Lidar to do the reverse. First it used the distance sensor to figure out how far away the wall was and then plotted spirals on the wall using a regular laser. The system switched between a few different shapes and speeds. One time our cat decided he had…
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Arc Reactor
I really wanted to make an arc reactor prop for Halloween, this was the second iteration. It ended up being super bright and I had to keep it undervolted while out and about, if I turned it on it was basically a flash bang.
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Kapton Graphene
When Kapton (the funny little plastic tape) is laser cut it breaks down into a graphene foam. While the uses are varied, it is a conductor and can be used for resistive heating, or laser engraved PCB design, as only the laser engraved portions become a conductor. This was a little experiment I did to…
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Automated CNC Lathe via UR Robot
This was one of my senior high school projects as part of Suncoast Technical College’s Precision Machining course. The robot is a UR5, it’s connected to the CNC lathe via a fiber optic connection and a raspberry pi. That way the robot can trigger a G-code signal to start the program. I had a PVC…
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Great Naval Orange Race
Every year UCF’s intro engineering class has a boat race. The goal being from one side of the fountain to the other within an $80 budget and fully autonomous. See below my team’s report on the subject. This represented my first foray into LaTeX, intensive Arduino programming, and circuit design (including a custom mounting chassis).
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Power Supply
This power supply was heavily based off of KRALYN3D’s design. His video is excellent so let’s go over the changes I made: Overall this was the largest soldering project I’ve ever undertaken, however this was key to my long term goals of portable tool sets. Between the power supply and soldering kit, I am able…