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Lucas Wilder

Bio

I am a fourth-year undergraduate student at Michigan Technological University majoring in Electrical Engineering, with a concentration in Enterprise. I'm the leader and co-founder of the Michigan Tech Open Source Hardware Enterprise (Official website), and lab manager for the Audio Engineering Society. I will be graduating in the spring and starting work at Ford Motor Company in their FCG rotational program.

Took the class http://www.appropedia.org/MY4777 Fall of 2014.

Enterprise Fall 2015

This semester I continued to oversee and handle the 3D printing business side of the Enterprise. As the team leader, I kept track of the budget and our financial state, as well as overseeing all the projects. I mainly split my focus between managing the Ford C3 Grant project and getting the Lasersaur up and running.

C3 Grant Project

The initial granulator prototype is almost complete. Andy Schaub and Peter Gorecki have done some great work on the design and machining, and I am ready to install the electronics as soon as the body is assembled. My main contributions have been ordering the parts and keeping the team moving in a forward direction, as well as keeping track of our budget. I also pulled in Cedric Kennedy and his group of students to work on the business plan side of the grant. The prototype is on track to be tested in early February at the latest.

Lasersaur

The Lasersaur is finally coming together. I have been working on the electronics with Tate Hanawalt and on the software with Tate and Ian Peoples. The laser runs and both the door and E-stop buttons function as safety stops, and the laser tube itself is now all boxed up. After doing to some research, I made the decision to replace the stock control board with the much simpler Smoothieboard. However, the Smoothieboard documentation is seriously lacking on the software side, so we are currently in the process of establishing a solid software toolchain. All of the changes made to the software will be up and documented on Appropedia and Github in January once we finish polishing it up. I anticipate this laser cutter to be a big money maker for the enterprise by the time I graduate in the spring.

EE 4777

Completed MTU Delta 3D-Printer
Completed Rock Wall Project: http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:489348
Completed Celtic Design Project: https://www.youmagine.com/designs/celtic-lampshade
Completed Lab Equipment Project: https://github.com/c0nrad/JephiasTools
Completed OSAT Project: Pulleys
Completed Big Money Project: http://libre3d.com/category/655/Plumbing/listings/824/Adapter-for-double-faucet.html

