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Accessible Prosthetics Initiative
Visit us at our Website: Accessible Prosthetics Initiative
Valueable Skills Learned: Leadership, 3D printing ,Communication, Teamwork
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As production lead, I lead a team of engineers in Research and Development of 3D Printed prosthetic arms. This includes material , sustainability, biomechanics, and viability of 3D printing analyzes of the UnLimbited Arm v.02 by E-Nable
As the president(Jan-Dec 2021), I set goals for the OSU chapter of API and coordinate with the nonprofit API and chapters in other states to ensure we push API forward efficiently.
The Accessible Prosthetics Initiative (API) is 501(c)(3) organization that believes prosthetics should be available to those who need them. API tackles this goal in a holistic manner through community outreach and education about open-source 3D-printed prosthetics, connecting amputees to resources in their area, and distributing 3D Printed prosthetics. Our mission is to create a self-sufficient community that is able to not only produce their prosthetics as they need it, but also have access to vital resources such as support groups and prosthetic clinics.
Media, Marketing, Communication Scholars: Digital Lab-Creative Development Team
Creative Development Team Video
Research Development Team Video
Valueable Skills Learned: After Effects, Teamwork, Storyboarding, Narrating
Using Adobe After Effects, I created the motion graphics for the Creative Development team video and Research Develop team video. I also narrated both videos.
The Creative Development team in the MMC Digital Lab consists of Graphics and Video production students developing work for MMC Scholars and The Ohio State university.
Assistive Technology Project
Left Side Poster Board Link
Center Poster Board Link
Right side Poster Board Link
Valueable Skills Learned: Assistive Technology development, Humanitarian Engineering, Solidworks, Research & Development, woodworking
For my senior year at Hilliard Davidson High School, I worked with one other person to develop an assistive device for the special educaiton students. This project was in conjunction with Engineering Design & Development, the final course in the Project Lead the Way curriculum. In the project, we developed a cart to help the special education students lift heavy objects. Many of the special-ed students at physical handicaps, and many worked janitorial jobs at Davidson. The cart alleviated any phsyical strain of carrying heavy objects such as buckets of water, mops, trash bags, and others throughout the lunch room. We built a prototype out of wood and bought a cart off of Amazon and made the appropriate modifcations to it before giving them the cart.
MMC:The Scholars Program Video
The Ohio State University: Scholars Program
Valueable Skills Learned: Premiere Pro, directing, interviewing
One of my first filmmaking jobs. I worked with one other person to shoot, dierct, edit, and produce a promotional video for the Scholars Program at The Ohio State University.The video detalis the experiences, community, and personal growth a student can experience going through the Scholars program at the Ohio State University.
T.A.G: The Affordable Gimbal Project
The Affordable Gimbal Project Report PDF
Gimbal Components Video:
The Affordable Gimbal PowerPoint
Valueable Skills Learned: Initiative, Solidworks, Fritz diagrams, Written Communication
The purpose was the build an affordable cellphone gimbal with 3-axis stabilization and joystick control using entirely Arduino components. Due to the COVID pandemic, I was unable to physical build the model, however, I could test the component functionality. The total cost of the 3-axis stabilization gimbal with joystick operation was $40 which is relatively affordable compared to the $90-100 counterparts.
MMC: Solidworks
Link to Solidworks video
Valueable Skills Learned: Solidworks, Premiere Pro, Narration
In this project, I created a promotional video for the solidworks project group offered by the Media, Marketing, and Communication Scholars program to all Ohio State University student. The video provides a general synopsis of the 8 week project course.
The Use of Soft Magnetic Actuator in Medical Intubation
Link to Poster Soft Magnetic Actuator project
Valueable Skills Learned: Initiative, Reserach, Patent Research, Medical Devices, Soft Robotics
The aim of the project was improving the accuracy of medical intubation-the process of placing a breathing tube to into the throat of a patient to pump air into their lungs- using soft magnetic robots. The robots were made of an elastomer and were actuated by magnetic fields.
