Michelle W Zhou

Recirculating Hydration Module

Pathology requires rehydration of wax tissue blocks, and this modular fluid-mechanical design offers 2 methods of delivering water from a reservoir to a set of blocks in a controlled and easily-cleanable manner.

3D Resin Print Hydration

Skills trained: design for drop-in replacement, 3D resin printing-washing-drying process, tolerancing, product validation testing (design)

Lance, a Combat Robot

The 2021-22 Sportsman Robot of Combat Robotics @ Cornell

Lance is a 12 lb combat robot designed, manufactured, and assembled by a team of 9 Cornell students. He is teleoperated, operates on a smooth indirect drive, and wields a snappy 11” aluminum lance.

Full Assembly lance_angled_sexy

Skills trained: project management, soldering, mechanical assembly, problem-solving tolerancing issues, drivetrain design, design reasoning

Review of Electrospun Nanofiber Design

A Scientific Literature Review - Cornell MAE 4670 Polymer Mechanics

Document download (pdf file)

The Breathuino

Mechatronics Individual Project - Cornell MAE 3780

The Breathuino is a physical visualization of one’s heartbeat that expands and contracts, meant to facilitate deep breaths and relaxation. The user begins the kinetic art piece’s movement by interacting with a TCS3200 color sensor and a push button.

Assembly Drawing Breathuino Horizontal

Skills trained: debugging hardware and Arduino code, basic circuit design, artistic execution

Belle, a Block Collecting Robot

Mechatronics Group Project - Cornell MAE 3780

My team of 3 (Michelle Zhou, Bruno Tassari, and Alvaro Lee Borrell) designed, built, and coded a robot using lab materials for the Robot Competition Showcase in Duffield on December 7, 2021. Our bot features block detection by means of 2 ultrasonic sensors, color detection, and black border detection by means of 2 QTI sensors. Our strategy is slow and steady with intelligence and combative skills.

Belle

Circuit 1 Circuit 2

Skills trained: coding with registers in Arduino, techncial datasheet usage, circuit diagram drawing, troubleshooting, code breakdown then integration, pair coding

Double-Piston Water Pump

Mechanical Synthesis Group Project - Cornell MAE 2250

pump

Skills trained: collaboration, honesty and communication, CADing in Fusion 360, milling, drilling, tapping and threading holes, LaTeX typesetting

Customized Research Drone

Test flights on-site

mines drones

Skills trained: data collection workflow, troubleshooting, debugging

Integrating Intel RealSense camera with system

cameras

Skills trained: coding with C++ in ROS environment, version control