Background When I first started building my smart home, I had only a few smart lights around the house and a few voice assistants. Given I was actively pursuing printed circuit board design and coding, I thought designing my own sensors to add to the smart home would be a good challenge for me. The…
Background After buying my first mechanical keyboard and understanding what makes them so unique, I wanted a mechanical keyboard for my desk at work. Given the simplicity of mechanical keyboards, in terms of the components and how they function together, I set out to design my own keyboard because I believed that I had the…
Autonomous Search and Rescue System For my senior degree project, my partner and I worked on a two-part system that was for long-distance drone missions. The first part of the system was an Antenna Tracker- an antenna on a two-axis tripod that would follow a drone so that the attached antennas would point directly at…
Objective Curious of all the new smart home tech, I started my journey of making smart home devices by creating an array of smart outlets. The idea was feasible due to the Particle Photon, a WiFi-enabled STM32-based microcontroller with a cloud-enabled backend. This microcontroller was perfect for the job because it allowed me to connect…
Vertical Flight Society 7th Annual MAV Student Challenge (Philadelphia, PA) For the 7th Annual MAV Student Challenge, I took responsibility for designing the airframe for the micro air vehicle (MAV). This was in conjunction with members of the Vaughn College of Aeronautics & Technology’s UAV team. Vaughn College won second prize in both categories: Vaughn UAV…