Jukebox Joy Ride was the 2025 Ride Engineering Competition 3rd place winner. This is a high-energy, music themed flat ride developed by Cal Poly’s Amusement Park Engineers and Designers (CAPED) REC Team. Designed for re-rideability and immersion, it features a randomized playlist of 50 songs synced as you get stuck in the jukebox. The ride blends creative theming with amusment park safety standards.
DJ R-3X is a fully functional, one-to-one recreation of our favorite droid DJ at Oga’s Cantina in Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge. This droid is coming out of the CAPED Droid Factory, being designed and built by the INNOVENTIONS Team. This animatronic will soon be playing the greatest hits in a galaxy near you.
Dreamscape is a themed entertainment design challenge where student teams created original lands for a park built around the central theme of UNREAL, a world where the boundaries of reality are pushed, bent, and broken. This year's CAPED team developed a time warped land, plunging guests into a reality where timelines collided.
Romi is a term project that is designed to navigate an obstacle course using limit switches, IR sensors, encoders and a IMU to make it through. The code uses a scheduler to complete and prioritize various task. These task use PID controllers to perform various navigation task.
For the 2024-2025 School year my Senior Project Group was tasked with upgrading the Mars Mini Rover. This iteration implements a Star Link Mini antenna, with the hopes that when the rover lands on Mars it will be able to communicate with low orbit satellites.
This 3 week project used Programable Logic Controllers, Vision Systems and ladder logic code to sort 6-sided and 8-sided dice while traveling across a conveyor belt system. The system would use a Human-Machine interface to show and verify the face of the dice detected by the vision system.
Sigma Phi Delta is the Premier Engineering Fraternity. They needed a new project to spark motivation and develope the engineering skills of its members. This "Battle Bots" like competition is focuses on developing chassis and weapons using common 3D Printing materials. This includeds ABS, PETG, PLA, ect.
A 5 week project focused on the development of a gear box designed to rotate a 10 lb. weight 180 degrees. The gear box is used to transfer the power into a hopper of a power bed fusion metal 3D printer. The project was sponsored by Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.