Robots that I have built and worked with over the years.

My current work at CoroWare allows me to play with this cool robot.

  I interned for Microsoft and worked on the new Microsoft Robotics Studio. I contributed mostly to the fischertechnik and Lego NXT services. I continue to work with MSRS on many projects. Here are some of my add-ons.

Working on this mobile manipulation platform was a big challenge.

Me in front of boxes of Scribbler robots for the IPRE project.

      We competed in RoboCup Rescue in the 2006 US Open and 2007 competitions. Here are some old videos.

During a summer internship at Iguana Robotics, Inc. I had the opportunity to help design and build a few new robot platforms:

Marilyn - The first robot I helped design at Iguana during my internship.  I did about half of the mechanical design on the first iteration of Marilyn.  

TomCat - The second robot I helped design during my internship.  I had a much larger role in designing this robot than Marilyn.  After I came back to Iguana to work full time, I extended this robot with another motor in the torso.

Snappy - Although I did not design this robot, I designed and built the sensor and power system.  This included a rack mount box with the motor controllers and power supplies.  It also included an intermediate sensor consolidation circuit board that fits discretely inside the torso of Snappy.

I was the team leader of my senior design project in which we built an eight legged hobby servo driven robot.  The 3 other mechanical engineers on my team were Nick Romeo, John Tacklyn, and Gary Poon.  Here is a brief report about our work and the robot.  And here is a full size picture.

Cyclops - A one eyed photovore. I built it with Lego motors because they are powerful and easy to work with.

I made these robots in high-school and early college.

 Legs - A hexapod walker.  July 1999 Lego Mindstorms Novice Hall of Fame winner.

 Smart-Turn Bot - Basically just a bumper bot, but with rack-and-pinion steering and the ability to sense when the wheels are straight.  December 2000 Lego Mindstorms Novice Hall of Fame winner.

 Robo Snake - A five segmented snake with home built red LED eyes.

 Robotnik - Another bumper bot, but with home built infrared proximity detectors and four wheel steering.

These are some of my home made Lego sensors.

Accelerometer - A simple pendulum, one axis accelerometer.

Keyboard - 12 buttons in 1 sensor port.

IRPD - An infrared proximity detector.