During medical intubation, the breathing tube can go into the esophagus instead of the trachea and manytimes medical professionals are performing intubation in a moving ambulance, so mistakes are common. My design, when performed on a medical mannequin, produced a 90% success rate of entering the trachea rather than the esophagus.
Buckeye Leadership Fellows: Mid-Ohio Food Collective
Link to Mid-Ohio Food Collective Presentation
Valueable Skills Learned: Failure Analysis, Leadership, Consulting, Research
Through the Buckeye Leadership Fellows program, I lead a team of 3 other students on a consulting project involving the Mid-Ohio Food Collective (MOFC). The aim of the project was to provide reccomendations on how MOFC could retain their current volunteer force and reach out to new volunteers amid the COVID pandemic.
After weeks of research, my team and I provided 3 reccomendations that utilizes Ohio State University's vast and diverse student population.
This project challenged me as a leader. Two of my teammates experienced dire personal circumstances and stepped away from the project leaving me and one other person to finish the project. Though we had provided 3 good reccomendations, we did not provide the right reccomendations.
The 3 reccomendations we provided were long-term solutions that would prevent MOFC from ever having large volunteer issues again, but that does not solve the current problem.
I failed as a leader because I was stuck thinking long-term when I should have thought about the current issue at hand with less focus on long-term solutions. This experienced taught me the value of thinking both long-term and short-term, and how we must solve the short-term problems quickly so that we can create long-term solutions.
Action Actuators
More info on Action Actuators project & TEK8 can be found here
Valueable Skills Learned: STEM teaching, 3D printing, Actuators
Translating Enginering to K-8 (TEK8) program at Ohio State University takes engineering concepts learned in the research lab and teaches them to elementary and middle school students.
I took my research from the Soft Intelligent Materials Laboratory and created a design challenge for KIPP Academy elementary and middle school students. The challenge was taking a complex topic and breaking into something the students could understand. I took the topic of actuators and built a design challenge based on actuators. Breaking the concept of actuators into simple topics and relating them to everyday objects was key for the elementary and middle school students to understand properly.
Prosthetic Pylon Stress Analysis
Link to poster of Prosthetic Pylon Project
Valueable Skills Learned: Solidworks, Finite Element Analysis, Research
For my Mechanics of Materials course at The Ohio State University, I worked on a team that looked at the stress developed in the pylon of the prosthetic leg. We used different metals and analyzed the deformation, cost, strength, and weight of the pylon. Out of the 3 designs we tested, we found the composite cylinder to be the most optimal in terms of strength and cost.
Homework Help Volunteer at the Columbus Metropolitan Library
Valueable Skills Learned: Teaching,
communication, gaining mastery in school subjects
I have volunteered for over 200 hours one day a week since September 2017. I have tutored students K-12th grade on subjects varying from elementary science to middle school social studies to high school geometry. I have also taught younger students how to read. I will continue volunteering as a homework help tutor for the foreseable future.
Project Lead the Way Documentary
Link to PLTW Documentary (2 min 57 sec)
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Valueable Skills Learned: Interviewing, Editing, Research
I worked with one other student to write, shoot, and edit this documentary. I also lead the team to organize the final poster show with all 3 Hilliard High schools, and had my own project: The Assistive Device Cart for the Special Education students on display at the show.
The Project Lead the Way (PLTW) documentary covers the final poster show of the year for the students at Hilliard City Schools in the Engineering Design & Development course.
Accessible Prosthetics Initiative: Nonprofit
Visit us at our Website: Accessible Prosthetics Initiative
Valueable Skills Learned: Leadership, Project Management,Communication, Teamwork
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The Accessible Prosthetics Initiative (API) is a pending 501(c)(3) organization that believes prosthetics should be available to those who need them. API tackles this goal in a holistic manner through community outreach and education about open-source 3D-printed prosthetics, connecting amputees to resources in their area, and distributing 3D Printed prosthetics. Our mission is to create a self-sufficient community that is able to not only produce their prosthetics as they need it, but also have access to vital resources such as support groups and prosthetic clinics.
