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