Engineer, Designer, Builder
Background Through 2.008 at MIT, our team designed and created 50 functional yo yo’s. Each yo yo consists of two body halves, two enclosing plates which can attach to lego bricks and through which a Lego minifig is visible, and a thermoformed bubble to keep the minifigs inside the yo yos. We built molds for…
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Background As a part of MIT’s capstone mechanical engineering course (2.009, Product Engineering Process), I was a part of a 20-person team. Together, we designed, ideated, prototyped and ultimately produced a beta-level product – Vantage. Our product was designed with the goal to provide children an opportunity to explore and learn about their surrounding world. With…
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Background My final research paper can be found here: Investigating Effects of Temperature on the Output Pitch of an Alto Saxophone During MIT’s measurement and instrumentation course, I investigated the effects of lowering temperature on an instrument to determine how musicians (specifically alto sax players) can counter freezing cold temperatures which impact pitch and overall…
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Background Accessibility and quality. A friend of mine is a budding force who works as a staff writer for a TV series in LA. While he was studying, he found trouble accessing an accurate, portable, controllable and affordable (<$200) camera slider – so I set out to build one for him and others in his…
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