Overview This is a robotic arm that I worked on for my capstone class at California State University Long Beach to round out my mechanical engineering degree. The goal of this project was to design a custom manipulator, then program a robotic arm to control a manipulator to screw bolts into a threaded bolt hole. …
Here’s another video demonstrating the progress of my Dorna 2 robotic arm senior project, this time with narration. To summarize briefly, as of last week I successfully tied the Dorna 2 API to Robot Operating System (ROS) and MoveIt. My implementation isn’t perfect, but this is a start, and this sets the groundwork to allow …
Senior Project Update: MoveIt,ROS, and Dorna 2 API Integration! Read More »
The Update: In part 1 of the update to my undergraduate senior project at Cal State Long Beach, I said I would be updating regularly my progress. Well, that hasn’t happened like I hoped I would. I have a proper part 2 update about 50% written in my drafts on this website, but a lot …
This will be the first in what I hope will be a series of posts detailing the progress on my senior project at California State University Long Beach. In this post I will first give a quick overview of what we are supposed to accomplish in my senior project, my groups’ current progress, and my …
My Undergraduate Senior Project Progress Part 1 – Circle Detection Read More »
Overview: This is a self-balancing, inverted pendulum robot that I built and programmed! The final result you see above is the result of the dedication of about a year’s worth of work in my free time outside of school and a failed initial prototype. In this blog post I will go into way too much …
Overview: Project Timeframe: June 2015 – February 2017 This was a 3D printer I designed and built to satisfy my high school’s senior project requirement and also to learn more about 3D printing. I had become fascinated with 3D printing when my high school’s robotics team first received a couple of Makerbot Replicator 2 3D …
Overview: June 2014 – August 2015 This is the tricopter “drone” I built starting in June of 2014. I had outgrown the quadcopter I built previously, and I was enamored by David Windestal’s tricopter videos, and thought a tricopter would be a really interesting next step to explore aerial cinematography and first person view (FPV) …
Overview: August 2013 – May 2014 This project began after I read a Servo magazine article my freshman year of high school extensively detailing the steps required to scratch build a quadcopter. I was familiar with multirotors but this article was mind-blowing because I didn’t really consider someone could actually BUILD something as cool as …