Hovercraft 2018
For the SciOly 2018 season, the numerous rule changes for the Hovercraft event proved a fun and respectable challenge.
For the SciOly 2018 season, the numerous rule changes for the Hovercraft event proved a fun and respectable challenge.
Ergonomic, economical, and manufacturable - these were the design goals of the cardboard chair for our final project in IB Design Tech.
Instead of studying for a math test, I spent a week coming up with the nerdiest promposal I could.
A half-joking but totally true recount of how I got into UC Berkeley.
Repurposing a toaster oven that’s older than I am to help out with reflow soldering.
With a bit of free time and a bunch of parts I had lying around, I constructed the 4th iteration of my lightsaber.
Star Wars themed salad tongs I made during IB Design Tech.
For a Physics C project, we built a mousetrap vehicle according to the SciOly rules for that year.
For my summer internship during junior year of high school, I worked at CalState LA designing a low-cost, lightweight robot arm for a teleoperation robot.
Seeing how much a 3D printer revolutionized my engineering, I decided to design and build my own CNC router.
What initially seemed simple turned out to be an incredibly fun and rewarding experience. An interesting challenge with a clever solution to match.
Tasked with the manipulation of stacks of pennies, I went through 4 revisions of robot arms before I had one good enough for the National competition.