Ghana Garbage Sorter

Jan 2023 - Mar 2023

Description: We interacted with the Ghanian community as part of a design course and made a small scale model fully automated garbage sorter to help the garbage sorting issue. The sorter can separate organic, inorganic; metal, non-metal and heavy, light garbage.

Role: I led the mechanical and structural division of the team and was assigned the role of designing, CADing and fabricating the structural and mech aspects of the sorter. I was also responsible for testing the final prototype. A notable moment from my project experience was when I designed a wire curtain which would function as a conductivity test as well as open/close based on whether non-metal or metal garbage is in contact with the wire curtain.

Automated Kalimba Player

Feb 2023

Description: This Project was part of a make-a-thon in which participants had 24 hrs to come up with a design for a given category and make the physical project. The category my group and I chose was music. We made the Auto-Kalimba which is an automatic kalimba player in which inputting kalimba tabs outputted actual music played on the kalimba.

Role: Having the project divided into three subsystems dealing with the software, electrical and struct-fab. I was in-charge of the struct-fab aspect which dealt with designing and CADing the 3 axis gear servo system, the structural supports which hold up the gear system as well as fabricating the entire project using wood cutting and 3d printing. The gear system contained two servos moving the chassis in the y axis direction, one servo moving the hammer in the x axis and one small servo moving the hammer in the y-z plane to hit the kalimba tines. Allowing 3 degrees of freedom; two translational and one rotational DoF.

Alan Carswell Observatory Telescope

Jan 2022 - Apr 2022

Description: As a part of a design course, Praxis II, my team and I were tasked with creating a solution for the water dripping on the Alan Carswell Telescope at York University due to the leaky dome. The existing solution was a simple tarp covering the telescope.

Role: My role was that of the project manager and mechanical designer. As project manager I set the meeting agendas and made sure the team was on the right path during meetings while staying on track with our schedule. I was also responsible for making the team use design brainstorming such as 6-3-5 and matrix converging. My role as the mechanical designer entailed responsibilities such as CADing prospective prototypes as well as simulating how each solution would fair in comparison when water is dropped on them. These simulations helped us narrow down to the shape of a parabolic shape dome.