Electrical Engineering Student
Project Brief While my heart’s set on electrical, I enjoy tinkering with mechanical design. In my Engineering Graphics course, we learned to hand draw isometric and orthographic projections, and for the final we were tasked with turning some of these sketches into a parametric SolidWorks assembly. I chose to model a rack-and-pinion steering mechanism that …
It’s been a busy season, but winter break has opened my schedule up to tackle this project. Previously in Part 2, I designed a PCB that incorporated a LiPo battery charging and boost conversion circuit to power a 5V microcontroller and downstream components. We left off with an alarming sizzle as the boost converter IC …
School had picked up soon after publishing Part 1 of this project, in which I built the first working prototype. With the semester winding down, I figured now was a good time to continue. In this segment, we’ll create a custom PCB for our previous prototype, then model and print a new enclosure for it. …
There are future improvements planned for this project, but in case it helps someone out, here is my progress. It’s also good practice in retaining what I’ve learned, which has been quite a lot. First of all, this is what we’ll build in “Part 1”: Initial Idea Having spent some time learning the basics of …