Our concept is called SERO and aims to offer a logistical solution for a small business that is low-cost, modular, and friendly. Our design philosophy was to cater to the end-user which included designing a friendly method of retrieving items. We took inspiration from the milk section of the grocery store to accomplish this innovation! The robots are low profile holonomic (X-Drive) robots with a lead screw that we sped-CAD.

For the hackathon, our team build HelloCamera. In under 2 days, we built a Raspberry Pi application that would detect and track faces through OpenCV on our 3d-printed webcam gimbal. It would detect visitors, move the camera toward them with an led indicator, and change color and beep based on the proximity.

For this challenge, we had only 36 hours to design and pitch a proof of concept robot for telepresence and remote home care assistance. We designed Jira, a friendly co-bot striving to help seniors reach new heights. Our conceptual robot consists of a tracked tank drive to adapt to various homecare environments, and a telescopic module to adapt to various heights and needs of the intended user group.

Our team was tasked with designing a conceptual delivery robot that could handle and deliver 2-3 meals. Our team came up with Modulo, a food delivery robot that had modularity in mind. (Hence the name). Modulo can be loaded with various different types of food containers and be custom-tailored towards customer and client needs.

Senior Design saw 8 qualifying teams from the top engineering schools in Canada participate in designing, prototyping, and pitching their concept tidal turbine. We were inspired by the various concepts that the teams came up with and learned a lot about the various advantages and challenges of the implementation of tidal energy.

Our team addressed the issue of how to help students with working at home based on our own experiences from last year. Our solution, MaykerSpace, was based on our own experiences as enthusiasts struggling to get access to parts for our projects.

Buying low quantity electrical components can be quite expensive and the shipping associated with it can be quite unsustainable. In only 24 hours, we created a conceptual design and prototype for a local "hub" where individuals could request and offer to lend out their electronic components in the community.

This was our project for the Western Engineering Competitiion - In only 9 hours, we were tasked with designing a robot that could autonomously deliver COVID tests and record patient temperatures to be sent back to an operator in a hospital. As per the deliverables, we were required to create a CAD model, electrical schematic, code, and presentation explaining our design process for this robot. I was very involved in the mechatronics aspect of this build and was able to showcase my synergy of mechanical, electrical, and software skills. I particularly enjoyed testing and debugging.

In only 36 hours, our hackathon team built "Streamline", a hands-free presenting application that was a Chrome extension that allowed users to input pre-defined words and have the slideshow automatically change slides via voice based on the prompt words. Our application included analytics for the presenter such as displaying words per minute. This application was built with Javascript, HTML, and CSS code. My personal involvement was mostly using Javascript DOM to inject HTML objects into webpages as per our Chrome Extensions function.

I participated in the Senior Design category of the Schulich Engineering Competition in 2020. We were tasked with designing a robot, BOM, accurate costing, calculations, and a presentation in under 24 hours. We were given specific requirements to design a robot to transport different size packages and were expected to create a CAD model, electrical schematic, and necessary Arduino code. I personally contributed gearbox and sensor CAD design, as well as the electrical schematic and overall system integration for the project. We ended up winning first place and advanced to the Western Engineering Competition (WEC) in 2021.

I had the opportunity to participate in Hack The 6ix this year and my team decided to develop an integrated all-in-one hardware and software, smart COVID assistant concept in less than 24 hours. Our solution consisted of hardware that would detect proper mask usage and log time entries of individuals, an app for administration to easily alert potential contacts based on check in times, and a custom API to automatically determine which individuals may have had contact and to email all instances of contact. I personally worked on the custom API using AutoCode in JS, backend database integration, and the mask detection computer vision code using the Microsoft Azure Image Recognition Machine Learning Toolkit.

With extensive research, creativity and organization, we developed an innovative yet feasible engineering solution aimed to transform the conservative Aerospace and Defense industry to one which can aggressively embrace change as surrounding industries are radically changing.