We created a perception system for remote control of a robot developed by last year’s team.  They created a smoother, more intuitive control model for manipulation, and increased the environmental awareness in the system.  The improvements make the robot more robust to real-life applications, and will provide Amazon with increased manipulation efficiency and reduce onboarding duration and complexity for operators.  

For the details of the project, please click here!

For Mechanical Design midterm, my team and I designed and assembled a flip stop watch that is powered from single motor. We did torque and load analysis, life time calculations and motor choosing processes on top of actually building the clock. The design contains 157 pieces and is accurate to a few milliseconds per hour.

We manufactured a night lamp that we designed to be produced in the scale of thousands. Our goals were ease of assembly and disassembly, clean, contrasting look, and customizability. 

You can check our final report by clicking here!

We created an ML-powered music box with four of my classmates. I was the only mechanical engineer major in our team and did all the design and manufacturing by myself.

For the details of the project, please check:

https://olincollege.github.io/pie-2021-03/Disco-Cats 

My partner Xander and I designed and manufactured a portable tea box inspired by the famous tv show, Avatar: The Last Airbender. The box is able to contain up to ten tea bags. The front face of the box contains a high-quality engraving of the symbol of the Order of the White Lotus. 

For more information, please click here!

In order to gain an insight into the manufacturing of 52100 steel, we created our own alloy and compared it to an off the shelf sheet of the same composition. We analyzed the differences between these alloys using multiple different tests including hardness testing, a coefficient of friction test using the Instron, SEM, and optical microscope. This allowed us to confirm that the steel we cast had the composition of 52100 and see how important quality and precision are in the creation of steel alloys.

We designed coins with as little detail as possible within reasonable machining times. So, we made six unique coins with customized designs and a platform to hold them.

For the details of the project, please click here!

I worked on a comic book story with original characters created by me. The story follows a character called Silver Pangolin that I previously played in a Tabletop RPG game and his antagonist, mysterious hacker called Charon.

The cover art is created by Midjourney.

I worked on a sci-fi short story that focuses on the concept of time manipulation through technology. It analyses the potential benefits and dangers of such a strong tool and emphasises the different characteristics of humanity.

The cover art is created by Midjourney.

We codesigned a chair for a kid with dwarfism because he was struggling with using the chairs in his public school. We prototyped for a month and eventually delivered him an adjustable chair that he currently uses in his school. This was a project for Technology, Accessibility and Design course.

No pictures are included for the privacy of the kid.

We codesigned a lunch tray for a kid who has to use crutches to walk. He wanted to be as independent as possible so we designed a tray that hangs on his neck and supported by his back for him to be able to get his own lunch. He is currently using the train in his school.This was a project for Technology, Accessibility and Design course.

No pictures are included for the privacy of the kid.

We setup an experiment to test the effect of time and temperature on the carburizing process on 1018 steel bar. Throughout our experiment, we used a high temperature furnace and bone coal as the carbon source. The results can be found in the following link:

Link

Emisia is a passion project of mine that I am working on it since 2021 and I am hoping to work on it as long as I can. I would love to talk about it if you are curious. The wikia link will be added when the wikia is ready to be published.

We created an algorithm that can distinguish between different forms of skiing. We used discrete Fourier transform and linear algebra to form our algorigthm.

For more information, please check:

https://declanketchum.wixsite.com/my-site-1