Personal Projects
Landing Stage of a Sounding Rocket
This is Whistler! A personal project, designed entirely by myself. Inspired by SpaceX, Whistler is the landing stage of a 2-stage rocket. It features 4 microservo-actuated landing legs, that spring into place as the Solid Rocket Booster (SRB) approaches it soft touchdown.
This is an ongoing project, which will involve creating my own propellant, carbon fiber composite fabrication, 3D-printing, and many more interesting procedures!
Mechanical Stage-Separation for a liquid fuel rocket
A method of non-destructive non -explosive stage-separation for a rocket
As a part of AerospaceNU, Boston MA, I designed, prototyped and built a novel mechanism for a method of non-explosive stage separation for Redshift, the teams biggest rocket to date.
Redshift is a liquid-propellant-powered rocket designed and fabricated from scratch by a team of student engineers.
Mechanical Stage-Separation for a liquid fuel rocket
The external marman clamp designed by me and the team for Redshift. It uses a nichrome wire line cutter to actuate stage separation for the rocket. After several rounds of testing, with multiple successful separations on smaller model rockets, the external marman clamp is ready for Redshift's maiden flight.
Formula 1 Steering Wheel
As a fan of Formula 1 Racing, I designed a replica of the Mercedes AMG Petronas Motorsport steering wheel used by the 7-time World champion Lewis Hamilton.
It is modeled to be 50% accurate, with intentional design changes to make it functional, 3D printable, and can be attached to my Sim-Racing wheelbase, with a quick release mechanism.
Meteor Madness
Two player interactive game - where one player controls the motion of a 'spaceship' in the x-direction and the second player controls the y-direction movement as they avoid obstacles to reach the finish in the shortest amount of time.