Portfolio / Daniel Teal
Hello, world.
I'm Daniel Teal, an engineer. I've just finished my PhD at Berkeley where I studied microfabrication. I appreciate kindness, freedom, morality, and a good day's work. I look forward to nanotechnology, spaceflight, and a good future.
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I build things. Hardware, software, electronics. Sometimes from the atoms up. Here are some of them in chronological order. Some counts as research.
2024
PhD Thesis: Printing Silicon
Multimaterial Nanoscale Printing
via Charged Nanoparticle Deposition
Vacuum Nanoparticle Deposition
custom vacuum+process equipment for research
(see PhD dissertation for detail)
HV Arbitrary Waveform Generator
modular ±100V 1MHz programmable outputs
(see PhD dissertation for detail)
2023
NMOS Transistors
from teaching Berkeley's EE143 microfabrication course
2022
Localized Joule Heating
playing with on-chip multipoint temperature control
https://doi.org/10.1109/MEMS51670.2022.9699553
2021
Better Robust MEMS Motors
including the world's longest MEMS electrostatic motor
https://doi.org/10.1109/Transducers50396.2021.9495446
2020
MEMS Microrobot Grippers
demonstrating macroscopic MEMS electrostatic motors
https://doi.org/10.1109/MEMS46641.2020.9056128
2019
Robotic Couch
motorized all-terrain cushioned seating
Nanowire Manipulation Platform
electric tweezers system for nanowire control research
2018
Alluvial
three-day hexapod robot
Nanowire Experiments
investigating nanowire network electrical behavior
UT IEEE RAS Website
rewritten in Bootstrap
2017
Curmudgeon
three-day jumping robot
Microfabricated Piezo Sensors
surface acoustic wave energy harvesting devices
2016
Freedom to Make
maker spirit statue
Lasered Chess
an exercise in rapid prototyping
Battletank Mesa
dual-monitor workstation
PIano
Raspberry Pi keyboard system
MARKOVI
balancing robot chassis
DCKX
xkcd headline illustrator
Head Impact Test Rig
ballistic baseball research system
Energy Storage Demo Rig
pumped-storage hydroelectricity demonstration model
2015
Ultron
wooden competition roomba
Sensel Gesture Interface
swiping keyboard with relative positioning
UAV Audio Detection
detecting quadcopters via audio signal processing
GiraPHPHe
FTC Team 4290 2014-2015 pneumatic powerhouse
2014
FERmi 14
symmetrical teleoperated sumobot
POV Globe
persistence-of-vision LEDs
FTC 4290 2013-2014
experiments in gearing
Sinusoidesque
simple arbitrary "sinusoid" visualizer
2013
FTC 4290 2012-2013
holonomic drives are hard
2012
Creator 3D
"stochastic" "constraint solving" CAD sketcher
PHobia
FTC Team 4290 2011-2012 gateway competition robot
Tetris
blocks in TI-89 TI-BASIC
Mendelssohn
3D printing from scratch
