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My History

Here's a list of my most important projects that I've done in the past, plus snapshot of what I'm up to right now at the bottom!

Dullahan

    History of Dullahan

    Background

    Born from an altruistic desire for mechanical speed paired with a lack of a driver’s license, money and fitness, I decided the only way to satiate my need was to construct an electric bicycle from scratch. The project would be known as Dullahan, after a headless horseman from Irish folklore. The analogy isn’t quite there, but I was a highschool boy and the name sounded great.   

    Trial and Error

    What followed was slow progress with a great many hiccups. My drill at home was severely underpowered for boring through steel, and my bits were too soft to break through without being destroyed. I initially tried gluing the larger sprocket to the wheel of the bike, which broke immediately. The steel bar I’d made for the motor was too flimsy for the forces at work and always bent whenever the motor was engaged. There were more failures than I can count, but that never slowed me down, spiritually at least.

    Assessing the sPHENIX Detector's EM Calorimeter

    Work In Detail

    We were working with the sPHENIX detector, a new particle detector up in Brookhaven New York. The purpose of the machine was to study Quark Gluon Plasma, a state of matter 250,000x hotter than the Sun, and theorized to be the primordial state of matter that the universe took on moments after the Big Bang. 


    There are many subsystems in the sPHENIX detector, but our work was with the Electromagnetic Calorimeter (EMCal), which detected light.  

      Current Pursuits

      Synton Radio

      I've got my Amateur Technician license recently, and am now getting active with the Synton radio club. We send voice messages, coded messages and images by accessing our local tower. We also receive satellite imagery via our own antenna. We build a lot of our own parts: AIO cables, antennas and some smaller projects like crystal radios or

      I've got my Amateur Technician license recently, and am now getting active with the Synton radio club. We send voice messages, coded messages and images by accessing our local tower. We also receive satellite imagery via our own antenna. We build a lot of our own parts: AIO cables, antennas and some smaller projects like crystal radios or fixing broken equipment. 


      Additionally, I'm coordinating a redesign of our logo, as the one we currently use is literally 100 years old and compressed beyond saving. 


       work on different electronics as well. 

      Illini Pullers

      Wanting to have a bit more hands-on experience, I decided I’d join the building team of the Illini Pullers group. Through this club I have gained experience using both Mills and Lathes. Now I am on constant standby for part fabrication and lessons as one of two machinists on the entire team.  

      Projects

      Projects

      Pictured is a Thermoelectric cooler, the main component of an idea I had recently during my Fluids lab the week of Feb 16th. I want to make a cooling vest using a water loop (in a similar fashion to that of a PC cooling solution) and a thermoelectric cooler to move heat from my body with extra efficiency. The original thought was to use a

      Pictured is a Thermoelectric cooler, the main component of an idea I had recently during my Fluids lab the week of Feb 16th. I want to make a cooling vest using a water loop (in a similar fashion to that of a PC cooling solution) and a thermoelectric cooler to move heat from my body with extra efficiency. The original thought was to use a refrigeration cycle, but I figure that would be too difficult to compress (haha) into a wearable article. 


      I could even use it for heating by flipping it to the other side. 


      I plan to recruit club members to help me create this machine. 

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