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Sheet 02 — Projects

Things I built because I wanted them to exist.

Most of what I make outside work is small, physical, and solves a problem I actually had. The joystick is the one that got a full write-up.

Detail A — Selected build 2020

The finished orange joystick and button panel on a desk in front of a monitor.
SCALE 1:2

Custom flight sim joystick

A joystick, throttle and button panel for PC flight simulators. Hall-effect sensors read pitch and roll off a pair of magnets, an Arduino Micro presents it to the PC as a game controller, and every structural part comes off an FDM printer.

The constraint was cost: anyone with a printer and some soldering practice should be able to build one.

Read the build

Details B — D Astrophotography →

A 3D printed orange bracket holding a red dot sight on a camera's hot shoe.
B — Astrophotography accessories. Red dot finder mounts, lens caps and sight brackets, designed and printed for my own rig.
A tiny resin printed cityscape standing on a Canadian penny for scale.
C — MSLA resin printing. Detail down to the scale of a penny, which is the point: it does what FDM can't.
A 3D printed soldering fume extractor with a fan and a carbon filter grill.
D — Soldering fume extractor. A fan, a carbon filter and a printed housing, built after one too many evenings over a hot iron.

Archive — McGill coursework 2015 — 2020

Engineering projects from my degree, kept for the record. Mechanical design, numerical methods, simulation and a lot of team projects.

Rebox box cutter
Capstone — process automation, team lead
2018 — 20
Solar Impulse gearbox
MATLAB design optimisation, two-stage compound
2017
Topology optimisation of an aerospace bracket
FEA — 41% weight reduction, printed metal
2019
Eco-redesign of a toaster
Design for environment — 81% lower impact
2019
Satellite orbit determination and GPS
Numerical methods — Newton-Raphson, least squares
2019
Industrial steam pipe insulation
Heat transfer — MATLAB, cost estimation
2019
Factory simulation and economic analysis
FlexSim — utilisation, lead time, break-even
2020
Automatic golf tee loader
Two degree-of-freedom robotic arm, team of six
2017
McGill Robotics drone — airframe lead
Composite airframe, fibreglass with carbon reinforcement
2017 — 18
McGill Formula Electric
Aerodynamics sub-team — carbon fibre layup
2015 — 17
Android time-management app
Agile SCRUM team of nine, back end and UI
2018
Mobile app requirements engineering
Elicitation, specification, traceability, validation
2018
McGill Engineering Competition — bronze
Re-engineering a rain gutter system in four hours
2017
Clap following robot
Three microphones triangulating a sound source
2017