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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.
Even has a shoulder strap!



Portable solar panels and dubious electric bicycles
Sounds like a plan!


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



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.






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





















[I'm currently in the process of documenting these projects, give it some time]

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Dane.Kouttron
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Electrical & Electrical Power