Meet the Team

What did we do?

A list of personal reasponsibilities

SAI THUTA KYAW Electrical Engineer	Team Coordinator As a team coordinator, Sai is responsible for organizing team meetings with advisors and course evaluators. His main job is to make sure the chess pieces move so he has been working on experimenting with different components and surfaces to find the best materials for the project. He and Jack has developed protocol via UART for the gantry's microcontroller to talk to the Raspberry Pi's Path Planning. Lately he's optimizing the ATmega328p that controls the gantry movement for speed, efficiency and elegance.
SAMANTHA KLEIN Electrical Engineer	Budget Manager While making sure the team doesn't overspend its budget, Sam is primilarly responsible for the magnetic fast-sensing portion of the project. She is working on multiplexing 64 Hall Sensors (8 at a time) with a microcontroller to read and convey the user's movement from the board to the web via the Pi. To keep the final project clean from wiring 64 different sensors, she is working on designing printed circuit board for each sensor array as well as another one to connect all the inputs for processing. She has also worked diligently on researching different hardware parts suitable for different subsystems in this project.
JACK DEGUGLIELMO Computer Engineer	Altium Lead While Jack works on his path planning, he also keeps an eye out for PCB projects since it is an important portion of the project. He'll check and make sure the PCBs are sent out on time. As mentioned above, he and Sai has worked on defining how the Raspberry Pi talks with ATmega328p for controlling the XY gantry. He has implemented Greedy BFS Algorithm for path planning to ensure chess pieces never run into each other. He has also been crutial in building the 8020 aluminium frame for the final project.
WEISHAN LI Computer Engineer	Python Charmer As the title suggests, most of Wei's work is coded in Python to run the main program on the Raspberry Pi. He is responsible for integrating Lichess.com's API with our own sub-programs to play games on MagiChess via Lichess Online. He takes sole responsibility for the development of MagiChess's graphical program that everyone sees and interacts with on MagiChess. He is currently working with Sam to implement the magnetic fast-scanning interface.

Team Coordinator

As a team coordinator, Sai is responsible for organizing team meetings with advisors and course evaluators. His main job is to make sure the chess pieces move so he has been working on experimenting with different components and surfaces to find the best materials for the project. He and Jack has developed protocol via UART for the gantry's microcontroller to talk to the Raspberry Pi's Path Planning. Lately he's optimizing the ATmega328p that controls the gantry movement for speed, efficiency and elegance.

SAMANTHA KLEIN
Electrical Engineer

Budget Manager

While making sure the team doesn't overspend its budget, Sam is primilarly responsible for the magnetic fast-sensing portion of the project. She is working on multiplexing 64 Hall Sensors (8 at a time) with a microcontroller to read and convey the user's movement from the board to the web via the Pi. To keep the final project clean from wiring 64 different sensors, she is working on designing printed circuit board for each sensor array as well as another one to connect all the inputs for processing. She has also worked diligently on researching different hardware parts suitable for different subsystems in this project.

JACK DEGUGLIELMO
Computer Engineer

Altium Lead

While Jack works on his path planning, he also keeps an eye out for PCB projects since it is an important portion of the project. He'll check and make sure the PCBs are sent out on time. As mentioned above, he and Sai has worked on defining how the Raspberry Pi talks with ATmega328p for controlling the XY gantry. He has implemented Greedy BFS Algorithm for path planning to ensure chess pieces never run into each other. He has also been crutial in building the 8020 aluminium frame for the final project.

WEISHAN LI
Computer Engineer

Python Charmer

As the title suggests, most of Wei's work is coded in Python to run the main program on the Raspberry Pi. He is responsible for integrating Lichess.com's API with our own sub-programs to play games on MagiChess via Lichess Online. He takes sole responsibility for the development of MagiChess's graphical program that everyone sees and interacts with on MagiChess. He is currently working with Sam to implement the magnetic fast-scanning interface.