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A collection of things I've built, from embedded hardware to lab software.

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Bottle Counter CAD drawing
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Bottle Counter

A device that sits on top of a bin and counts returnable bottles as they're dropped in. Tracks deposit totals so you always know what your stash is worth before a trip to the store.

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Arduino CAD 3D Printing Embedded
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Thin-Film Solar Cell

Thin-Film Solar Cell

Fabricated a CuO/ZnO heterojunction solar cell on FTO glass. Process included electrodeposition of copper, thermal oxidation, ZnO sputtering, and aluminum contact deposition. Characterized with AFM, SEM, and a Keithley 2400 solar simulator.

Electrodeposition Sputtering AFM SEM Nano
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Silicon Wafer Oxidation SEM cross-section

Silicon Wafer Oxidation

Thermal oxidation of silicon at 1000°C with Arrhenius modeling using Deal-Grove theory. Generated growth datasets via NanoHub simulation, extracted activation energies, and compared to experimental results characterized by AFM and SEM.

Deal-Grove Arrhenius AFM SEM Nano
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Arduino RC Car

Arduino RC Car

DCC Capstone 2024. Two-Arduino RC system with one transmitter and one receiver, using NRF24L01 2.4GHz wireless communication, HC-SR04 obstacle detection, ultrasonic distance feedback on an LCD, and custom 3D-printed chassis and steering rack.

Arduino Mega NRF24L01 3D Printing Electronics
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Voice-Activated Joke Bot built on SUNY Poly mascot

Voice-Activated Joke Bot

Animatronic plush mascot built on an Arduino Nano RP2040 Connect. Detects a voice trigger word via the onboard microphone using a Cyberon library, then sends a spoken response through an Emic 2 text-to-speech module. Furby gear train drives the face animation.

Arduino RP2040 Voice Recognition TTS Animatronics
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Assembled Portable Sensor Bay with touchscreen

Portable Sensor Bay

Raspberry Pi 5 + 7" touchscreen platform for hot-swappable industrial sensors. Built for predictive maintenance: swap I2C sensors (thermal, ultrasonic) without rewiring. Real-time visualization, I2S audio, 3D-printed enclosure.

Raspberry Pi I2C Python 3D Printing Electronics
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AFM Scan to 3D Print STL file preview

AFM Scan to 3D Print

Pipeline to convert nanoscale AFM surface scans into STL files and 3D-print physical models of otherwise invisible surface structures. Built as an outreach and visualization tool for the nanotechnology lab.

AFM STL Conversion 3D Printing Nano
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AFM Z-Height scan of ETC484-HkJc sample

Interactive AFM Surface Viewer

Real AFM scan data rendered live in the browser as an interactive 3-D heightmap using Three.js. 65,536 vertices displaced from actual instrument data. Drag to orbit, change colormaps, adjust height scale.

Three.js AFM WebGL Nano
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Project videos

I occasionally document projects on YouTube — build logs and lab walkthroughs.

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