DRONES FOR CONDOR RESTORATION
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For the past couple of years, I've had the pleasure of spending some of my time in the Arizona desert with the Peregrine Fund, contributing to the restoration of the critically endangered California Condor. Much of the work I did involved drones, so, over the years, I've hand built a couple of drones.
INDIVIDUAL RESEARCH PROJECT: THE BALL VALVE
For the first individual project of the PLTW Engineering Design & Development class, students were instructed to research a solution to a simple design problem and create a presentation demonstrating the problem, design process, and solution. I chose to research the ball valve. As it turns out, this daily piece of engineering design is nowhere close to a simple solution.
ELECTRONIC TOLLBOOTH
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For this activity in my junior year PLTW Digital Electronics class, we were instructed to design a system that
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The project consisted of creating a state graph, a transition table, and six simplified logic expressions that controlled the gate arm. In our final implementation, we included both a circuit design created in Multisim as well as an action coded into an Arduino system.
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Finally, we built a physical tollbooth that operated based on the code we wrote. This can be seen in the video.
FIXING IPHONES
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Since the day I realized how much Apple charges to fix an iPhone, I've been fixing every phone I can get my hands on. I've fixed my sister's old iPhone 3G, my uncle's iPhone 5, my friend's iPhone XS, and everything between. And as we all do, I've made some mistakes in the process.
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One of the greatest challenges we face in the world of hardware and technology is developing interfaces between the physical, human world, and the digital computer world. I recently ran into an issue with the small joystick which controls my computer monitor, and so I had to take it apart and fix it.