This robot was built to automatically remove the adhesive seal from a microtiter plate. The robot will be integrated into an automated laboratory and will aid in high-throughput drug testing.
I've included some pictures of the entire design process including the preliminary assembly, some parts I machined, CAD screenshots, and a proof of concept prototype.
Take a Five is a productivity app that I built with Uttam Kumaran. It works by opening up a timed tab that will automatically close (self-destruct) when the time is up. It's been featured on Business Insider, Product Hunt, CNET, LifeHacker, along with many other sites.
We are working on growing the user base and are slowly monetizing with sponsored links.
The Drum Pal was our final project for a class called Creative System Design. I worked on a team with Kai Shi and Tina Tiongson. The project aimed to solve the problem of guitarists (like myself) not being able to produce an acoustic drum sound to keep a beat while playing. The Drum Pal uses two force sensing pedals, an Arduino, and two solenoid actuators to achieve this goal. In the pictures you can see the final product along with the first duct tape prototype.
This is a 16HP dune buggy that my friend and I made for our senior project in high school. It took us an entire month working 8-12 hours a day.
We built and wired everything from scratch including cutting and welding the steel frame. It has full suspension, 22" rear wheel tires, and front and top headlights.
The goal of this project was to create a fully automated fridge that the robot arm could place and remove plates from. A mini-fridge door was replaced with a sliding door so that the robot arm could slide it open and closed. The hotels and shelves were made from 3D printed PLA. This served as a cheap alternative to laboratory automation fridges that can cost upwards of $50,000.
GE tasked us with making a working prototype of a LED tube light. It needed to have LEDs pointing upwards and downwards so that either side could be turned on or off.
I cut and made the frame with 80/20 Aluminum and we designed and 3D printed most of the parts. The biggest challenge was in creating the filter to give the effect that it was just one light and not a bunch of independent LEDs. The rest of the pictures show the process that I designed and used to mold the filter to fit on the light properly.
This was part of the work that I did on a new patent design for a LED bulb configuration. These pictures are of some preliminary testing we did as a proof of concept. Unfortunately, I do not have images of the SolidWorks files in which we made more robust designs. I also included some images of the shop and printers that I worked with at Quirky.
This vice was my final project for my machining class. The body is made out of aluminum and I fabricated everything including the lead screw and brass bushings.
The first picture shows me and my friend, Alejandro, after winning 2nd place in the Bucknell Business Pitch Competition. We were given this big check (President Bravman spontaneously doubled our winnings) and space to work in the downtown incubator. The image below shows a mockup of the site we were working on at the time - Ignite.
I spilled my coffee two days in a row on the train and was determined to never do it again, so I designed and laser cut this simple cup holder…
