Joshua Gier

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Courses

  • Analog Circuits

    EE 171

  • Assembly and C Programming

    CMPE 12

  • Circuits

    EE 101

  • Intro to Mechatronics

    CMPE 118

  • Logic Design

    CMPE 100

  • PCB - Intro to EDA tools

    EE 174

  • Power Electronics

    EE 177

  • Properties of Materials

    EE 145

  • RF Hardware Design

    EE 157

  • Signals and Systems

    EE 103

  • Vector Calculus

    MATH 23B

Projects

  • Power Scavenging for Mountain Lion Collar

    The lifetime of ecological tracking collars are currently limited by their battery capacity. The most substantial economic cost associated with ecological tracking is locating and capturing the animal, as is necessary to replace their tracking collar. Additionally, doing so is disruptive to the animal, inhibiting their natural behavior.

    Under the guidance of UCSC graduate student Max Litchenstein, I helped design a power scavenging circuit that would convert the natural periodic…

    The lifetime of ecological tracking collars are currently limited by their battery capacity. The most substantial economic cost associated with ecological tracking is locating and capturing the animal, as is necessary to replace their tracking collar. Additionally, doing so is disruptive to the animal, inhibiting their natural behavior.

    Under the guidance of UCSC graduate student Max Litchenstein, I helped design a power scavenging circuit that would convert the natural periodic motion of the animal into usable energy. The work entailed system level block diagram design, component selection, prototyping, testing, and PCB design and layout.

  • Tensegrity Robot - Model

    Utilized string, wooden dowels and metal clips to create a tensegrity robot model designed by graduate student Dawn Schultz. Applications for tensegrity robots include prosthetics, structural augmentation, and planetary rovers.

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  • Autonomous Robot

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    In our Introduction to Mechatronics course, we were tasked tasked with the design of a fully autonomous robot, to be deployed on randomized fields. By the end of the 5 week period, the robot successfully followed tape, loaded ping pong balls from a dispenser, and deposited them into two of three targets. This task required hierarchical state machine driven software, design, test,and assembly of 3 types of electronic sensors with analog to digital conversion, and a robust mechanical design…

    In our Introduction to Mechatronics course, we were tasked tasked with the design of a fully autonomous robot, to be deployed on randomized fields. By the end of the 5 week period, the robot successfully followed tape, loaded ping pong balls from a dispenser, and deposited them into two of three targets. This task required hierarchical state machine driven software, design, test,and assembly of 3 types of electronic sensors with analog to digital conversion, and a robust mechanical design capable of navigating and interacting with the field.
    Design of the robot required interdisciplinary knowledge of event driven software (C), electronics, and mechanical design (SolidWorks). I was tasked with the design and fabrication of the electronic components, Hari, the software and Jason, the mechanical design. However, despite the apparent division of labor, the small size of the team required all of us to make contributions in each area, and the lines were blurred as software-hardware-mechanical integration progressed.
    Our bot performed the task successfully, 4 days before the deadline. If you'd like to see more, please check out our website!

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  • IEEE

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