William Rice

<rice dot w at northeastern dot edu>

Electrical Engineering Student at Northeastern University

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About Me

I’m an Electrical Engineering student with minors in Mathematics, Computer Science, and Film Studies. I’m passionate about engineering, thoughtful product design, and creative problem solving.

In my free time, I create tools and systems that help me remove distractions and make simple, everyday tasks elegant in their experience. Check out my projects below!

Recent Projects

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Minty Midi

Ongoing - Started Summer 2025

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!

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Pawns Board

Spring 2025

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.

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Smart Terrarium

Spring 2024

The smart terrarium was a project for my Cornerstone of Engineering class where a few classmates and I created a terrarium which could control its lighting and humidity automatically as well as give the user readouts about the status of the terrarium. Creating this terrarium helped to strengthen my ability to design products from start to prototype, I worked on every aspect from the mechanical design of the enclosure, to the electrical design and inter-connectivity of the components, and all software design.

Resume & References

To avoid spam, I've chosen to not upload my resume, I hope you'll understand. Please email me (top of page) for my resume and references.

Feel free to check out my GitHub or LinkedIn in the meantime!