Jorge Reyes

Digital portfolio

ROLLER INTAKE (2011)

Designed the intake mechanism
structure and roller wheel
assembly which is pictured on
the left side of the robot. When
deployed, rotates clockwise to
pick up racquetballs and would
store them into container
dragged by the robot.

LIFT STRUCTURE (2012)

Designed the lift mechanism
housing (left) which mounted
on the robot as shown (right)
and the motor mount which
allows the central lead screw
and bottom motor to connect.

T-SHIRT CANNON (2013)

Started this project to train new
robotics team members during
the pre-season. There is an
onboard compressor in addition
to a tank to improve air
availability. A lead screw
underneath the cannon housing
controls firing angle and air
pressure and number of t-shirts
fired can be controlled with
controller. Each cannon has
own air reservoir inside cannon
housing to improve shooting
power. Has light sensor inside
cannon to detect presence of a tshirt. Equipped with 2 speed
gearboxes for better use in wide
open spaces.

MODULAR INTAKE (2013)

The previous year, the lift
mechanism broke and we were
unable to fix it so I developed
several intake mechanisms, one
which is shown here. This one
wheel and two arm design was
optimized for receiving the ball
at waist level, other intake
assemblies were developed to
receive at ground level and
catch high passes. The side
panels were modular and
allowed for the addition of a
shooting mechanism.

STERLING ENGINE (2013)

Over the summer of my
sophomore year in high school,
designed sterling engines
mostly as just a fun exercise as I
lacked the machining resources
to make it at the time. This
engine would be able to spin the
flywheel solely from the heat of
your palm.

VERTICAL GEARBOX
(2014)
The summer of my junior year
in high school developed
gearboxes that my team could
produce given its limited
resources and would be cheaper
and more compact than off the
shelf models. This model is a
vertically stacked, 3 motor, 2
speed gearbox. The driveshaft
attached directly to the wheels.

HORIZONTAL GEARBOX
(2014)
After designing the first
gearbox, configured the motors
horizontally to make the
gearbox more compact.
Designed a 2-motor version and
3-motor version that can easily
be adapted to function with one
to three motors. Both the
horizontal and vertical use a
pancake cylinder to shift gears.

DRIVETRAIN & CHASSIS

(2014)
Designed this chassis to replace
the traditionally used chassis
seen in the robots of 2012 and
2013.Center wheels are directly
driven and outer wheels are
driven through belt going inside
the rectangular tubing. Designed
to replace wheels within 30
seconds by unscrewing socket
cap screw on outside of wheel
and exchanging wheel. Wheels
used hex hubs for this to work

DRIVETRAIN & CHASSIS

(2015)
Used designs from the summer
to design the competition
drivetrain and chassis which
required an open front. Rear
wheel drive with two omni
directional wheels in the front.
At competition, we could push
other robots with only one
motor per gearbox (average is 2
or 3 per gearbox)

LIFTING ROBOT (2015)

While specifically responsible
for the design of drivetrain, as
captain managed the design the
overall robot and this resulted
being the best robot the team
had ever built. Due to a lot of
design considerations and CAD,
not one thing broke a
competition. This allowed the
team to win an award for its
incredible reliability.
It used pneumatic grippers and
pneumatic lift mechanism to
stock totes as shown.

WIND FARM MODEL

(2013 - 2015)
Over the summers I worked at
PSU, took satellite imagery,
used AutoCAD to make the
terrain, laser cut foam sheets
and constructed this terrain
model with the scale turbines
(note chair in background for
relative size). The scaling was
such that the aerodynamic
properties of the scale turbines
would be like those of the real
turbines and power
measurements are taken from
electric motor on scale turbine.