As of 2021, I’ve been involved with Tortuga Agtech working with fruit-picking robots to help address the current labor shortage in agriculture (and hopefully doing it in a way that creates better, more interesting jobs rather than just replacing human pickers). In my time at Tortuga, as their first UK hire, and only UK based …
Recently I’ve been helping out Tane Van Der Boon down in New Zealand and his project to track and help protect endangered populations of aquatic mammals, and particularly Maui dolphins around the north island of New Zealand, of which there are only 63 individuals left (hence the name, Maui63). I’ve been helping out with pipelines …
My MSc dissertation!
A short-term project that isn’t quite complete, but an interesting snippet of things I do in my free time!
A simple E-Bike project whose main goal is reuse and anti-theft. The concept is simple, I already have a motor and electronics left over from my longboard project (I’m not really a skater anyways, but I do like power electronics), and I’d rather my bike look as cheap and uninteresting as possible to wannabe thieves. …
Originally, this longboard was meant to be built as a 3-wheeled board, and thats how it was designed. I had planned to machine the back “truck” out of aluminum and put a scooter wheel slightly through the hole for the dropdown trucks to keep it mostly level with the front wheels (which as you can …
The preview is somewhat misleading as that is V1 of my folding tricopter adventures. An updated version can be seen on my old blog (which is mainly abandoned due to it being more difficult to maintain and update than a wordpress site). After a mediocre flight due to poor yaw authority, I decided to upgrade …
A recent project involving robots, Linux Servers, ROS, and 3D printed gearboxes. The robot is running off of one 280W solar panel, which is more than enough to fry that 6Ah gel battery in full sun. It has been switched out prior to operation.The brains of the robot consist of one single raspberry pi, with …
A simple powered glider for soaring without worrying about topography. Largely inspired by the SolarFlight Sunseeker Duo. The analysis was performed in XFLR5 based on CAD model mass properties. The tail in the post image (as currently build as of January 2021) is smaller than it should be, especially since the tail boom was made …
