Brandon Fogg

Welcome to my Projects Page

I have sought out opportunities to use my skills to support projects over the years and captured a selection of my favorites in this page. I have built and programmed competitive robots, designed and implemented a high-fidelity analog audio amplifier, leveraged integrated circuits to create a CPU with custom architecture, developed an in-line water quality testing device, and most recently, constructed a position-aware camera system for accurately locating damage on an airplane.

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Capstone Design – Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (2023)

  • Acting team lead for team of seven
  • Proof of concept design project for a major airplane manufacturer
  • System will be used during airplane inspection process to map airframe damage to its digital twin
  • Objective to develop a camera inspection system and locating methodology to accurately record images along with position and orientation data
  • Camera System includes an image capture system, positioning system, Light Detection and Ranging unit (LiDAR), and Inertial Measurement Unit (IMU) to determine damage location in airplane coordinate system
  • System testing with a robotic arm

Introduction to Engineering Design – Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (2021)

  • Team of six
  • Engineering design project to develop an in-line water quality monitoring system for household use
  • Includes sensors for pH, temperature, Total Dissolved Solids (TDS), Turbidity, Oxidation Reduction Potential (ORP)
  • Sensor package installed in sink water lines and wirelessly transmits data to countertop display (shown on right)
  • Owner of subsystem for countertop display

Microprocessor Electronics – Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology (2019)

  • Precursor project to my Senior Research
  • Demonstrate functionality of MC6802 microprocessor
  • Compute 8-bit arithmetic and output to LEDs

Digital Electronics – Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology (2019)

  • Team of three
  • Precursor project to my Senior Research
  • Leverage integrated circuits to create a 16-bit CPU with custom architecture
  • Arithmetic Logic Unit (shown on right) computes SHIFT, NAND, & ADD for 16-bit inputs
  • Input/Output (orange), Latched Input 2 (green), Unbuffered Output (blue), Buffered Output, (purple), Control (yellow)
  • Additional boards for control, memory, I/O

Analog Electronics – Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology (2018)

  • High-fidelity audio amplifier
  • Four-stage voltage amplification
  • High-pass filter
  • Single-stage power amplification
  • Can drive >60W at 30V (output power depends on speaker impedance)

Robot Project – Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology (2016 – 2017)

  • Robot competition
  • Two configurations: obstacle course (shown on right), torque (shown in gallery above)
  • Robot navigates an obstacle course/maze and pushes cups into zones autonomously
  • Robot competes in a tug-of-war competition