Engineering
James A. Forrest Career & Technology Center (JFCTC)
Certifications
Class Projects
The Center of Gravity Redirection Unit was my first Engineering project, this was a group project with Vincent Churilla and Gavin B. The idea was to control the direction a rocket faces to balance the dropping of cargo. I was the programming lead and I designed the first prototype.
Our whole Engineering class was divided into many smaller groups to build an electric car, my friend Matthew and I were put onto the Battery Balancing. In the box there was 32 cells, 4 groups of 8. All the batteries in each pack had to be charged to 3.605V and 0.2V within of each other so we could begin battery balancing.
The concept was a CNC machine that controls a pen to mimic handwriting, but then would be able to have the homework question(s) inputted and output answers using OpenAI's GPT model. The digital prototype I presented to the class was built with the Godot Game Engine. One day I plan on revisiting this project and physically building it with more advanced features.
Co2 Car designed in SolidWorks. My car was specifically designed to be as "generic" as can be. This creative choice did come at the cost of winning, but sometimes winning isn't what's important.
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Personal Projects
My dad loves guitars and so for Christmas I wanted to build my own guitar. I designed it by myself in SolidWorks and I bought a Guitar building kit and I used measurements from the base wooden body. I later learned that the kit was low-quality and their measurements were inaccurate to the electronics. However, I still put together the DayCaster body and showed him my work.
One day, I plan on revisiting with project with even more experience with CAD software and funding. I want to create a modular guitar, where all the electrical components are in one piece that can be installed into different bodies.
Mr. Skinner Contact Information: atskinner@smcps.org