Portfolio
Jose Luis Santiago
About the Portfolio
This portfolio webpage is a highlight reel consisting of my favorite projects. I hope you enjoy reading through them as much as I enjoyed working on them.
Demo for video game titled Purgatory I have been working
on since I graduated college in Spring 2021. I made all
the pixel art and programmed the character to run based
on HeartBeast's Godot RPG tutorial on YouTube. Use the
arrow keys on your keyboard to move the character
around the environment
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As a FIKA Tech Academy scholar, I worked in a 5-person team to
prepare and present projects tailored for the tech industry.
Project materials consisted of: soft skills training, product design,
marketing, sales, and venture capital/entrepreneurship.
As college students, my team and I wanted more of a say on what
kinds of designs were printed onto college apparel. We wanted clothes that better
represented us and our school community. To address this issue,
my team and I decided a website to crowdsource college apparel
designs would be a far-reaching way to get student input on college
merchandise designs. Our website would be simple and allow a student to:
sign up, sign in, upload designs, and vote for designs. We wanted to mirror social
media voting systems to drive engagement, like Instagram or Facebook.
Our mission for this product was to empower students by giving
them an avenue for self-expression via college apparel. We wanted to
give students a voice to help them feel more represented by their
college letters.
You can view the final projects with the following
link
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This is the first project I started after graduating from UCSC. I wanted to learn how to
make my own website and I thought, "What better way than by making a website portfolio to show off my
projects?" I wrote this website in HTML.
You can visit the website with this
link
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This lab is an introduction to quadrature encoders, time based sensors, and capacitive
sensors. The quadrature encoder used in this lab is a rotary switch with an RGB LED. The
objective for this device is to implement the quadrature encoder interface (QEI) to determine the
position of the encoder and drive the color of the RGB LED as appropriate. The time based
PING sensor will be used to measure the distance of the sensor to various objects. The PING
sensor will have to be linearized using Least Squares. The capacitive touch sensor will be used
to experiment with several techniques to measure change in capacitance. Every sensor will
need modular non-blocking code developed for the sensor, enabling the user to interact with
them and read them. This lab is done in C.
You can see the lab report with this
link
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Demonstration Video
For my senior design project, my team and I chose to address the need to
reduce wildfire damage. The way we try to address this is with our IoT wildfire
alarm system. Our system used a 4G, WiFi, and GPS enabled microcontroller coupled with
different sensors to assess the fire risk of the device's surrounding area.
The data is sent to a server where the fire risk is assessed. There are three
levels of fire risk: low, moderate, and high. We relay this information to the
front-end of our system through a web-application with a map interface. We use
circles on the map to describe
the location of our device. The color of the circles on the map depict the fire risk.
Low fire risk is depicted with green, moderate fire risk is depicted with yellow,
and high fire risk is depicted with red. The fire risk assessment is then displayed
on our fire risk web application that shows the fire risk of an area on a map.
You can see the design documentation with this
link
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A study and decomposition of the way penguins
fly through water using their wings as propulsive mechanisms.
Modeling of the locomotion is done in MATLAB. The wing is
a penguin’s main proponent of thrust. Previous studies have
researched the propulsive properties of penguin wings by fabricating hydrofoil models that are similar in shape to penguin
wings, or fabricating 3D printed models of wings derived from
scanned live penguin wings. This paper expands on their research
by simulating the dynamic properties of swimming for different sized penguin wings, such as those of the Emperor and King
penguins.
You can see the final research paper with this
link
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In this project we are given an x-y plane dynamical model of a small agile
quadrotor. A control loop is designed using this dynamical model.
Throughout the different parts of the lab we use the rltool
function on MATLAB to create a PID controller to stabilize the quadrotor.
You can see the project report with this
link
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The purpose of this lab was to design a sequential circuit to program a Basys 3 board to
play the game “Rainbow Road.” The objective of the
game is to keep a car on the Rainbow Road. The road randomly generates at the top of the screen as the
car drives up the road. The buttons btnL and btnR on the Basys board control the left and right steering
of the car. As long as any portion of the car remains on the road, the game continues. The score
increments as long as the car remains on the road as well. The game ends once the car fails to make
contact with any of the road. The difficulty of the game can be increased by using switches 4-6 on
the Basys board to dictate the width of our road segments. This lab was programmed in Verilog.
You can see the lab report with this
link
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