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.
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.
In October 2023, my friend Ian Charnas asked me to help out as a production assistant for Mark Rober’s 2023 Halloween video.
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....