A catalogue of things I've designed and built — embedded hardware, software, and hobby work. Filter by category to narrow it down.
As a Ride Controls Software Engineer, I designed and implemented the control software for the Seven Dwarfs Mine Train at Shanghai Disneyland — a best-in-class, family-oriented roller coaster.
Math + creativity = fun. I study game design and have developed two board games, balancing mechanics, math, and playtesting into something genuinely fun.
A miniature but fully functional roller coaster built for the WDI Open House — PLC-controlled with real block-zoning logic that detects dangerous situations like a valleying train and brings the system to a safe state.
Pursuing an active lifestyle on two wheels — cycling is how I get outdoors and stay moving between projects.
The website for IEEE-USA's Student Professional Awareness (SPAx) program — built to promote and organize student professional-experience events.
A modular Natcar designed as an educational platform — built from an analog front end, a full-featured BLDC motor controller, a power board, and a microcontroller board so other students can extend and redesign it.
Integrating passion with skill — creative work outside of engineering that keeps the design muscles sharp.
A dynamic maze-solving micromouse — built to navigate and map an unknown maze on the fly.
A maze-solving algorithm visualization GUI — step through and watch different maze-solving strategies explore and converge in real time.
The knowledge base for UCLA IEEE's Open Project Space (OPS) program — a wiki documenting projects, hardware, and how-to guides for student members.
A finger-sized, low-cost charger that tops up three lithium-polymer batteries at once for about $2.50 per charger — built to support UCLA IEEE's OPS program instead of paying $10 per single charger.
A compact 80 mm × 80 mm micromouse robot with every component for precise movement mounted on a single PCB — including a Bluetooth port and a 6-DOF inertial measurement unit.
A top-down shooter game — a hobby game-development project exploring movement, enemy waves, and shooting mechanics.
A Natcar automation platform — the software framework behind the modular Natcar work, coordinating sensing, control, and motor drive.
A sequential music generator — a clone of the classic ToneMatrix that turns a grid of toggled cells into looping melodies.
A logistics algorithm visualization GUI — lays out routing and logistics algorithms graphically so their decisions can be inspected step by step.
A sound-driven light interface that pulses Christmas lights in time with music — a simple, festive take on an audio equalizer.
A telepresence robot driven over Skype — call the robot to get its live video/audio feed, then steer it with typed commands or a vision-based virtual joystick. Zero client-side setup beyond Skype.
My passion for drums — playing rock and blues with a group of fellow engineering students who gather to step away from rigorous studies and just have fun with music.
My first foray into robotics — a path-following robot built with a team at Skyline College, based on the Society of Robots "$50 Robot", and presented at an undergraduate research symposium at Stanford.
Capturing moments in my life — a hobby that started in 2009 with a used Nikon D200 handed down from my dad, a fellow Nikon shooter.
A summer research project (NSF / Auburn University) that derived a working dog's motions from noisy sensor data using a machine learner and GUI — built around Major, a Labrador Retriever wearing a remote sensing and comms package.