Last spring, I took an introduction to EECS class on embedded systems, where we used ESP32 microcontrollers to create internet-connected devices. For my final project in this class, I worked with my partner Patrick Wang to create BreakfastBot. BreakfastBot is a small autonomous robot built to deliver snacks to your current location. Users can go to the BreakfastBot website and input their room number and snack choice. Upon receiving a command, BreakfastBot dispenses the desired snack and drives to the selected room. Then, once the user receives their snack, the robot returns to its base station and waits for the next command. Here is our project proposal.

During my senior year of high school, my partner Rachel Sussman and I participated in the 2017 MSSEF competition. Our project studied music and memory, and we were trying to determine whether hearing information presented as song lyrics rather than as spoken words would increase retention, and if so which genre of music helped the most with recalling the words. My role was to create a computer program using Java that would play the songs and spoken words that my partner composed and recorded, and provide a way for participants to input the words they remembered after hearing the recordings and store the data. Here is a link to our abstract. Our project recieved honorable mention in the state science fair.

For a maker fair at Einstein's Workshop, a STEM workshop in Burlington, MA, I designed 3D printed interactive digital logic gates. Users could turn dials to "zero" or "one" to simulate input, and then roll a marble down a track and watch it come out of one of two possible exits (the "output"). For the maker fair, I created an AND gate, an OR gate, and a multiplexer using Tinkercad.

As a senior in high school, I attended HackNEHS, a hackathon at Microsoft in Burlington. With a group of four people (myself, Ian Bulovic, Ian Burwell, and Evan Weissburg), I worked on creating a program which efficiently finds the shortest path between two user-chosen points through a maze or floor plan. After the 12 hour hackathon ended, we continued to improve on our program for the next few months, eventually putting it up on the Android Google Play store as Breadcrumbs Pathfinding.

A few years ago, I built a MendelMax FDM 3D printer from a kit. Since then, I have been designing and printing models and experimenting with different materials. More recently, I got an upgrade kit and attached a second extruder for multicolor and multimaterial prints. Here is a link to some of my designs made using Tinkercad. Currently, I'm working on a syringe system to make my 3D printer print with pancake batter, although that is not functional yet.