I am a junior at OSU who enjoys working with digital logic and micro-controllers. I have worked on several past projects, both inside and outside of school. I am also part of the MECOP program and will be starting my first internship this spring at Jacobs in Portland.
For my junior design class, I just finished creating an autonomous sumo robot. This robot will hopefully be able to compete in a mini sumo robot match, but for testing purposes its goal was to push a block of wood out of a ring. It uses two ultrasonic sensors to locate the block and attempts to move toward the block until its color sensor detects that it has reached the edge. It is controlled by an Arduino Uno and can be manually controlled via Bluetooth from an Android app. You can find artifacts for the project here.
Outside of school I have made several projects with a Raspberry Pi. One program I made will use the openweathermap api to gather temperature and weather data and conveniently display them on an LCD. It has become a useful program that tells me what weather I should expect for the day. It will also compare the outside temperature with the temperature inside my room and tell me if I should open my window or not.
In the past I created a program with an Arduino that will turn on an LED whenever a light turns on in a room in my house. It will allow me to know when that light is on and reduce the risk of the light getting left on overnight, or longer. I later re-did this circuit and removed the need for a micro-controller entirely. The circuit was designed using an op amp as a voltage comparator.
I really like building and coding small circuits with micro-controllers but if the opportunity arises, I am more than willing to try something different.
