Automatic Game Piece Sorter

For my mechanical engineering capstone design project, I designed an automatic game piece sorter. I am interested in entering the field of mechatronics and automation after graduation, and this was the perfect project to practice relevant skills. This device sorts game pieces from the board game Ticket To Ride: Rails & Sails. There are 5 […]

Sieve Game Piece Sorter

Ticket to Ride: Rails and Sails is a Euro-style board game that has players building a combination of train routes and shipping lines to complete connections between various cities for points. It’s fun, but if you’re looking to purchase your first Ticket to Ride, I recommend the Europe edition instead since it is less complicated […]

Mini Shortcut Keyboard

A lot of people expressed interest in my shortcut keyboard from an old cash register, there were even a few articles written about it! I decided to make another one for a gift, but this time made with parts that anyone could buy online. If you’re looking for information to make one of these yourself, […]

Custom Hotkey Keypad Project

This spring, as I was perusing the engineering building’s “free” pile for goodies, I found a gem – an all-in-one cash register! It had all sorts of great stuff in it: A keypad with mechanical switches, Vacuum Flourescent Displays, and even a turnkey switch. I just had to have it, so I lugged it to […]

Suspension System Design

For our 3rd year Engineering Design class, myself and a group of six other students were tasked to design a suspension system that would enable a six-wheeled robot to navigate speed bumps and accessibility ramps. The current design had two interior drive wheels, and four exterior casters for balance. The old design makes movement easy […]

Gear Box Design

In our design of mechanical elements class, groups of four were tasked to design a gear box, taking into account the failure criterion of each component. In this class, we learned how to calculate safety factors, determine factors for infinite life of components. We mostly used Von Mises stress in these calculations. Our textbook was […]

Incident/Outage Dashboard

At my first engineering co-op, we sometimes had unplanned outages. After an outage, there also was little communication on how long outages had lasted, what systems were affected, and what was being done to stop them from happening in the future. My manager felt that we could use some more transparency with these events, so […]

Checkers Game GUI

This project began as an exercise to keep in coding shape over the winter break. I chose C++ because that was the language that I had most recently used at school, so was most comfortable with. Similarily, Qt was chosen for the GUI aspect simply because of its popularity, and was the first one I […]

Digital Clock Project Part 1

I’ve learned that the best way to learn something you don’t know much about is to take on a project. I wanted to learn how to do more things with electrical circuits, so I decided to design and build a digital alarm clock with full functionality. While this project seems relatively simple, much was learned […]

4-Bit Binary Adder

I was inspired by the channel Ben Eater, and his videos on making various components of an 8-bit breadboard computer. (https://youtu.be/wvJc9CZcvBc) I watched his video where he made a binary 4-bit adder using nothing but AND, OR, and XOR gates. I took his logic diagram, bought some components, and made it on breadboard. I learned a […]