Projects

Every year, Engineering House participates in Imagine RIT and Maker Faire — RIT's annual Innovation and Creativity Festival and one of the largest maker events in the country. Here are some of our projects.

Mustang PRS

Project Lead — Jack Desantis

The purpose of the Power Series Racing is to modify a kid’s electric toy to race around a track and impress the crowd for a maximum of 500$. Makerspaces, Hackerspaces, highschools and colleges all jump in on the fun and build their masterpieces to race around a track at high speeds and wear funny costumes/have funny cars to impress the crowd for bonus Moxie points. These races happen at many Makerfaires around the country and we did quite well for our first race ever down in Queens, NY.

Beltsander Racing

Project Lead — Gus Trisnati & Kaden Boyle

A high speed raceway for belt sanders that we present at Rochester Museum & Science Center.

Human Hamster Wheel

Project Lead — Cam Goldinger

A 7-foot-tall hamster wheel you can actually run on! One of our biggest and most popular attractions at Imagine RIT.

All Seeing Eye

Project Lead — Nat Krah

A tentacle arm that uses computer vision to track movement. Behind the scenes, a system of intricate pulleys works in tandem with Python and C code to bring the arm to life.

RC Plane

Project Lead — Alex Polo & Adam Riley

An in-house, fully 3D-printed RC aircraft created as a student engineering project. The design highlights how aerodynamic structure and electronic control systems integrate into a functional platform. Developed to practice CAD, fabrication, and iterative testing.

Synthia

Project Lead — Jeremy Wallace

Project Synthia is a brand-new Engineering House Project, focusing on Audio Hardware and Software Engineering. We have been working tirelessly since the beginning of the year to create a synthesizer based on the Suzuki Omnichord. Through this project, members have learned digital and analog electronics, advanced CAD, PCB Design, embedded programming, and music theory, all to create one instrument. What will be shown throughout the exhibit are the results of our work, through music notated and performed by our Music team. The exhibit will include the process and technology developed to make this project a reality.

Micro Mouse

Project Lead — Dylan

An autonomous maze solving robot based off the competition of the same name. This tiny robot blends ideas of mechanical, electrical and software engineering.

Freshman Project

Each year, our elected Freshman Representative (FRep) — a first-year member of Engineering House — leads a small project to improve or decorate the floor. This year's FRep project is adding a light sign in the window. It's a great way for first-years to get involved and make their mark on the house right away.

If you want to learn more about our projects, feel free to look at our GitHub where we have recently started to document our projects.