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The Fox-Kart

Meet the Fox-Kart, a completely street legal Go-Kart created from a foxbody mustang. I began this project at the beginning of my senior year of high school with the goal of driving it to school before I graduated. A goal I achieved through perseverence and planning. This project highlights my creativity in design, as well as my various mechanical and problem solving skills. This car features a completely custom fuel system, stereo, and wiring harness designed by me. Currently, I am working on converting to electronic fuel injection and computer spark control, which will allow me to learn and experiment with electronic engine tuning.

If you would like to learn more about the FOX-Kart, a magazine article by BANGSHIFT is linked below.

The Fox-Kart

Custom Bluetooth Speakers

This is one of my first engineering projects that I am proud of. Throughout high school I created, built, and sold custom Bluetooth speakers of various forms and functions. Seen above is one I designed for my high school capstone project; it features multiple audio inputs, solar charging capability, and up to 6-Amps of 12-Volt power output for various accessories, such as lights, air mattress pumps or cigarette style chargers/devices. This was one of the first projects I created a full CAD design, wiring diagram, engineering drawings for production, a Bill of materials, market analysis, and testing plans for.

Below are some of the other speaker designs I have developed.

Vision Guided Ping-Pong Launcher

My Freshman year of college, our design project was to develop a vison guided ping-pong ball launcher. To accomplish this we had to create a target with fiducials, X&Y position control gantry and remote trigger mechanism. Accompanying this mechanical system was an Arduino with code to identify the target, recognize distance, simulate the physics, and determine launch trajectory; then output operations to the mechanical system and launch the ball. Our team had a system that scored full points and hit the target every time.

Capstone Design

For my senior year Capstone design course, my team was tasked with a project to solve a problem for Toyota. Our challenge was to update the bumper runner removal process. This is a project that had been attempted multiple times before, and as a team we knew we needed to take a different approach. Previous teams had attempted to create an end of arm tool that fit a 6 axis robot to remove the 6-8 runners from various bumpers. This approach lacked speed and was unable to be implemented with our cycle time constraint. Our team tested multiple hand tool rough prototypes, and decided to move forward with the one seen above. This tool mimics the motion the Team Member currently uses to remove the runner. For this project I functioned as our team leader was able work with the team to ensure all deliverables were turned in on time, as well as assign work and individual deadlines for various aspects of the project.

Solar Power Station

This is a project I completed in the spring of 2022. I needed to find a way to power a boat lift without using shore power. In Kentucky docks are not allowed to have shore power outside of marinas. This means for a boat lift to operate a remote power source must be installed. In some cases, dock owners will place a generator on land and run a long extension cord to power their boat lifts, or they have the option to purchase and install an expensive solar setup. I chose to develop my own that provides AC power for a fraction of the price of the ones that are commercially available. To complete this project I knew it had to be safe, and it had to follow all of the rules from the Army Core of Engineering. After thorough research into said rules, I was able to set build parameters and develop this design. The system is comprised of two 12-Volt batteries, a marine grade high power inverter, solar panel, charge controller, and power receptacle. The two batteries are wired in parallel and the inverter and charge controler in series. This all yielded a compact, environmentally friendly, and effective design.