# Stray Projects

one-offs, b-sides, etc

# The Practical Microcontroller Primer

As part of my time as grad student at the CBA, I help teach a class that we call How to Make (almost) Anything - and I field a lot of questions about microcontrollers from first-time embedded programmers. To try to demystify some of that content, I wrote this guide for our students.

# Eagle CAD in 10(ish) Commands

Also for HTMAA in 2021, I wrote this guide based on the thought that you can basically learn how to use Eagle ECAD (a circuit design tool) in just 10 commands.

# How to Make Something that Makes (almost) Anything

I also helped teach the recursive How to Make Something that Makes (almost) Anything HTMSTMAA in 2021, and I lectured for the “Mechanical Design” and “Power Electronics” sections (the latter with Dave Preiss).

Mechanical Design Guide

Power Electronics Guide

# Mapping Actuator Parameter Space

Prior to my time at the CBA, I had been really interested in actuator design: specifically the low-weight-high-torque-small-package space coveted by robot arm designers. I built this ashby chart-type thing to plot actuator parameter spaces. The data is available in this gitlab repo.