06 Sustainability · UW
Beach Cleaning Device
2022
Lede
First senior capstone. A sand-sifter for picking microplastics out of beaches.
Detail
My first big mechanical project. A wheeled rig that scoops sand, separates particles smaller than a threshold, and dumps the rest back. Got built, got tested on a real beach, sort of worked. The interesting part was less the mechanism and more learning that field testing exposes every assumption you made in CAD.
Stack
- CAD
- Mechanical prototyping
- Field testing