JAMES MONACO

Summer 2020

Developed a platform to automatically receive, demodulate, and process transient weather satellite signals into near real-time images of the earth.

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A successful prototype was developed that can do this task for up to five days, until its battery runs out. 

Transient Weather Satellite Capture

Satellite Systems

Winter 2019

A heart rate monitor was designed out of analog parts from a piezio-electric sensor and built on a breadboard.

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Analog signal processing, amplification, filtering, and design were all sills practiced in this project.

Heart Rate Monitor

Analog Design

Spring 2019

Coded VHDL to use an FPGA to take a message inputted by a user and output it as Morse code, via light and sound.

VHDL: Morse Code Translator

Digital Design

Learned how to operate machine shop tools such as lathes, mills, TIG and MIG welding, and CNC routers. Helped researchers and students fabricate their projects, and maintained equipment.

Machine Shop TA

Machining, Maintenance, Instruction

Started Winter 2019

Spring 2019

Used op-amp circuits to construct PID control of an inverted pendulum. This controlled a car's acceleration to balance a stick on a pivot, with a sensor to detect the stick's angular position.

PID Control:

Inverted Pendulum

Control Theory

Designing, building, and heat treating custom knives for personal use and on commission has been a hobby of mine since high school.

Knifemaking

and Metalwork

Personal Expression and Design

Ongoing since Spring 2015

Fall 2019

As President of Hobart and William Smith's Engineering Club, I guided a group of 12-16 students in building a garden that monitors and waters itself through Arduino-controlled circuits

Engineering Leadership:

Arduino-Controlled Garden

Project Management, Budgeting, and Planning