A portfolio of things I've made or done
Hi I'm Connor! This website is here to showcase my various creations and accomplishments, mostly dedicated towards engineering/robotics projects, but I'll also throw in some artwork or other hobbies for fun. I'm in my last year as an Honors Computer Engineering at the University of Pittsburgh, with a minor in Mathematics.
Here are an overview of skills you can count on me for. Importantly, I'm an avid learner and happy to tackle new challenges and develop new skills for any task at hand.
Here you can see a collection of my various technical creations over the years, some for school, some personal. I've added a summary and a link to another page (GitHub or Standalone Cite) for each one!
I made a robot that can solve Rubik's cubes autonomously and quite fast! It was designed to be easily used with normal Rubik's cubes, so that you can take the cube in and out of the robot quickly. More details in the linked GitHub page
I’m the project leader for the Pitt Robotics and Automation Society Robot Arms Project. I lead a team of 5-7 students in developing diverse robotic arm applications. I manage task distribution, mentor team members, and contribute directly to each project. One of our successful projects last semester was establishing control of an arm using computer vision and ML tracking a human’s arm joints. We presented this project at the city of Pittsburgh’s annual robotics convention.
This project was part of the class Art Of Making. I made these gloves which have wearable electronics embedded in them to let you play piano on any surface! This was a group project but I did all the hardware and software myself, since the other members were working on another project for our group at the same time.
This project was part of the class Art Of Making. This was our capstone project, it is an automated system to rinse and recycle dirty coffee cups, designed to be conveniently used at your local coffee shop. I was the electrical and software and lead.
This project was part of the class Art Of Making. We made an IoT device which lets you control a dog food dispenser from an app on your phone, anywhere in the world! It uses littleBits, which is a cool electronic prototyping system for people who have no electronics experience.
This project was part of the class Art Of Making. We used the Makey Makey system, which lets you turn any object into a button, and made a fun a videogame controller out of it!
Here you can see a collection of my various creative creations over the years. There isn't as much content here yet but I hope to add more in the future as I pursue more creative endeavors.
Youtube Video of me performing Liebestraum no. 3 by Liszt, a famous piano piece.
I made two self portraits from the same source image, one using the Grisaille style, and one using abstract/expressive coloring. Water-mixable oil paints on canvas. Grisaille is a really fun and interesting style where you only use a single tube (in this case brown) of paint, and thin it with oil and water to create lighter shades.
I made a website that let's you automatically generate many variations of colors to choose from for posterized style images, and then I also painted one myself of my friend from high school and gave it as a gift to him. The image is the painting(s), but the website is linked.
You can email me at my school email cbm54@pitt.edu. Alternatively, DM me on LinkedIn.
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