Projects In Progress
List of projects that are in progress
Please Note: Documentation is Incomplete
Modern displays are amazing, lets try and put one in a machine that was never intended to have one |
Synchronous data recording and video overlays ahead |
Updating a decade old CNC wood router |
This little robot hitchhiked across the country, lets wake it up and teach it to paint and use it as an excuse to deep dive into machine learning |
Can we design a drop in replacement battery module? |
A 12V alternator that doubles as a hybrid motor, can it be repurposed for gokart duty? |
Camping on a mountaintop cabin, with a laptop and gadgets. |
Lets do some digging and try to wake up an Audi Hybrid Motor |
Waking up a Gen-1 DC Fast (CCS) charger for communications development |
Making a tricoder that lets you visualize the radio spectra |
Some failed batteries and corrosion fought off with nickel plating and reflowing |
Extracting a Jet Pump, electrifying it and mounting in a small boat |
How hard could it be to make a metal exoskelton for some cut flowers? |
External Solar inputs, energy usage display and auxillary outputs. |
Portable solar panels and dubious electric bicycles
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A simple wifi-connected temperature humdity probe that survives the elements |
A tutorial and list of experiences of meshroom, blender and threejs |
Using a historical MIT sign to automatically indicate a zoom call in process. |
Adding a rotary axis on my laser engraver |
Connecting the advancing field of synthetic art to a painting robot |
Super quick repair to some touchscreen compatible gloves, returns touchscreen functionality within a few hours! |
A quick gadget to help with filming welding activities |
Do you want to know the weather right by your favorite skinny dipping / ice racing spot? Build a science birdhouse! |
Have you ever wanted to do a video path integration? Checkout the post and watch the sum of the paths grow as time progresses |
I fell in love with this dorky wonderful drone, but it has some room for improvement, join in on some of the add-ons, opinions and upgrades |
Designing, fabricating and adding a 4+5 axis assembly to a 3 axis CNC |
Did you inherit a bunch of dubious makerbot repliator 2's and are frustrated with how fiddly they are? Come on in lets bring the lil machine back to life |
I stumbled on some exotic 48v Porsche prototype Battery modules, lets try and make them talk and sort out their architecture along the way |
Attempting to get an electric row-boat to hydrofoil |
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802.11ah is long-range WiFi, intended for namely internet of things. It supports some fairly high bandwidth links, so what about rovers? |
I inherited a pile of parts from a china-clone diesel heater, this project turns the pile of parts back into a working device and attempts to use some of the waste heat to power on-board electronics, such that they don't drain the blower battery |
There's this beautiful motor, 14kw of delicious 48v induction, all it needs is three can buses and some in-can-tations |
A really interesting battery chemistry, capable of high speed charging. Converting existing modules into something more e-bike shaped |
Taking slow spinning photos of hardware is great for documentation, I had some spare quarantine-time and this was born to slowly turn a model and take time lapse looping animations. |
I was looking for a way to organize my cables and this is a method i came up with to keep mostly my USB cables sorted. |
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Part road bike, part front wheel drive linear accelerator, the story of the errand-bicycle that's survived a half decade of potholes |
Part road bike, part front wheel drive linear accelerator, the story of the errand-bicycle that's survived a half decade of potholes |
Part rover, part snowblower brains. This is a platform I used for verifying sensors and GPS way-point navigation, instead of carrying around a snowblower |
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[I'm currently in the process of documenting these projects, give it some time]
This site is intended to inform and provide information via documented projects.
Take what you need, and pass knowledge along
Dane.Kouttron
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Electrical & Electrical Power