Projects
Hardware, software, manufacturing experiments, and whatever else didn't fit neatly into a resume bullet. These include both my personal and professional projects. Each card expands into its own deep dive page fully explaining the project.
SVG-to-RAPID converter for six-axis ABB industrial robots. A Python and Flask tool that turns vector artwork into readable RAPID drawing programs with safe lift and traversal moves, then estimates run time. Hardware-validated on an IRB 1100 across five drawings, including one of roughly 3,000 strokes.
Voice-driven control for a physical ABB YuMi (IRB 14000). A fully local wake-word speech pipeline parses a spoken command, confirms it, and dispatches it over a socket protocol to RAPID on the robot. Running on the physical arm, backed by 44 green Python tests.
Aug 2026 to May 2027, in progress. Designing a robotic sampling and caching system for a future Psyche lander concept with the ASU / NASA Psyche Mission as industrial partner. Sample extraction across four hypothesized surface regimes (flat metallic, debris-covered metallic, rough metallic or rocky terrain, high-relief metallic crater walls) plus a single caching system able to store each sample type. Deliverables: calculations, simulations, and a design package, with physical prototyping if resources allow.
PIC-based optical sensor PCB measuring fluid clarity via light intensity.
Mechatronic cable-braiding prototype for in-space manufacturing, focused on integration and CAD.
Designed and built a $100 pontoon picnic table and stress-tested it on Arizona’s Salt River for 4 hours. Custom welded barrel brackets, pickup-legal transport, and no tip in 300 lb seesaw tests.
Structural statics study of two industrial scissor lifts analyzed during my robotics internship. Force multiplication, a full joint reaction map, and every load-path check against a 1000 kg target, with an honest punch list of open items. Independently re-derived by two adversarial verification passes.
A geometric linter for offline-generated ABB RAPID. It reconstructs every TCP path from the program text and asserts geometric invariants, catching frame-sign, orientation, and axis-mapping defects at the desk before robot time. Built after a real RobotDraw bug pressed a marker into the table. Pre-release, with 66 green tests.
A self-built Forge 1.16.5 mini-mod that adds koi fish to Minecraft. Koi spawn in water and school toward a player holding craftable pellets, and breed along a nine-colour ladder with three patterns each. Built end to end as a proof-of-workflow for a larger mod, and compiled to a loadable jar.
Built a modular LED pyramid stage prop in 9 days using PVC, 3D printed connectors, and shop lights.
A local decision-workflow prototype for semiconductor packaging (OSAT) operations. It compresses factory signals into executive-ready briefings, demonstrated on a synthetic dataset. Prototype quality, not deployed.