Engineering Projects

The Pipe Crawler

My senior university project, an articulated pipe inspection robot with a new kind of screw-drive propulsion and an inertial navigation system.

with: Sheraz Wasi and Mark Miller
when: May 2003

Hovercraft

An unmanned hovercraft with plywood hull, a skirt made from a painter's dropcloth, and a leaf-blower engine; plus build your own 10-minute pizza-box hovercraft!

with: Jay Wilson
when: May 1999

Dry-Ice Rockets

You too can make a rocket out of a water bottle and a chunk of dry ice.

with: Jay Wilson
when: August 2003