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Mechatronics Design

ME102B provides students with an opportunity to integrate mechanical and electrical systems to create “smart” mechatronics devices. Over the course, students become familiar with event-driven programming, common machine elements like gears, and electromechanical actuators with drive electronics. The course culminates in an Inventor’s Open House where students demonstrate their projects. This page highlights these projects.

An archive of project videos from all years (that Prof. Stuart taught the class) can be found on the class channel of Youtube playlists. More information about each semester provided below, including project reports.

2022 Fall Semester

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This year’s Showcase was hosted in Jacob’s Hall Room 310 on Thursday 12/8 from 10-11:30a.

The first 2/3 of the semester covered a wide range of topics, from gears to embedded programming. The last 1/3 of the semester was almost all dedicated to fulltime work on an independent team capstone project.

Once again, student projects were partially funded by the ASME MakerGrant program.

During the live Showcase, a set of impartial judges selected award winners from among the class. The winners were:

Mechanical Design Award: Group 12 (Runners up 9)

Electromechanical Design (MEECS) Award: Group 11 (Runners up 21)

Design Innovation Award: Group 19 (Runners up 18)

Societal Impact Award: Group 6 (Runners up 1)

Commercial Value Entrepreneurship Award: Group 5 (Runners up 28)

A playlist of video descriptions created for each project can be viewed at this Youtube playlist. See below for the complete set of the project reports.

Group 1: WalkerAssist
Marco Abbiate, Joseph Benedetti, Calvin Stephens
Report
Group 2: Pet Interaction Extravaganza
Keilani Adachi, Sydney Chan, Laura Dabundo, Nate Pellini
Report
Group 3: El Pinatatron
Constance Angelopoulos, Troy Keslinke, Romy Mastel, Anthony Moody
Report
Group 4: Lock Breaker
Xavier Barneclo, Michael Jia, Pranav Kalra, Annika Yong
Report
Group 5: Planty Bot
Youssef Elias, Nhi Phan, Miguel Salazar-Rivera, Martin Beshara
Report
Group 6: Overhead Obstacle Detection Device for Visually Impaired Individuals
Dylan Lee, Shanon Lee, Yarah Feteih, Emily Blum
Report
Group 7: Cajonament
Tolou Pharokhipanah, Tzuyi Chang, Anya Shrivastava, Sam Phillips
Report
Group 8: monkeybot
Kevin Cheng, Massimiliano de Sa, Julie Hoang, Jessica Lee
Report
Group 9: Continuously variable differential transmission
Toh Ming Xian, Brian Chuan Jie Sim, Jovon Jun Wei Lim, Megan Choo Ming Hui
Report
Group 10: Horse racer game
Alex Castillo, Luis Flores, Jesse Medina, Eymon Wong
Report
Group 11: The Auto Spice Dispenser
Jacob Gottesman, Alvin So, Nikhil Gupta, Amy Jiang
Report
Group 12: Autotrike
Weston White, Magnus Gu, Kevin Oh, Sarah Kung
Report
Group 13: Mech-E robot
Adam Stewart, Ben Shoemaker, Jaeyun Ha, Seong Ho Yang
Report
Group 14: Pin Bot
Elaine Llacuna, Gissell Jimenez, Hannah Dam, and Tristan Villanueva
Report
Group 15: Affordable Glasses Prescription
Samuel Ang, Carlos Karve, Jingzhou Song, Manraj Gill
Report
Group 16: Automatic drink and mixing machine
Ethan Lee, Elianna Peng, Max Ries, Rishi Wadgaonkar
Report
Group 17: Autonomous Cat Toy
Alan Monge, Austin Kim, Danny Kwon, Marcos Marmolejo
Report
Group 18: The Porter transportation solution
Andrew Zhu, Hubert Liu
Report
Group 19: Ball Balancing Board
Casey Wilson, Ziven Posner, Tristan Schwab, John Gilbreth
Report
Group 20: Walking linkage
Aakash Ramachandran, Ingrid Shan
Report
Group 21: AutonoTech
Xiangyu Hong, Ziyi Wang
Report
Group 22: Personal Bot, Bot-ler
Abdullah Alhamood, Fahd Althukair, Zachary Douglas
Report
Group 23: Automatic Pet Care Device
Travis Carroll, Lauren Robson, Laurice Hawatmeh, Yixin Tang
Report
Group 24: Snail Bot
Kevin Lam, Gumer Ho, Guanhua Fu
Report
Group 26: Perfect Beer Pour Bot
Nana Porter-Honicky, Jun Yeob Lee, Alexandr Nechay, Hayden Ye
Report
Group 27: Laser Light Show
Blaise Hahs, Deven Matthews, Anuj Raichura
Report
Group 28: Autonomous trash
Claudia Renero, Ambrose Liu, Angelo Braganza
Report
Group 29: TreaToss
John Kenny, Donghun Lee and Luke Seybold
Report
Group 30: Automated Cling Wrap Dispenser
Sam Averitt, Tae Lee, Yuke Nakano, Todd Russell
Report

 

2021 Fall Semester

Award winning projects from Fall 2021:

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The showcase occurred on Wednesday, 12/8/2021 from 12-1:30pm at Jacobs Hall room 310. Attendees were able to witness the ingenuity and skill of our amazing mechanical engineering students! The event was live and in-person.