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-== About Me ==
-: Lucas Wilder
-: I am a first-year Electrical Engineering student at Michigan Technological University. My hometown is Grand Haven, MI. I have a passion for messing around with anything electronic or mechanical. I love to take things apart, and my success rate at reassembly is steadily increasing. I am getting involved with the open source hardware movement because I can see it is the future of business and engineering, and I am determined to be at the forefront.
-== Interests ==
+==Lucas Wilder==
-*Robotics- Electronic controls and mechanics
-*Cheating the system- The idea of using a relatively homemade 3D printer to create really expensive scientific equipment cheaply gets me very excited. I'm all about helping people, and what better way to do it than this?
-*Working with my hands- I'd always much rather be experimenting and working on a project than working behind a desk crunching numbers.
-*Learning- I'm always looking for new knowledge that will allow me to expand my skill set. While I don't have any experience programming, I'm dying to be able to program a micro-controller and can't wait to learn. Electronics fascinate me and I want to know how everything works.
-== Experience ==
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-*'''Underwater ROV'''- I led a small team of fellow high school seniors in constructing an underwater Remote Operated Vehicle during the Spring of 2012.
-[[Image:ROV.JPG|thumb|left|The second ROV I helped to construct. Spring 2012.]]
-'''Features''':
-HDPE custom milled side rails with aluminum cross bars for the chassis
-Bilge pump motors housed in custom ABS kort nozzles I helped design and model on Autodesk Inventor in 2011, printed on a Dimension 3D Printer. Custom impeller rig on motor shafts.
+===Bio===
+I am a fourth-year undergraduate student at [[Michigan Technological University]] majoring in Electrical Engineering, with a concentration in Enterprise. I'm the leader and co-founder of the [[Michigan Tech Open Source Hardware Enterprise]] ([http://openhardware.eit.mtu.edu/ Official website]), and lab manager for the Audio Engineering Society. I will be graduating in the spring and starting work at Ford Motor Company in their FCG rotational program.
-Double Cat5 Cable for the tether, delivering power and signal to the motors.
+Took the class http://www.appropedia.org/MY4777 Fall of 2014.
-Custom Controller with SPDT switches wired to onboard relays.
-IR Color board camera in a custom waterproof ABS casing.
+==Enterprise Fall 2015==
+This semester I continued to oversee and handle the 3D printing business side of the Enterprise. As the team leader, I kept track of the budget and our financial state, as well as overseeing all the projects. I mainly split my focus between managing the Ford C3 Grant project and getting the Lasersaur up and running.
-Pneumatic manipulator arm, designed on Autodesk Inventor and then printed out in ABS.
+=C3 Grant Project=
+The initial granulator prototype is almost complete. Andy Schaub and Peter Gorecki have done some great work on the design and machining, and I am ready to install the electronics as soon as the body is assembled. My main contributions have been ordering the parts and keeping the team moving in a forward direction, as well as keeping track of our budget. I also pulled in Cedric Kennedy and his group of students to work on the business plan side of the grant. The prototype is on track to be tested in early February at the latest.
-LED lighting
+=Lasersaur=
+The Lasersaur is finally coming together. I have been working on the electronics with Tate Hanawalt and on the software with Tate and Ian Peoples. The laser runs and both the door and E-stop buttons function as safety stops, and the laser tube itself is now all boxed up. After doing to some research, I made the decision to replace the stock control board with the much simpler Smoothieboard. However, the Smoothieboard documentation is seriously lacking on the software side, so we are currently in the process of establishing a solid software toolchain. All of the changes made to the software will be up and documented on Appropedia and Github in January once we finish polishing it up. I anticipate this laser cutter to be a big money maker for the enterprise by the time I graduate in the spring.
+===EE 4777===
-*'''Science Olympiad'''- I was one of the Team Captains for the Grand Haven Science Olympiad Team for the 2012 season, and I participated in Science Olympiad since 2006.
+*Completed MTU Delta 3D-Printer
-[[Image:Robot_Arm.pdf|thumb|left|An early documentation file of our robot arm]]
+*Completed Rock Wall Project: http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:489348
-Grand Haven Science Olympiad has a long history of high level competition, and has attended every national tournament ever held. As a member of the high school team, our National record was 2nd, 6th, and 3rd this past year. I was a State champion in 4 individual events and National runner-up in two events, one being balsa wood tower building and the other being rubber band helicopter duration. I am unable to show any Science Olympiad pictures featuring our towers or helicopters because I do not wish to compromise the team's designs.
+*Completed Celtic Design Project: https://www.youmagine.com/designs/celtic-lampshade
+*Completed Lab Equipment Project: https://github.com/c0nrad/JephiasTools
+*Completed OSAT Project: [[Pulleys]]
+*Completed Big Money Project: http://libre3d.com/category/655/Plumbing/listings/824/Adapter-for-double-faucet.html
-*'''Extreme Redesign 3D Printing Challenge'''- In the fall of 2011 I entered an competition put on by Dimension, a premier 3D printer company. The contest required entrants to either redesign an existing product to improve upon it, or to create an entirely new product. My entry ended up finishing in the Top 10 in this global engineering competition.
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-To describe my product, first some background is required. My high school recently passed a technology bond and had smart white boards installed in every classroom, accompanied by a "smart cart," bearing a computer used to interface with the board with a monitor mounted on its top. To control the boards, teachers had to use of the two special pens that came with every board, as well as a small remote to operate the projector. However teachers being teachers, they often lost these special implements and then were unable to utilize the valuable technology at their fingertips. So, I designed a simple storage solution I dubbed the "Smart Clip," which clips on top of the LCD monitor on every smart cart and holds the remote and two pens where they are quickly and easily accessible. I also engraved the outline of the school mascot, a buccaneer head, on the top of the clip.
-It took a few tries to get all of the tolerances perfect, but I soon had a fully functional prototype printed on our own Dimension Printer. While waiting for the contest results, I presented my prototype to the school principal and she decided that every classroom in the district should have a Smart Clip. Because of the workload the printer was under from the engineering classes, we were only able to print 15-20 clips before I graduated and sold them to interested teachers in the building. However, the money we gained from this venture was able to fully fund the aforementioned Underwater ROV project. I recently heard that they are now being sold throughout Grand Haven Area Public School District this fall, which is awesome. Even though I did not gain any monetary compensation for this invention, I have a product out there with my name on it and it is benefiting hundreds of people, which is all I can ask for. I will add pictures of the clip soon.

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