Nicolas Crivelli
Engineering Projects
Bio-Inpired Design
In this project, our team consisting of Andy Occhipinti, Stamen TIntikov, and myself, was tasked with designing and building a robot that could travel 3 meters using bio-inspired locomotion. We utilized 1/4" acrylic, an Arduino Mega, and position servos to create our robot. With an open-ended design challenge, we were able to use our imagination to create a robot that outperformed the rest and finished first in the class.
Big Robot & The Ravager
During my high school years, I designed and built two 120 lb robots for Bots IQ battles. The Big Robot was my junior year project, where I gained in schematics and gear reductions. The Ravager was my senior year project, which had a more thought-out design with two drum weapons instead of a single spinning weapon like the Big Robot.
GE's Jet Engine Bracket Challenge
This challenge was open to the public for the purpose of optimizing weight of the given bracket and presenting a new solution. Stamen Tinkikov, Frank La Marca and myself worked on running a hypermesh optmization program to the inital piece, generating a new solution, and perfoming an FEA analysis on the new solution based ont he given load conditions.