About Us
We're a team of students from Olin and Wellesley Colleges.
Grant Miner
Grant did not have any experience working with stepper motors before this project, so elected to take on learning about motors, their drivers, and libraries. Despite his best efforts, he burned out several motor drivers. In the process of taking on the role of electrical/firmware lead, he gained significant experience with soldering and protecting wires from shorts. While spearheading the integration, he experienced the supreme satisfaction of anticipating issues before they happened. He also developed some impressive dexterity with hex keys and multimeter probes.
Ishaan Oberoi
Ishaan is someone that loves spending time in CAD to design mechanisms that move. On this project, he worked mainly on the mechanical design, creating the linear motion components, the belt and pulley system, and the turret mechanism. He loved the challenge of spending as little as possible on mechanical design and using as many resources such as scrap material, going through the freecycle, and 3D printing to make this project a reality.
Evelyn Kessler
Before this project Evelyn didn’t know what a camera slider was. After some quick googling, they caught up and got started on the wiring and coding of the user interface. They pivoted multiple times in response to technical difficulties with multiple different LCD displays, until they eventually triumphed and along with Annika delivered a touch screen interface. They also employed their HTML experience to create this website.
Annika Pfister
Annika was interested in learning about user interfaces and getting some tangential exposure to mechanical design. She focused on iterating through LCD screens to a final touch screen product with Evelyn, and gained a lot of experience working with Adafruit libraries in Arduino. She also now understands how a basic gantry works.