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Quadruped

Silicone Foot Mold

Silicone Foot Mold

During winter break, I did some experimenting with using silicon as a material for making...

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Quadruped Control Board V2.0

Quadruped Control Board V2.0

Ever since I started working on my quadruped, I knew that I wanted to make...

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Stable Body Positioning

Stable Body Positioning

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

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Walking Development

Walking Development

Think • Code • Try • Fail (Repeat)

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Building the Robot!

Building the Robot!

Ready to see this thing finished?

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Control Board V1!

Control Board V1!

Goodbye sketchy electronics…

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Fixing Interpolation

Fixing Interpolation

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

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Adding interpolation!

Adding interpolation!

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

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Quadruped Robot Update 1!

Quadruped Robot Update 1!

Since last summer, I've been wanting to start on a fairly ambitious project: building a...

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IT... Y-axis Movement

IT... Y-axis Movement

Huh? Another degree of freedom? The Y-axis!

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Two axis!

Two axis!

Time to add a new degree of freedom!

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PCBs

Muscle Stimulator Part 3

Muscle Stimulator Part 3

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

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Muscle Stimulator Part 2

Muscle Stimulator Part 2

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

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Muscle Stimulator Part 1

Muscle Stimulator Part 1

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

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Stimulation Control Board

Stimulation Control Board

A controller for multichannel muscle stimulation at the biomechatronics lab!

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Inspiration PDB - Updates

Inspiration PDB - Updates

Board updates!

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Inspiration PDB - Build

Inspiration PDB - Build

Time to build!

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Inspiration PDB - Design

Inspiration PDB - Design

Designing a current-cramming hot-swapping power-pumping power distribution board for a competition submarine.

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Stuff I Learned about USB

Stuff I Learned about USB

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

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Quadruped Control Board V2.0

Quadruped Control Board V2.0

Ever since I started working on my quadruped, I knew that I wanted to make...

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Control Board V1!

Control Board V1!

Goodbye sketchy electronics…

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Internships

ModalAI - a recap

ModalAI - a recap

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

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ModalAI (Again!)

ModalAI (Again!)

Last year was a lot of fun, so I’m back again!

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ModalAI Internship

ModalAI Internship

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

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OpenServo

OpenServo Cad!

OpenServo Cad!

OpenServo Cad!

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Debugginggg

Debugginggg

And so the problems come rolling in…

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OpenServo V1

OpenServo V1

A new era of motor controllers!

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Talking to an Arduino over Serial with Python

Talking to an Arduino over Serial with Python

How to use the python serial library to talk to an arduino from your computer!...

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OpenOCD for burning bootloaders

OpenOCD for burning bootloaders

A short explanation on how to use openocd to program the bootloader of an atmega...

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Team Inspiration

Inspiration PDB - Updates

Inspiration PDB - Updates

Board updates!

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Inspiration PDB - Build

Inspiration PDB - Build

Time to build!

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Inspiration PDB - Design

Inspiration PDB - Design

Designing a current-cramming hot-swapping power-pumping power distribution board for a competition submarine.

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Stuff I Learned about USB

Stuff I Learned about USB

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

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Biomech

Muscle Stimulator Part 3

Muscle Stimulator Part 3

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

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Muscle Stimulator Part 2

Muscle Stimulator Part 2

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

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Muscle Stimulator Part 1

Muscle Stimulator Part 1

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

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Stimulation Control Board

Stimulation Control Board

A controller for multichannel muscle stimulation at the biomechatronics lab!

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Motorsports

Race car Avionics

Race car Avionics

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

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MY24 Dash

MY24 Dash

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

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Motors

DC Link Capacitor Sizing for Traction Inverters

DC Link Capacitor Sizing for Traction Inverters

One of reasons for writing maple was to get a better idea of how to...

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Simulation and Torque Optimization of PMSM Motors

Simulation and Torque Optimization of PMSM Motors

I finally got around to hardcore studying motor theory this winter break, and decided to...

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BLDC Inverter V1

BLDC Inverter V1

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

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Miscellaneous

3-Level Flying Capacitor Multilevel Inverter

3-Level Flying Capacitor Multilevel Inverter

Designing a wirelessly-chareable RC Car with an FCML and resonant converter.

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Coffee!

Coffee!

I like coffee now.

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Summer learnings

Summer learnings

Just a recap of some things I’ve been studying.

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Simple Variable Buck Converter

Simple Variable Buck Converter

Yesterday I built a variable buck converter for fun. It allows you to vary an...

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Physics boat

Physics boat

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

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Converting particle devices to circuit python

Converting particle devices to circuit python

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

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PID Ramblings

PID Ramblings

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

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Updates Blog

Updates Blog

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

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Life 2.0 (Simulation)

Life 2.0 (Simulation)

Since learning how to program, I’ve always thought that it would be fun to make...

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Autoformer

Autoformer

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

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Complementary Filters for IMU Fusion

Complementary Filters for IMU Fusion

Let’s fuse sensors - simply!

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Club Python Tutorials

Club Python Tutorials

A learning opportunity… for everyone!

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Arduino Training Presentation

Arduino Training Presentation

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

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Space Invaders

Space Invaders

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

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Developing my mini CNC machine

Developing my mini CNC machine

The Coronavirus quarantine period was a terrible time for many people, but I tried to...

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2020 Top Books

2020 Top Books

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

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My First Post!

My First Post!

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

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