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<div class="wraping-text">I made an N-scale train table built into a coffee table theamed after a logging scene inspired by
mountains in Oklahoma I had a Boy Scout Camp at. I modeled a barraks for the camp in Autodesk Inventor and printed them. Fortunately,
mountains in Oklahoma where I went to Boy Scout Camp. I modeled a barraks for the logging camp on the train table in Autodesk Inventor and printed them. Fortunately,
my older brother is talented at painting and painted it for me.
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<div class="wraping-text">My younger brother and his friends enjoy disc golfing so for their graduation presents, I designed
and printed a dorm room disc golf catchers. They are about a foot tall for them to take with them to college.
and printed a dorm room disc golf catchers. They are about a foot tall. The disc catchers are printed out of PLA and the discs
are made of TPU. Each of them got a disc with the high school logo and one with their respective college logo.
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<div class="wraping-text"> During my senior design project our advisor told us to develop a team logo to put on our PCBs. As a
joke one of our team members made a drawing of his face as the logo. At the end of the year I spent an afternoon modeling,
coding, wiring, and assemblying this underglow sign. I put in a shock sensor to change the lighting mode. It can change
joke, one of our team members made a drawing of his face as the logo. At the end of the year, I spent an afternoon modeling,
coding, wiring, and assemblying this underglow sign as a gift for our advisor. I put in a shock sensor to change the lighting mode. It can change
between a disco mode, smooth color, a bunch of static colors and a Iowa State mode where the indivual addressable RGB strips
are set to different ISU colors. I cut the drawing out of plexiglass with a laser cutter while working on pieces for our project.
The code runs on a Arduino nano and the case was modeled in Autodesk Inventor. The video above steps through the different color options.
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<div class="wraping-text">I have worked on a small HO scale train table with my older brother a bunch over the years. We
have added a number of features such as a green LED flashing in a cabin in a woods to have a witches hut with spells being cast.
I decided to add a microcrontroller to handle all the LED flashing. The features it controls are: blinking water tower light,
flashing witches spell hut, burning building, and ghost signalman. All aspect occur randomly. Finally I added a small .96 in
LCD display that project images of ghosts onto a peice of plexiglass at an angle making a ghost like appearance at the end of
a mine shaft. When growing up my siblings and I watched a lot of Scooby Doo so I set it to display different ghosts from Scooby Doo.
flashing witches spell hut, burning building, and ghost signalman. All aspect occur randomly. Finally, I added a small .96 in
LCD display that projects images of ghosts onto a peice of plexiglass at an angle making a ghost like appearance at the end of
a mine shaft. When growing up, my siblings and I watched a lot of Scooby Doo, so I set it to display different ghosts from Scooby Doo.
The images are selected at random from an sd card. To handle all the connections I designed a custom PCB on KiCAD to handle all the wire
connections. Additionally, this PCB handle power regulation. The power supply on the train tables says it outputs 12V DV which
is a input option on an Arduino. Unfortuately, it was actually putting out 18 volts which we found out by frying an Arduino Nano.
Thus I put a linear reguatlor to handle the power regulation.
connections. Additionally, this PCB handles power regulation. The power supply on the train tables says it outputs 12V DC which
is a input option on an Arduino. Unfortuately, it was actually putting out 18 volts which we found out by frying an Arduino Nano on my first perf board design, so I put a linear reguatlor to handle the power regulation.
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<div class="body-text"> Batteryless sensor nodes are an emerging technology that enables low-cost, low-maintenance,
and long-lifetime embedded sensing. Rather than being wired into a continuous power supply or provisioned with a battery,
these sensor nodes survive solely on harvesting energy from ambient sources available in their environment, such as RF
signals, solar, vibrational, or thermal. As such they are a challenge to design since these sources are often
signals, solar, vibrational, or thermal. As such, they are a challenge to design since these sources are often
highly variable and very low power. Our team was tasked with creating a testbed for researchers to use for
the battery-less nodes they are developing.

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<div class="subheader-text">Project Details</div>
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<div class="body-text">My team had the task of developing a testbed system for testing multiple of the batteryless sensor nodes
communicating with each other. The goal of our project was to develop both hardware and software to test these nodes. Additionally
we had the task of making a cleaner sensor or "BOB" node setup of multiple boards that make it up in a clean stack. Our system was
then connected to this BOB node and monitor aspects of it; wired data such as up time due to the Bob nodes not being on all the time. It
also monitored the wireless communication between the BOB nodes. All this data was be sent from the monitor to a central computer
<div class="body-text">My team had the task of developing a testbed system for testing multiple batteryless sensor nodes
communicating with each other. The goal of our project was to develop both hardware and software to test these nodes. Additionally,
we had the task of making a cleaner batterless sensor node hardware or "BOB" node setup of multiple boards that make it a clean stack. Our system was
then connected to this BOB node and monitored aspects of it; wired data such as up time due to the Bob nodes not being on all the time. It
also monitored the wireless communication between the BOB nodes. All this data was sent from the monitor to a central computer
or host to organize the data and made it accessible for researchers. By the end of the year we had a system for ten of these BOB
and monitoring board pairs. We sucessfully did a 3 node setup in a network configuration demostrating scalability.
