Portfolio
Discussion of Oil Filter Cleaner and Composter Projects
Created by MIT's Public Service Center for presentation at MIT's 2008 Commencement.
Oil Filter Cleaner
I was one of two students elected to lead the 18-person team that designed this machine (named Cyclos) for a 2.009, a senior-level product design course. We created a machine to help solve the problem of water pollution caused by the disposal of used oil filters that haven't been entirely drained. During the 3-month class the team went through a few rounds of brainstorming, mock-ups and testing before deciding on the final design. Our final presentation was ranked first out of seven teams by the audience of professors, students and industry experts.
2.007 Competition Robot
Below is the competition table. The goal was to outscore your opponent by getting as many balls into the lower bins as possible within 45 seconds.
I co-designed this robot with classmate Abby Carey, but each of us built our own robot for competition. Both machines placed in the top 10% of 160 robots. Two remote-controlled motors powered the machine. The first triggered four constant-force springs (not modeled) to pull the arm down and forward over row of balls. This motion actuated the top catcher to flip down over the balls and capture them behind the one-way gate at the front. Once the balls were covered, the arm (with the springs now detached) was winched and pulled back up the ramp, allowing the balls to fall through the hole and roll down the table into the scoring bins. The machine was designed to be assembled for use on either side of the table.
Composter
Injection Molded and Thermoformed Yo-Yo
I created this yo-yo as a member of a five-person team in a design and manufacturing class. The two halves of the yo-yos were injection molded and the clear cover was thermoformed. I was in charge of designing and producing the thermoformed pieces. I produced Run Charts and Shewhart X-bar Charts from from a production of 100 pieces.
Kitchen Blogging Device
This device allows users to videotape themselves cooking, edit the videos with a simple one-button interface and post the resulting to a cooking blog
Lighting Fixture
Designed during internship for Cooper-Perkins design firm to display a set of
Color Kinetics lights that the firm had worked on.
RFID Table Enclosure
Flexible LCD EReader
Foamboard Prototypes
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