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 …