![Asensus Luna System](https://zbrown.us/img/luna-system.png)
Asensus Luna System
Over my three summers with Asensus, I contributed various bits and pieces to the Luna system. I worked on the next-gen instruments, the system which detects the presence and kind of instrument in the arm, and finally the power supply architecture of the system.
![Fuse Blast picture](https://zbrown.us/img/blast.webp)
Fuse Blast
When I was an intern at Formlabs in the summer of 2023, I worked on embedded hardware and software for Fuse Blast. This involved embedded C++ development, hardware debugging and troubleshooting, and a ton of other skills you would expect someone in hardware development to learn. You can learn more about Blast here.
![Halloween Video](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/Zb01RStdzEs/maxresdefault.jpg)
Mark Rober's Candy Robot
In October 2023, my friend Ian Charnas asked me to help out as a production assistant for Mark Rober’s 2023 Halloween video.
![picture of Servo Controller PCB](https://zbrown.us/img/servo-controller.jpeg)
Servo Controller
Servo Controller is the PCBA on the 2023 Baja SAE car that was responsible for actuating our four-wheel drive system. In essence, it is a high current buck regulator supervised by a Raspberry Pi RP2040. Reality is always more complicated than that though, so let’s look at some specifics. The Mechanical System On CWRU Motorsports’ four-wheel drive vehicles, we use a dog-clutch to connect our rear and front driveline together through a chain....