The design was scalable beyond this though with the ability to be applied to a design with hundreds of
The design was scalable beyond this though, with the ability to be applied to a design with hundreds of
nodes.
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<div class="body-text">Within this project I had two tasks. I was elected group leaders so I organized the work effort,
<div class="body-text">Within this project I had two tasks. I was elected group leader, so I organized the work effort,
organized our timeline, managed communication with our client, managed our documentation, and handled submissions for class. Outside
of leadership task I was also a member of our software team writing the embedded code that ran on the microcontrollers
to monitor the test and communicate back.
of the leadership tasks, I was a member of our software team writing the embedded code that ran on the microcontrollers
to monitor the test and communicates.
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<div class="body-text">Throughout the project I grew in my embedded systems skills as I read through
preexisting code, read documentation, design system archtecture and wrote code. With that work I have developed skills with proposing
<div class="body-text">Throughout the project, I grew in my embedded systems skills as I read through
preexisting code, read documentation, design system archtecture, and wrote code. With that work I developed skills with proposing
ideas and describing concerns I see. Additionally, I developed skills within leadership
specifically leading a small technical group keeping meetings on topic and creating agendas. I also gained skills with figuring
specifically leading a small technical group, keeping meetings on topic, and creating agendas. I also gained skills with figuring
out a clients requirements and preferences when developing a solution for them.
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<div class="body-text"> Our Design is described in our design document below. Our project had complications of multiple PCB
designs with RF components and a network for many codes aggregating data on multiple RF bands. With a microcontroller on each
band for each node comunicating over SPI we ran into many challenges as we developed the project.
designs with RF components and a network for many codes aggregating data on multiple RF bands. We had a microcontroller on each
band for each node comunicating over SPI. We ran into many challenges as we developed the project.
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<a href="../../assets/pdfs/CPRE_EE_492_Design_Report.pdf">Design Document</a>
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<img src="../assets/images/SeniorDesignCurrentSetup.png" class="gallery-image">
<span class="image-caption">This is a schematic of the current test setup. Our solution will be similair with the
difference of having one "Sniffer Node" CC1352 per each BOB node. Additionally our setup should have ten node pairs.
<span class="image-caption">This is a schematic of the test setup prior to our work. Our's expanding on this by
having one "Sniffer Node" CC1352 per each BOB node. Additionally, our setup had ten node pairs and could scale further.
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<img src="../assets/images/CurrentTestSetup.png" class="gallery-image">
<span class="image-caption">The current test setup for the test is wire heavy so our setup should put all boards in a
simple stack. Additionally, the Sniffer nodes should be battery powered and communicate test information back to the
host wirelessly making the wires unnecessary.
<span class="image-caption">The previous test setup was wire heavy, so our setup put all boards in a
simple stack. Additionally, our Sniffer nodes were battery powered and communicated test information back to the
host wirelessly making the wires unnecessary and each node isolated.
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<a href="../../assets/pdfs/CPRE_EE_492_Design_Report.pdf">Design Document</a>
<a href="../../assets/pdfs/CPRE_EE_492_Final_Poster.pdf">Final Poster</a>
<a href="../../assets/pdfs/CPRE_EE_492_Final_Pres.pdf">Final Presentation</a>

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together. This gave me a great deal of experience debugging the issues and learning different problem isolation
and solving methods.
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<p>I was a part of the race crew that attended the competition and qualified for the car during the summer. We had
to fix issues with qualifications and other things that came up while preparing for the actual event or
something that broke during the event. This was a very time-constrained high-stress event for the entire team,
which is similar to what can occur in the industry and was a significant learning experience problem solving
<p>I was a part of the race crew that attended the competition and qualified for the summer races. We had
to fix issues with qualifications, other things that came up while preparing for the event, and
things that broke during the event. This was a very time-constrained high-stress event for the entire team,
which is similar to what can occur in industry and was a significant learning experience problem solving
under pressure.
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<p>The following year Fall 2021 and Spring of 2022, I started my role as assistant Electrical Director running
meetings, assisting the overall organization of the Electrical team, and helping out when necessary on work and
testing days. That Summer, we went on race again with greater success and became the first Multiple occupant
vehicles of Iowa State to Qualify for the American Solar Challenge.
<p>Fall 2021 and Spring of 2022, I held the role of Assistant Electrical Director. I ran
meetings, assisted the overall organization of the Electrical team, and helped out when necessary on work and
testing days. That Summer, we went on race again with greater success and became the first multiple occupant
vehicle of Iowa State to qualify for the American Solar Challenge.
</p>
<p>From starting Fall of 2022 to Summer 2023, I was been Electrical Director leading the electrical sub-team by
selecting our project focus and management team for the year. I led workdays and onboarding new members to
ensure future teams.
<p>Fall of 2022 to Summer 2023, I was the Electrical Director leading the electrical sub-team by
selecting our project focus and management team for the year. I led workdays and the onboarding new members to
ensure the future of our team and passing on the skills I learned.
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