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 IZ VARLAND
Engineering Portfolio

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Rotorcraft Aeromechanics Intern

Iz spent summer break of 2024 interning as an engineer in the aeromechanics branch at NASA Ames. They developed testing methods for physical attributes of small scale rotorcraft blades.

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Searcher

An autonomous suction cup pick-and-place robot. It uses IsaacLab, IsaacSim, PyTorch, ONNX, a custom trained object recognition model, and more, to identify objects and transfer them from one bin to another. All controlled from a laptop running a custom Tkinter app and serial communication.

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Red Rover

​An autonomous electric go-kart made using AWS DeepRacer, SageMaker, and RoboMaker. Presented at the 2019 Bay Area Maker Faire and re:Invent 2019.

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Puck-a-tron

A fly-wheel device that launches 1/3rd scale hockey pucks. Variable angles and velocities are controlled using a remote control communicating with an Arduino Romeo. Speeds range from 10-60 mph.

Boise State University's submissions for the 2023 and 2024 NASA Micro-g NExT Challenges; 2023 being an automatic zip-tie deploying device for use during space walks outside the International Space Station. 2024 being a new flagpole for the moon and other future NASA EVA locations. 

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Micro-g NExT

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