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- As an Iron Man fan, I had to make one of these

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A year after I completed my first smart necklace, I decided to make an improved version. This device would include features such as a Compass, a Level, the ability to send commands to my phone, and even a Game!

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- The project that marked my retirement from State College Halloween's parties

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It was almost time to leave State College and start a new chapter in my life, now as an Electrical Engineer. There were still a couple of weeks left though in which I could still do a final project. This is when a great ...

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One day, I saw one of my roommates, who at the time was majoring in Industrial Engineering (Enrique Tello) manually grinding coffee beans. As you might imagine, he loves coffee. However, for him, having to do this every ...

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- You probably started following me after you saw these beauties.

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Have you ever thought: Why don't guns have a biometric security system to protects the user from being harmed with their own weapon? No? Well, this is something that I asked myself. And out of curiosity, I decided to bui...

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Originally, I started this project at the end of Summer 2021. However, I was also working on other ones (BT SPK, RGB Kitchen Light) as well as in my Electrical Engineering capstone project, so I put it in pause for a whi...

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- Once again, it was spooky season in State College, so it was time to think of another awesome Halloween costume.

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- Who said you can't throw a party while you cook?

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- I know, my project names are so original.

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- As you might imagine, I'm kind of a Marvel fan.

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- An amazing improvement to the first version of the Companion.

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Almost the end of Spring Semester 2021, a friend asked me to automate her room lock just like I had done it with mine. I thought this was a great opportunity to use the knowledge I had just acquired in fingerprint sensor...

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For one of the classes I was taking at the time, it was required to do a project and write a report on it. The project could be anything you wanted, as long as it was related to Electrical Engineering. So, I decided to b...

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- For some reason, I didn't publish this project until 5 months after I completed it.

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- The reason why I did this project is kind of a funny one.

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- If you believe you know what your limits are, let me tell you, you don't.

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- Not gonna lie. This project was kind of a random one.

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- I didn't have Bluetooth Speakers, so I decided to build my own.

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- My first big leap.

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After completing the Security System Prototype, my interest in microcontroller-driven circuits sparked. For me, the number of projects that anyone could build using them was truly incredible, especially since there were ...

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- The beginning of something awesome.

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