Projects
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Autonomous Ground Vehicle Robotic Research Platform
Fall 2009 - Spring 2010
Video on VimeoWorked with a fantastic team of seven and Draper Laboratories on my Olin College SCOPE Project to design and build an offroad robotics research platform. As a proof of concept, we made it autonomously follow GPS waypoints with half meter accuracy while preventing collision with obstacles using LIDAR. Video of final demo.
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Pangaea
Spring 2010
http://inpangaea.appspot.comYou know that clock the Weasleys have in Harry Potter that points to where everyone in the family is? An Android phone, an Arduino, and a hobby servo gets you pretty darn close.
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Twanslator
Summer 2009
http://twanslator.appspot.comEver wish you spoke another language so you could have more followers in Europe? Now you can! Twanslator watches your tweets and automatically reposts them in a foreign language.
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Super Marra Bothers
Summer 2009 - Present
http://www.supermarrabrothers.comMy brother Chris and I keep doing things in different places during school breaks. This blog documented our hijinks far from home.
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Mural for Android
Spring 2009
http://www.grgmrr.com/projects/muralMural turns your Android phone's wallpaper into a social experience. Automatically post your phone's wallpaper to Facebook for your friends to see, and get suggestions from your friends for newer (better!) wallpapers than the one you have.
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Yawnlog
Winter 2009
http://www.yawnlog.comYawnlog is a website to help you track your sleep. You may ask, "Why would I ever need a sleep tracker?" Maybe a better question is why wouldn't you need a sleep tracker?
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One Velociraptor per Child
Fall 2008
http://www.velociraptorz.orgMost of the nearly two billion children in the developing world have inadequate access to dinosaurs. Some receive no paleontology training at all. One in three has never even seen a dinosaur in person. The One Velociraptor Per Child project set out to fix this dire situation.
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Biomimetic Fish Robots
Fall 2008
http://vimeo.com/2032734I worked with a team to design prototype several biomimetic swimming robots. One was this stingray, powered by a singed motor. The full design, fabrication, and assembly timeline was two weeks. More photos on Flickr.