We entered Derek into a competition, in which teams compete to navigate and race through MIT's tunnels with an autonomous racecar, avoiding various obstacles along the way.
MASLAB is a month long robotics competition, in which teams compete to build an autonomous robot, which collects, sorts and deposits colored objects to earn points. We built Aldo!
In the Extreme Environment Robotics group at JPL, I designed and built a prototype for a canister insertion mechanism to insert a canister full of sample tubes into a vehicle for its transportation back to Earth.
I developed a Virtual Reality simulation for investigating the feasibility of using gesture control to control the robotic arm on the International Space Station (ISS).
I went down a rabbit hole, writing some code to understand the trends in the probabilities of objects colliding in space, based on a few key parameters.
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FUNdaMENTALs of Precision Product design is an MIT class, which studies the design and selection of machine elements to produce robust precision systems deterministically. The final product I designed was a T-Base lathe.
In the Space Systems Lab, I did the mechanical design of a dynamics and controls testbed to investigate the feasibility of a rotating strip aperture satellite concept.
In a nanomaterials and composties lab at MIT, I am performing the material characterization of a dry unidirectional carbon fiber reinforced with carbon nanotubes by growing the nanotubes on the surface of the fibers, performing a resin infusion to make the composite and testing the properties of the composite.
We built a tandem (out of two scrap bicycles) and lots of used parts and called it Little Nelson. We biked across the United States from Boston to Seattle on Little Nelson.
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