Richard Moyer

Projects

Bike Light Mount
Bike Light Mount
28 Feb 2023
Bike Light Mount I’ve had trouble finding a strong enough bike light mount to survive Boston roads, so one day I decided to make my own. This took about 2-3...
Ball Race
Ball Race
28 Nov 2020
Ball Race This is a copy of a ball race I saw one day at a career fair from a 3d printing firm. I was told it was a “waste...
Microcontroller with 3 buttons
Keyboard I/O
12 Jun 2020
“Flame wars” - campus wide chaotic email chains - are an integral part of the MIT experience. They begin when some unlucky soul forgets to BCC all the dorms and...
Nozzle Close-Up
Mask Material Tester
10 Apr 2020
Homemade Mask Material Selection With the current pandemic, shortages of PPE, and growing mandates to wear masks in public, many people are turning to making their own. However, when my...
Micro chip
MIT ID Reader
01 Aug 2018
Background MIT’s 6.002, Circuits and Electronics, has a lab where they teach students how to build a radio circuit to read their ID cards. Since I took the class in...
Yo-yos on grass
Murakami Yo-Yos
01 May 2018
Class 2.008 is known as the yo-yo class at MIT. The registrar calls it Design and Manufacturing II, and we learned about mass manufacturing and process control in the context...
Hydrogen Engine
Hydrogen Engine
01 May 2018
Background In collaboration with the US Navy, the MIT Lincoln Laboratory has been researching reacting pelletized aluminum fuel with water as an alternative power source for long duration underwater missions....
Burner 0
Micro Combustor
01 Feb 2018
Thermophotovoltaic Energy Conversion This project - now Mesodyne - was based on a photonic material that when heated, only emitted blackbody radiation over a very narrow frequency band. This could...
Knife blade cutting paper
Work Hardening Knives
07 Dec 2017
Work Hardening Work hardening, also known as cold forging, is a process where metals are deformed without heating to increase their hardness. On an atomic level, this process increases the...
Solidworks Mockup
Tornado the Robot
01 May 2017
Game Board This class was based off of designing robots to score on a game board, and is basically the foundation for the FIRST robotics competitions. This year, our game...