This semester, half of the class consisted of individual labs and assignments in order to learn specific mechatronics skills. Therefore, the project represents the second half of the semester’s work, to deepen and apply lessons in a more integrated product. This semester was also the debut of the ASME MakerGrant system, led by students in the ASME student group, which provided students with funding to help support their project realization.

During the live Showcase, a set of impartial judges selected award winners from among the class. The winners were:

Mechanical Design Award: Group 7, LightDisc

Electromechanical Design (MEECS) Award: Group 12, Billiard Robot

Design Innovation Award: Group 16, Domino Placer

Societal Impact Award: Group 17, Assistive Cabinet

Commercial Value Entrepreneurship Award: Group 10, Icarus Solar Seeker

See below for the complete set of reports and videos submitted by students this year.

Group 1: Autonomous Card Sorting Robot
David Guo, Jenny Mei, Kenneth Song, Taewon Kim
Report
Group 2: Roll-On-You-Bot
Mark Theis, Elizabeth Gammariello, Han Nguyen
Report
Group 3: Kid Candy Machine
Maria Padilla, Levi Evans, Maikel Masoud
Report
Group 4: DrinkBot
Dixun Cui, Andrew Chen, Mayank Gupta, Ocean Zhou
Report
Group 5A: Circoloco
Joel Parks and Sina Shakeraneh
Report
Group 5B: Pipe Inspector
Tonya Beatty, Ryan Norris, Komal Thind
Report
Group 6: Automated Rice Dispenser
Oniqa Urmi, Alejandro Diaz, SooMin Kang
Report
Group 7: LightDiscs
Kai Chorazewicz, Michael McNabb
Report
Group 8: Pyrovalve
Trevor Zinky, Dylan Potter
Report
Group 9: Height-adjust desk
Ben Liao, Alexis Wei, Allison Yuan, Atlas Yuen
Report
Group 10: Icarus
Thena Guttieri, Julia Pecego, Cassidy Powers
Report
Group 11: Morphing Airfoil
Richard Tee, James Yoo
Report
Group 12: Billiard Robot
Yuting(Elizabeth) Chen, Haoxiang Huang, WenHao Li
Report
Group 13: Bear Fold
Bernardo Fichman Lacerda & Thomas Ragsac
Report
Group 14: Fully Automated Coffee Machine
Junlong Li, Ivan Shao, Zelin Ye
Report
Group 15: Wealth Inequality Claw Machine
Jesse Thiara, Miguel Nepomuceno, Conor Blackburn
Report
Group 16: Domino Placer
Tess Callan, Jorell Gotamco, Tachpol (Pond) Posaphiwat
Report
Group 17: Assistive Cabinet
Monet Garrett, Mohamed Mohamed, Kevin Rubio
Report
Group 18: Spice-bot
Deborah Lin, Navid Nassiri
Report
Group 19: High-rise Glass Cleaner
Braeden Swidenbank, Kyle Pedersen
Report
Group 20: Bio-Inspired Monopedal Jumping Robot
Stanley Wang, Steven Salah-Eddine, Andrew Boutros
Report
Group 21: Dishwashing robot arm
Janek de Silva, Adit Roychowdhury
Report
Group 22: Automated Projector
Austin Nguyen, James Nguyen
Report
Group 23: UkƐ
John John Huddleston, Hadar Gamliel, Shaan Jagani
Report
Group 24: Bike Car
Ethan Cardenas, Alexander Park, Henry Smith
Report
Group 25:
Dorotea Macri, James Lee, Hae Young Jang
Report
Group 26: Boston Terrier
Karen Chen, Bryant La, Moises Medrano
Report
Group 27: Violin-bot
Uriel Barragan, Anjana Saravanan, Rohan Castelino
Report
Group 28: Actuated Camera Platform
Chengdu Xu and Aaron Luo
Report
Group 29: Bear Boost
Mark Kallos, Ricardo Alfaro, Jake Glick
Report
Group 30: Robotic Cat Toy
Collin Nilsen, Varun Rao, Matthew Walker
Report
Group 31: Pet Feeder Machine
Canberk Hurel, Aaron Wagner, Joshua Fong
Report
Group 32: Rubble Robot
Alex Chemali, Matthew Nelson, Alejandro Orozco
Report
Group 33: Light Show
Eric Kang, Mirabelle Huang, Sebastian Baehr
Report
Group 34: Self-Playing Guitar
Julia Estrada, Sharjeel Laeeq, Cooper Clark
Report
2020 Fall Semester

This semester, the class and showcase were conducted remotely / virtually due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The teaching team included Prof. Stuart, Prof. Kazeooni and GSI Joseph Skelley. The majority of this class consisted of lab assignments using a home lab kit. This MicroKit is a newly developed tool, featured on the front page of the first ever ME Dept. Newsletter.

