Design, fabricate, and validate a dual-mode dynamic impact testing platform to quantify the impact resistance of NASA Thermal Protection System (TPS) tiles, the ceramic shielding used on spacecraft during atmospheric re-entry. The system needed to fire projectiles at velocities up to 100 m/s and deliver controlled pendulum impacts across multiple test configurations, all within a fully enclosed safety enclosure. 

Designed and built a real-time sprint pacing wearable from scratch, integrating a custom IMU foot pod, Android app, and BLE-connected smart glasses to give athletes eyes-up pacing feedback mid-rep. Developed the full stack including foot pod firmware, calibration, pacing algorithms, and the Android application. Validated step detection to 49 ms accuracy against video ground truth. 

Designed and fabricated a miniaturized rover constrained to CubeSat dimensions (10×10×20 cm) capable of autonomously deploying and retrieving extremophile samples on a simulated planetary surface. The rover was built to address a speculative but scientifically grounded problem: testing whether extremophile microorganisms could survive extraterrestrial conditions on a newly discovered planet, offering a potential pathway for future off-Earth agriculture. 

Developed and tuned the control system for a reaction-wheel self-balancing motorcycle. Analyzed system stability through pole-zero and root locus methods in MATLAB and iteratively tuning a negative-gain PID balance controller through hardware testing. Completed the 2-meter autonomous race course in 1.8 seconds with zero falls and zero penalties.