William Rice

Pronounced Micro Scrapes is a device which can display a cellular automata scene/world. The purpose of this product is to be a rain maker/white noise device where all the sounds and environmental noise are generated within this artificial world. The rain can be seen and the creatures heard. You can read more about it on my git repo, its hosted on my private gitea however a backup is on my github.

The Minty Midi is an ongoing project to create a highly adjustable MIDI controller that fits inside an Altoids Tin, harkening back to the old days of Raspberry Pi! Minty Midi requires no additional software to customize it; all you need is a DAW or other MIDI software, though I also hope to be able to make the Minty Midi even work without a computer for on-the-go music creation!

Argh! I haven’t written anything yet, hopefully I will soon though!

For the final project in ME3460 I was tasked to program and simulate a robotic arm capable of performing a full pick-and-place task: reaching down to grab an object, lifting it, moving it across its workspace, and placing it precisely onto a pedestal. The robot we used in class was the PincherX-100, a 4-DOF serial arm. The Inverse Kinematics and Trajectory Generation for my project was written by myself. Inverse Kinematics from Scratch Forward kinematics is generally straightforward, given joint angles, multiply through your transformation matrices and you get the end-effector pose. Inverse kinematics is the harder and more interesting...

For Christmas this year I created light up PCB Ornaments for my family.

This is one of the first things which I designed after getting my hands on a Bambu Labs A1 mini. Coming from my old printer the Anet A8, the capabilities of the A1 mini were far above what I could previously imagine. Just the fact that I didn’t need to spend 30 minutes leveling the bed was enough for me to actually want to use the printer. SmallRig used to make a camera cage for the Lumix GX85 m43 camera however it has since been discontinued so I have not been able to get my hands on one. I figured...

Pawns Board is a game created in partnership with Nicolas Galgano for my Object Oriented Design class, written in Java over the course of a few weeks. This project really helped me to get a strong grasp of the Model, View, Controller design structure as well as many other industry standard design patterns. Due to the rules of Khoury School of Computer Science, the code for this project is not public. If you are a recruiter and would like to get access please email me.