Sean Boerhout
Hi! I'm Sean, a second year at MIT studying EECS.
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Muscle Stimulator Part 2
After nearly three weeks of waiting (digikey parts came in super late due to a...
BLDC Inverter V1
This post is unfinished! I worked on this project a few months ago (and am...
Stable Body Positioning
It’s time to jazz things up a little. Time to implement whole-body rotation and translation!...
DC Link Capacitor Sizing for Traction Inverters
One of reasons for writing maple was to get a better idea of how to...
Simulation and Torque Optimization of PMSM Motors
I finally got around to hardcore studying motor theory this winter break, and decided to...
3-Level Flying Capacitor Multilevel Inverter
Designing a wirelessly-chareable RC Car with an FCML and resonant converter.
Race car Avionics
As you may know, I’m on MIT Motorsports. We build an electric race car to...
Muscle Stimulator Part 3
A week after sending version 2 of the driver board out (see my previous post)...
Muscle Stimulator Part 1
This summer, my main goal is figuring out how to make a mobile muscle stimulator...
MY24 Dash
For the past few months I’ve been working on the dash for our car in...
Stimulation Control Board
A controller for multichannel muscle stimulation at the biomechatronics lab!
Inspiration PDB - Updates
Board updates!
Inspiration PDB - Build
Time to build!
Inspiration PDB - Design
Designing a current-cramming hot-swapping power-pumping power distribution board for a competition submarine.
ModalAI - a recap
This summer, I interned for ModalAI again, just like last year.
OpenServo Cad!
OpenServo Cad!
Coffee!
I like coffee now.
Summer learnings
Just a recap of some things I’ve been studying.
Simple Variable Buck Converter
Yesterday I built a variable buck converter for fun. It allows you to vary an...
ModalAI (Again!)
Last year was a lot of fun, so I’m back again!
Debugginggg
And so the problems come rolling in…
Physics boat
After the AP Physics Mechanics and Electricity and Magnetism exams, my physics class had a...
OpenServo V1
A new era of motor controllers!
Stuff I Learned about USB
USB communication is a standard in our daily lives with practically every computer and even...
Talking to an Arduino over Serial with Python
How to use the python serial library to talk to an arduino from your computer!...
Converting particle devices to circuit python
How to convert particle Xenon, Argon, and (theoretically) Boron devices to circuit python.
OpenOCD for burning bootloaders
A short explanation on how to use openocd to program the bootloader of an atmega...
PID Ramblings
Just some random stuff on using PID controllers on my quadrupedal robot.
Silicone Foot Mold
During winter break, I did some experimenting with using silicon as a material for making...
Quadruped Control Board V2.0
Ever since I started working on my quadruped, I knew that I wanted to make...
Updates Blog
I decided to make a new blog (don’t worry, this one isn’t going away!)