USC Makers

University Electrical Engineering ClubUSC Makers

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.

The SmarTender robot, a rail-mounted gantry over a row of bottles with colored LEDs, next to a laptop.
SmarTender View 1
SmarTender seen from above, showing its bottles and lit LEDs.
SmarTender View 2
Close-up of dark gears on an aluminum rail lit by blue LEDs.
Gears for lifting mechanism
Breadboard with colorful wiring next to a whiteboard sketch of a multi-stage filter circuit.
BCI hardware setup
Plot of a raw EEG signal above a bar chart of its frequency bands.
Filter raw EEG signals and convert to frequency domain
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