MIT Mechanical Engineering
A bit of fun with sound and structures One of the assignments in my design studio class this semester was to develop a single-person-scale enclosure of some sort. I’ve been kinda interested in sound ever since I started that portable synth projects, so I decided to pursue something in that area. Background and Concept The …
17 November 2020 Update The boards are here, and they look awesome! Let’s start soldering. Power Supply First I always start with the power supply section first (as should you) so I can make sure all the voltages being delivered around the board are correct. This is to avoid potentially damaging the microcontrollers and other …
Let’s get this party started This page focuses on the physical hardware and software development of my first working prototype of this Teensy-based synthesizer. If you want to know more about the specifics of the device I’m developing here and the design process up until now, check out Part 1 of this project! 8 August …
Coilgun! Pew Pew! Remember these? If you don’t, you should go check out my Bigger Arcs with the DRSSTC page. To be honest, that page is not actually relevant to this post at all aside from those capacitors, but I still think it’ll be a cool read. Anyway, I didn’t end up using these caps …
Chasing megavolts (and showing off my new oscilloscope) If you’re just here to see the sweet singing arcs I probably promised in a link somewhere, scroll all the way to the bottom of this page! Otherwise, if you’d like to follow me as I stumble through this power electronics journey, please keep reading! New Scope! …
70% Handle! While cleaning out some of my old stuff from the shed, I found this hunk of steel. Specifically, it was a 1/8″ thick precision ground hunk of O1 tool steel. This used to be a nice 2″x 10″ bar, but as you can see (or not since there’s no size reference in the …
A robot dog! uwu Praj’s editorial note: This is an older project and the information on this page may be a little sparse. I like to leave these early pages up because there’s always a chance someone may find something useful in here and because I think every project, even a small or unfinished one, …
Praj’s editorial note: This is an older project and the information on this page may be a little sparse. I like to leave these early pages up because there’s always a chance someone may find something useful in here and because I think every project, even a small or unfinished one, is an important …
A much needed upgrade to my first EV project.
Digby II: Electric Boogaloo Praj’s editorial note: This is an older project and the information on this page may be a little sparse. I like to leave these early pages up because there’s always a chance someone may find something useful in here and because I think every project, even a small or unfinished one, …