As a board member, I help make valuable decisions on the direction of the organization. I help manage the other chapters and provide advice on how to run certain projects.
I have been with API since it began in 2019 and I provide advice for current president of chapters on how to approach certain projects from building a 3D printed prosthetic arm to managing a communications networking among the team members.
The experiences and work I have done with API since it began has been invaluable in shaping me as a person and enigneer.
MoStories: Weekly Stories/Screenplays
Link to MoStories site
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Valueable Skills Learned: Storytelling, Creativity, communication
I started writing weekly in February 2020 to get better a writing, communication, and talking about ideas in my head. Ideas came from anywhere. I wanted to explore any genre and subject and try my hand at creating engaging worlds for readers.
Later on I realized how prevalent stories were in life and in my career. This morphed from a casual hobby to an exercise in telling better stories.
Center for Design and Manufacturing Excellence:
Artificially Intelligent Manufacturing Systems Lab
Link to Artificially Intelligent Manufacturing Sytems Lab site
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Valueable Skills Learned: Python, Computer Vision
I started working in AIMS lab in May 2021. The initial project was to have a robotic arm see an object, pick it up, and move it to a different location which is a common task in warehouses and manufacturing plants. From then, we expanded into more computer vision tasks from recognizing object orentation, color, and object tracking.
As of 9/2021, we're working on having the robot play tic-tac-toe with a human. We're polishing the code to make it more robust to varying lighting conditions and board conditions. The camera sees the board and sends the data to the robot and using a Minimax Algorithm, we determine the next best move, and we send that data to the robot.
We use a system called ROS (robot operating system) that allows different programming languages to communicate with each other without needing to convert the code. For example, we can have a C++ script turns on the camera to read the tic-tac-toe board & send the next best move data to the robot which runs on a Python script.
The AIMS Lab provides an industry-relevant venue to develop and optimize novel, hybridized manufacturing processes, design and test custom sensors and controls, study and advance human-robot interaction, benchmark cognitive computing frameworks, and define security and ethics based protocols.In the AIMS Lab, researchers are leveraging the robustness of proprietary automation systems with the flexibility of open-source technologies to support the next generation of manufacturing.
More can be read about the Tic-Tac-Toe Project here:Tic-Tac-Toe Wiki
2021 Ohio State University Sustainability Institute Grant Recipient
Valueable Skills Learned: Leadership, Grant writing,
communication
My team and I won the Sustainability grant to build a recycling program at OSU that revolves around taking waste plastic and converting it into usable 3D printing filament. Since OSU's a research university, many places on campus using 3D printing. Additionally, many of those places toss failed 3D prints in the trash. We can start with recycling the failed 3D prints and turn them back into usable filament.
The recyclebot was developed my Michigan Technological Professor Dr. Joshua Pearce and his team. The design is entirely open source and can be built for around $700.
Stages of the Grant:
- May - Dec: Building & testing the recyclebot
- Jan - Apr: implementing the recycling program to collect the waste plastic & convert it into 3D printing filament.
Project Conclusion:
- The robot was not finished due to many issues with the code and wiring.
More can be read about the Recyclebot here:
Link to Recyclebot Paper
CDME: Light Painting Project
Valueable Skills Learned: Python, Cartesian Motion planning
Light Painting is a photography technique that uses long exposure shots to takes any light.
Using an RGB LED attached to an Arduino, we had the robot trace out images to test reliable Cartesian motion using ROS MoveIt.
Link to the Light Painting Wiki here: Light Painting Wiki
Arduino RFID Swipe Access Project
Valueable Skills Learned: Arduino, Wiring, Fritzing
An Arduino UNO was used with the RFID module along with a buzzer to develop a swipe access machine. The white RFID card would be swipped across the RFID module, an RGB LED would indicate if the swipe is successful, and then a piezoelectric buzzer would provide an audible feedback for access granted or denied.
Link to video of RFID Swipe Access Proejct here: Arduino Card Swipe Reader