Sodium CubeSat Radio

January 2023 - December 2023

Sodium is an open source CubeSat radio I worked on during my final year in Michigan eXploration Laboratory. After many difficulties using the lab's expensive, off-the-shelf radios, we wanted to bring the firmware and designs back into the lab to improve our communications infrastructure.

My role was to develop schematics and PCB layout while another teammate conducted chip trade studies for this design. The PCB was manufactured and assembled by JLCPCB, with some rework by our team. Finally, I performed testing and characterization for this PCB while writing firmware for it.

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MARIO CubeSat

September 2020 - May 2023

MARIO was a 3U CubeSat designed to test piezoelectic actuators on orbit. The goal of the mission was to characterize how the performance of these actuators changes after being in space for different lengths of time.

I joined this project quite late in its development, so my role consisted of performing electrical and software checkouts, then debugging any issues that arose. Eventually, I also took on the role of leading the integration and testing process. After MARIO deployed to low earth orbit in December 2022, I operated it from MXL and SATNOGS ground stations until it deorbited in May 2023.

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Maize Toss: RFID-Enabled Cornhole Scoring

September 2023 - December 2023

Maize Toss was an automated cornhole scoring system developed for my senior design course at the University of Michigan, EECS 473. It uses an RFID reader connected to an antenna array underneath the cornhole board to detect beanbags that land on the board. Beanbags are outfitted with RFID tags to enable this detection.

My role was to develop drivers for the RFID chip our team used, the ST29R95. ST offers drivers for this chip, however, they did not work with our other software libraries, which is why we developed our own. I adapted an existing ISO14443A-based driver to implement ISO15693 functions for our project, including an anti-collision algorithm. Additionally, I helped design and test the antenna design. I also manufactured our beanbags.

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Celestial Mapping System @ NASA Ames

August 2021 - December 2021

Sodium is an open source CubeSat radio I worked on during my final year in Michigan eXploration Laboratory. After many difficulties using the lab's expensive, off-the-shelf radios, we wanted to bring the firmware and designs back into the lab to improve our communications infrastructure.

My role was to develop schematics and PCB layout while another teammate conducted chip trade studies for this design. The PCB was manufactured and assembled by JLCPCB, with some rework by our team. Finally, I performed testing and characterization for this PCB while writing firmware for it.

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Adaptive Cruise Control & Lane Keeping

January 2022 - April 2022

EECS 461, an embedded systems controls course at the University of Michigan, required all students to create the same final project: a MATLAB/Simulink model of a car with automated lanekeeping and adaptive cruise control.

Assembler, Linker, Pipeline, and Cache Simulator

January 2022 - April 2022

EECS 370, an introductory computer architecture course at the University of Michigan, required all students to complete four projects: simulators for assembling files, linking files, pipelining assembly instructions, and cache interactions.

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