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Robotic Hamster in a Ball

Our higher education system is a rigid path that leaves little room for adapting or adjusting your curriculum as you learn and grow in your field of interest. With the exception of a few electives, or the more drastic choice of changing majors, you are more or less set in the courses and topics you will be studying. For many, ...

Gauntlet Initiative

Continued from Ethan & the Robohand I returned home to St. Louis with a new direction. The existing designs did not prove to be enough to fit Ethan's unique case; something more versatile would be needed. I saw this as an opportunity to create a design that could go farther than the existing ones available open source, ...

Surgical Device – Patent Pending

  UPDATE //. 160510 I changed the title of this post from "Surgical Device - Provisional Patent" to "Surgical Device - Patent Pending." The International Application Number is PCT/US14/57768, filled on 140926. The abstract of the application is as follows: "The present invention discloses a new and improved ...

MATLAB

The University of Missouri's fundamental simulation software is MATLAB, short for Matrix Laboratory. We are introduced to the program through two classes sophomore year, and then continue to use it through the rest of our upperclassmen courses. 140805 EDIT: In hindsight, I have found it very comparable to python, whereas I ...

4-Bar Mech Running Machine

  A 4-bar mechanism submitted for a mechanical design class. Would be used to cyclically test running