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Quadruped

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...

Stable Body Positioning
It’s time to jazz things up a little. Time to implement whole-body rotation and translation!...

Walking Development
Think • Code • Try • Fail (Repeat)

Building the Robot!
Ready to see this thing finished?

Control Board V1!
Goodbye sketchy electronics…

Fixing Interpolation
My previous method for interpolating the foot position seemed great... but was it?

Adding interpolation!
Vertical translation calculations are working well, but I'm still not satisfied.

Quadruped Robot Update 1!
Since last summer, I've been wanting to start on a fairly ambitious project: building a...

IT... Y-axis Movement
Huh? Another degree of freedom? The Y-axis!

Two axis!
Time to add a new degree of freedom!
PCBs

Muscle Stimulator Part 3
A week after sending version 2 of the driver board out (see my previous post)...

Muscle Stimulator Part 2
After nearly three weeks of waiting (digikey parts came in super late due to a...

Muscle Stimulator Part 1
This summer, my main goal is figuring out how to make a mobile muscle stimulator...

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.

Stuff I Learned about USB
USB communication is a standard in our daily lives with practically every computer and even...

Quadruped Control Board V2.0
Ever since I started working on my quadruped, I knew that I wanted to make...

Control Board V1!
Goodbye sketchy electronics…
Internships

ModalAI - a recap
This summer, I interned for ModalAI again, just like last year.

ModalAI (Again!)
Last year was a lot of fun, so I’m back again!

ModalAI Internship
This summer I spent a ton of time at ModalAI, a company I interned for....
OpenServo

OpenServo Cad!
OpenServo Cad!

Debugginggg
And so the problems come rolling in…

OpenServo V1
A new era of motor controllers!

Talking to an Arduino over Serial with Python
How to use the python serial library to talk to an arduino from your computer!...

OpenOCD for burning bootloaders
A short explanation on how to use openocd to program the bootloader of an atmega...
Team Inspiration

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.

Stuff I Learned about USB
USB communication is a standard in our daily lives with practically every computer and even...
Biomech

Muscle Stimulator Part 3
A week after sending version 2 of the driver board out (see my previous post)...

Muscle Stimulator Part 2
After nearly three weeks of waiting (digikey parts came in super late due to a...

Muscle Stimulator Part 1
This summer, my main goal is figuring out how to make a mobile muscle stimulator...

Stimulation Control Board
A controller for multichannel muscle stimulation at the biomechatronics lab!
Motorsports

Race car Avionics
As you may know, I’m on MIT Motorsports. We build an electric race car to...

MY24 Dash
For the past few months I’ve been working on the dash for our car in...
Motors

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...

BLDC Inverter V1
This post is unfinished! I worked on this project a few months ago (and am...
Miscellaneous

3-Level Flying Capacitor Multilevel Inverter
Designing a wirelessly-chareable RC Car with an FCML and resonant converter.

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...

Physics boat
After the AP Physics Mechanics and Electricity and Magnetism exams, my physics class had a...

Converting particle devices to circuit python
How to convert particle Xenon, Argon, and (theoretically) Boron devices to circuit python.

PID Ramblings
Just some random stuff on using PID controllers on my quadrupedal robot.

Updates Blog
I decided to make a new blog (don’t worry, this one isn’t going away!)

Life 2.0 (Simulation)
Since learning how to program, I’ve always thought that it would be fun to make...

Autoformer
At school, whenever entering the library in periods other than lunch, before school, or after...

Complementary Filters for IMU Fusion
Let’s fuse sensors - simply!

Club Python Tutorials
A learning opportunity… for everyone!

Arduino Training Presentation
Over Thanksgiving break, I decided to put together a presentation displaying the basics of arduino...

Space Invaders
I stumbled across this sitting in my documents folder a couple days ago and I...

Developing my mini CNC machine
The Coronavirus quarantine period was a terrible time for many people, but I tried to...

2020 Top Books
Today is Daylights Savings day! Why not use your extra hour as reading time?

My First Post!
This is my first post on this new blog! I’ve never done any web development...