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Projects In Progress

List of projects that are in progress

Please Note: Documentation is Incomplete


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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Take what you need, and pass knowledge along

Dane.Kouttron
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Electrical & Electrical Power