Ryan Afzal

Designed, built, and tested a robotic multiple rocket launcher that could rotate and elevate a large (100lb) model rocket automatically for launch. For safety reasons, it required ample weight capacity and precise design. I wrote microcontroller firmware and developed a simulator for the control loops to verify behavior, as well as doing the full mechanical design, fabrication, and testing.

Independently constructed a medium quadcopter drone with auto-leveling capabilities. The drone used an Arduino board as its flight computer, used a gyroscopic sensor to stabilize itself, and I used a handheld RC controller to pilot it. Later modified the drone to launch a model rocket midflight.

Created an arcade-style space game, Nebula Nuker, available on Steam for $0.99.