Projects

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Academic/Engineering/Things-That-Might-Make-It-Onto-a-Portfolio

  • Grippi – MIT Product Engineering Process (2.009), Fall 2022: A powered assistive gripper for users with limited hand mobility
  • A Co-Design Experience – Technologies for Rural Sustainability in Colombia (Jan 2022 – Aug. 2022): Collaboration with Red Mujer, a rural women’s collective in Colombia, on the design & dissemination of locally-made tools for community control of the invasive gorse plant (Ulex europaeus)
  • MIT D-Lab Design (2.722), Spring 2022: A stair-climbing wheelchair prototype made using recycled bicycle parts for Latin American households
  • MIT D-Lab: Development (11.025), Fall 2021: A solar-powered water desalination system for low-cost drought mitigation in southern Madagascar
  • Project NorthStar: an open-source augmented reality (AR) headset system developed by Combine Reality and NOA Labs (Sept. 2020 – Feb 2021)
    • A vertically translatable camera calibration system
    • A magnetically attachable calibration clip capable of multi-directional translation
    • A simplified calibration bracket, top case, and modular camera holder
  • Ampli “Coney Island” System: A modular paper microfluidic system for drug synthesis (June 2020 – Aug. 2020)
  • Zap-pore: A low-cost electroporation tool for education and exploration (June 2020 – Aug. 2020)
  • A microfluidics model for investigating optimal co-culture conditions for treatment of bacterial vaginosis (Feb. 2020 – May 2020)
  • The “Franken-Walker”: A foldable, wheeled shower and toilet chair for paraplegic patients (Feb. 2020)
  • A Low-Cost, Portable Precision Pressure Controller to Drive Microfluidic Systems (June 2019 – Aug. 2019)
  • A Viking-ship inspired seaplane (Feb. 2019 – May 2019)

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Miscellaneous (the fun stuff)

  • Readings: Originally “Quarantine Readings,” in which I try to complete at least one book a week to make up for the four years of high school when I literally did not read a single thing (thanks SparkNotes). Now, this is just a list of books I’ve read in the past few months (because I like making lists).
  • Writings (a.k.a. please motivate me to actually write)
  • Learn Russian! Current progress: negative
  • Get better at French! Progrès en cours: j’habitais dans La Maison Française