Additional Engineering & Art Projects

Here Are Some More Projects I Did in Engineering and Art Throughout High School

In this project, I designed a sumo bot with a custom created car shell. At the end, I even participated in the tournament, although I focused more on aesthetics for my robot :)

The side gears on each side of the robot and the main chassis of the car is all lazer cut out of plywood. The rest of it is 3D printed. To increase the weight of the car, I ended up placing rocks in place of the battery, and relocating the battery to in between the two DC motors, vertically.

This project focused on using an ultrasonic sensor to navigate through a maze. I designed my robot with two wheels and an additional balancing cone. The entire robot is lazer cut out of plywood.

With the first few models not falling the way I wanted them to fall, I tried increasing the surface area on the final design, however that surface area was not enough to keep it afloat. If I were to do this again, I would find a way to create a retractable mechanism to increase surface area in a limited space. Also I would try to increase it's weight to ensure it falls correctly. I have tried to do that here, but it wasn't enough weight underneath the system.

In this project, I used FoilSim to create my own airfoil design and lazer cut it. Then connected the airfoils together to form a wind turbine. Even though the day I placed it outside wasn't an extremely windy day, it still collected some mixed data.

In this project, the challenge was to use a flimsy and easily breakable wood, balsa wood, to create a tower which can support all of the weight. My first design, the square one, surprisingly was able to carry all the weights more sturdily than my second design, which was the triangular one. The T shaped structures seemed to be much more impactful on the sides when carrying weight which is why the first one may have succeeded more easily. They both did end up succeeding though, by carrying all the weight.

The goal of this project was to design a bridge using cardstock which can hold as much weight as possible. My first prototype was way to small in length which made it slip without reaching it's full potential. The extenders, which you can see in the image, helped reach it's true potential and allowed it to hold a substantial amount of weight!

Being one of my first time 3D printing, I experimented with creating a custom nose cone custom lazer cut wings for a rocket and then launching it.

This is a lego project I did in replicating the lego piece in drawing.

Here is a still life project I did in replicating a pumpkin. I got to experiment with drapery and the shapes and shadows it creates.

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