Hey there, I'm Thad

Designed and fabricated a custom kite control unit as part of a AWE crosswind kite power system. Collaborated on a double and triple nested closed loop controller. System behavior was validated through extensive MATLAB simulations before conducting field tests at windy sites around Washington State.

Designed and engineered a forklift style lifting mechanism for assisting in loading low level sedan trunks. Calculated needed torque and RPM of stepper motors for lifting needed load. Constructed lifting mechanism with a lead screw and lead nut, linear bearing guides, and wood.

Determined needed components for printing flexible parts, compressible parts, and high CTE polymers. Installed insulation, power cable riser, and heating element for high warp plastics. Printed out a direct feeding solution for flexible thermoplastic printing.

Hosted a heavily modded (>300 mods) Minecraft server for friends and family. Created a off-site VPS traffic director for home network DDoS protection. Used WireGuard protocols to encrypt and tunnel TCP and UDP traffic from VPS to the server computer.

Used Tailscale to create my own VPN for remote access and privacy. Combined with a Raspberry Pi running Debian to send wake on LAN packets to my main computer. Set up network traffic exit node for securing unsafe connections, IP masking, and avoiding geoblocks.

Used a Raspberry Pi for a isolated Uptime Kuma client to monitor homelab services. Set up notification sending through Discord Webhooks to a private server and channel. A separate Raspberry Pi is used for DNS routing.

Using Tailscale and a FileBrowser docker container, set up cloud storage for personal use. Scanned over 60 music albums and set up Navidrome for personal music streaming. Leveraged high speed NVMe storage for databases and high capacity network attached drives for mass storage.

Used MATLAB to model a cooling system involving ice water, copper pipes, and a industrial fan. Graphically showed head loss, various pipe lengths, and heat transfer rate vs volumetric flow rate for the model. Experimented model against a real life model, which showed better than model performance due to condensation.

Used SIMULINK to create multiple controller models for a cruise controlled car. Compared 4 different controller type outputs and their overall performance. Tuned closed loop P, PI, and PID controllers for performance.

Using the game Hard Chip, learned logic gates, MOS, and ALUs. Started from modeling metal oxide semiconductors, to making logic gates, to making, modeing, and testing an 8bit ALU. Took detailed notes on logic gate and ALU structure.