TenniSorter
As a capstone engineering project in high school, I was left to identify any problem I wanted to work on. I identified that tennis coaches and clubs have to hand sort through thousands of tennis balls by squeezing each and every one. This is not only time consuming, but can cause wrist and hand pain for coaches and employees. In response I designed and prototyped a machine that allows users to dump a basket of balls in and the machine will sort the balls by pressure. I worked on the entirety of this machine, from the sorting mechanism to the code that runs it. I also wrote the technical documentation that allowed our small team to apply for a patent (US20180326263A1).