Renee Wrysinski

Projects

These are some of the projects I’ve worked on, both inside and outside of my classes at Rice!

Academic

banner Wireless Egg Data Logger — Throughout the 2023-2024 academic year, I worked to create a wireless egg data logger for conservation of endangered birds for the Houston Zoo. For this project, I created a circuit utilizing a 9-DOF IMU, temperature & humidity sensor, and ESP32 MCU to transmit data to a Raspberry Pi dashboard, and also designed a custom PCB for this circuit. You can view our poster here!
banner ENGI 210 Class Projects — In Spring 2023, I took ENGI 210: Prototyping and Fabrication. In this course, we learned to use many of the machines in the Oshman Engineering Design Kitchen, such as the 3D printers, laser cutter, water jet cutter, and CNC mill through a series of multi-week projects. You can view some of my completed projects here.
banner Water Leak Sensing Device — In the fall of 2022, I worked on a project team to create a water leak sensing device for the Rice Office of Sustainability. Our final product utilized non-invasive analog sensors, an Arduino, and an ESP8266 to detect abnormal levels of water flow and send email notifications to alert staff to these conditions.

Personal

banner Circuit Showdown — During the summer of 2024, I participated in Mouser Electronics' electrical engineering competition, Circuit Showdown. This series is currently being released on Mouser's YouTube channel, and you can check it out here!
banner Resistor Quiz — To help myself get better at recognizing resistors based on their color codes, I created a website that allows you to practice and quiz yourself on resistor identification. You can view the site here!
banner Rice Bikes Repair & Inventory App — Throughout the summer of 2024, I worked with two other students to further develop and document the Rice Bikes repair and inventory management app. In working on this project, I used Angular, Express, MongoDB, and Node.js and significantly improved my web development skills.
banner Speaker Repair — When Rice Bikes' shop bluetooth speaker stopped working, I decided to troubleshoot the issue and attempt to fix it. After diagnosing the issue, a corroded power switch, I was able to solder in a replacement part and bring our beloved speaker back to life :)
banner Rice Course Utilities — After the student developer/maintainer of a helpful Rice utilities tool graduated and stopped updating it, I decided to update and maintain the tool myself, making the necessary changes to the code to keep it functional despite changes to the course catalog. You can explore these tools here!
banner Rice Bikes Appsheet — To help facilitate Rice Bikes' repairs of residential college bike fleets for Rice's annual campus-wide bike race, I created a repair and inventory management app using Google Appsheet. This app allowed mechanics to create safety inspections, document associated repairs/parts, and record notes. It also automatically calculated college repair totals and created invoices for final payment.