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Joshua Drake (opens on the publisher’s site)

joshuadrake.org

  1. Joshua Drake

    Introduction This project involved retrofitting our Cessna Project with higher voltage components for NASA testing. They were interested in determining the transient impact of a coupled electrical system on a turbine engine, and selected us to acquire this data. My particular contribution involved making the board and writing the software for a variable load, fabricating the harnesses, integrating

  2. Joshua Drake

    Introduction In the winter of 2023 I was asked to assist with the electrical fabrication and programming necessary to drive a high power axial compressor using a large battery bank and electric motor. The project ended up being far more involved than I anticipated it to be, and thus I had some interesting contributions. The project is nearing completion as of late May, so more details and pictures

  3. Joshua Drake

    Introduction The origin of this project involved a speculative, ostentatious bid and the “CrowdStrike” server outage. This combination resulted in me obtaining a Mini Cooper for cheap, though it was not without its issues. Almost none of these issues were related to the subject of this article, the rebuild of a BMW N12 engine, but the temperamental nature of this family of engines made the rebuild

  4. Joshua Drake

    Introduction This was originally a senior design project to create a controllable resistive load for a turbo generator on which I served as an advisor. The project was left just shy of complete, and I redid some of the work including replacing the Arduino with a custom embedded system, replacing inadequate crimps/wires, and other miscellaneous tasks. This project is essentially a baby version of o

Chris Minnick (opens on the publisher’s site)

www.chrisminnick.com