# USC Makers

- Organization: [USC Makers](https://viterbimakers.usc.edu/)
- Role: University Electrical Engineering Club
- Dates: Sep 2023 – present
- Topics: Robotics, Brain-computer interface, EEG, Embedded systems, Signal processing
- Page: https://www.cedarroseleach.com/work/usc-makers/

> Built SmarTender, an autonomous drink-making robot, and an EEG-controlled drone driven by a custom brain-computer interface.

USC Makers is a university club that encourages students to build innovative and fun projects, fostering hands-on learning and creative problem-solving through engineering challenges.

The reason I love this club so much is that we **build** simply for the **fun of building**. Throw practicality out the window and just ***create***.

### SmarTender

During the 2023–24 school year, I worked with my team to create an autonomous assembly line robot that dispenses and prepares beverages depending on user input.

We modeled its movement mechanisms after 3D printer linear rails and implemented different beverage combinations with an ice-dispensing function and some fun LEDS.

### BCD - Brain Controlled Drone

During the 2024–25 school year, I made an EEG-controlled drone using a custom brain-computer interface.

We implemented drone flight commands trained on processed neural signals retrieved from the BCI.

Figures:
- SmarTender View 1
- SmarTender View 2
- Gears for lifting mechanism
- BCI hardware setup
- Filter raw EEG signals and convert to frequency domain

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By Cedar Rose Leach (cdleach@usc.edu). Site summary: /llms.txt