Then, the mini-project was conducted over the last 3 weeks of class. The students chose to either produce a rough mechatronics product at home (PDF + video) or produce a more detailed mechanical design in CAD (PDF only). These projects are a part of the Jacobs Winter Design Showcase. The Jacob’s staff would like you to be able to connect with the students: “Help provide student feedback and nominate your favorite projects for our Student Projects page, using our feedback form – all are welcome to submit!” This form is a great way to celebrate the wonderful achievements of the students and let them know if you were impressed with their work. Students are also encouraged to apply for the Jacobs Institute Innovation Catalysts program to get a “Spark” or “Ignite” grant to continue working on their ideas!

See the complete set of reports and videos submitted by students here.

Welcome
by Prof. Hannah Stuart
Hamster Heating System
by Kevin Antonino
Report
Dog Bell
by Matthew Blanchard
Report
Automated Pour-over Coffee Machine
by Evan Borzilleri
Report
Rise and Shine
by Kevin Brown
Report
Cellphone Casket Countdown Timer
by Juan Carrillo Melendez
Report
Mini-Excavator
by Ho Tin Chau
Report
The “Stokowski” EZ-Conduct
by Eatone Cheng
Report
Gyroscope Controlled RC Car
by Yingying Chen
Report
Automatic Dice Roller
by Henry Cheung
Report
Hands Free Stirrer
by Jinman Cho
Report
Cooling Fan for Fried Food
by Ethan Chung
Report
Automatic Nail Filer
by Wonsik Chung
Report
ESP32 VU Meter
by Jonathan de Laine
Report
ToastBot
by Ashlyn D'Orazio
Report
Ultimate Cat Feeder
by Mahsood Ebrahim
Report
Automatic Window Opener and Closer
by Zaxhary ElShaer
Report
Bubbles the Clown Animatronic
by Katelyn Gerhardt
Report

Quarantine Buddy
by Srishti Goswamy
Report
Automatic Tea Maker 3000
by Arda Hatay
Report
The Welcomer
by Vanessa Hernandez-Cruz
Report
Drink Stirrer
by Frederick Houghton
Report
Single-Motor Robotic Hand
by Jay Huber
Report
Merry’Go Round Recycling System
by Alberto Ibarra
Report
Sonar Alarm Security System
by Michael Ingerman
Report
V-12T: Bluetooth Controlled Vehicle
by Kiaria Johnson
Report
Dynamic Elevate
by Tiana Johnson-Kidd
Report
Ajoy Temperature Control by Sam Johnson
Report
Package Pick-Up Mechanism
by Jeonghyun Jo
Report
Lifting Spirits
by Chung Min Kim
Report
Light Controller
by Eric Kim
Report
Pet Food Dispenser
by Caitlyn Lee
Report
Simple Self-Driving Vehicle
by Gunn Lee
Report
Tresspassing Alarm Security System
by Sang Joon Lee
Report
Butter Buttler

by Christian Leycam
Report
Automatic Clamping Phone Holder for Car
by Ericson Li
Report
Edge Bikes
by Joe Li
Report
Elevator for Air Quality Sensor
by Yilan Lu
Report
3D scanner
by Casper Max
Report
Lightweight Staircase Lift
by Wenny Miao
Report
Automatic Plant Watering Device
by Sara Mirza
Report
Prosthetic Joint
by Edmund Narh
Report
Scoop Evener
by Alex Orr
Report
Shower Temperature Controller
by Rees Parker
Report
Egg Smasher
by Shane Pauker
Report

Leggy, the Legged Robot
by Natalia Perez
Report
Package Detector
by An Phan
Report
Softball Swing Trainer Prototype
by Ashley Reilly and Jeremy Rine
Report
Tea Steeper Prototype
by Elsa Robertson
Report
Temperature Operated Summer Fan
by Rishabh Roy
Report
Study Helper
by Jung Won Shin
Report
Car Autopilot System
by Ye Song
Report
Humidifier Assistant Fan
by Ognyan Stefanov
Report
Bluetooth Blinds
by Dimitri Stetsenko
Report
Line Follower Robot
by Jeremiah Teofil
Report

Haptic Mouse Bungee
by Eric Wang
Report
Micro control curtain with weather station
by He Wang
Report

Curtain Assistant
by Shaobo Wang
Report
Mini Conveyor Belt
by Linnea Warburton
Report
Robotic Arm Prototype with Hand Sanitizer
by Nicolas Williams
Report
Literally Just A Sign
by Leon Wu
Report
Motorized Window Blind
by Charlie Xu
Report
Mechanical Gripper Arm with Touch Sensor
by Alexander Yang
Report
Makeshift Rock Tumbler
by Asena Yildiz
Report
Swipe to Squeeze: No-contact Hand Sanitizer Dispenser
by Howard Yoon
Report
Automatic Paper Rotor
by Licheng Yu
Report
Roof Vent
by Steven Zadourian
Report
Boxer's Pinata
by Victor Zendejas Lopez
Report
2019 Fall Semester

The teaching team this semester included GSI’s Wilson Torres and Sareum Kim.

Pictures from ME102B showcase, Fall 2019.

This semester we piloted the brand new California Mechanics for the Greater Good Design Excellence Competition.

Cal Athletics video highlighting the work of one student in class this semester, Matthew Messman, and his team:

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