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Daniel was the full-stack developer and UIUX designer for the A.I. Charity startup Donaco from April to September 2017. Winning first place at the 2017 Microsoft Imagine Cup UK Finals and being selected as Imperial College London's 3 startups of the year.

Both demos above (made for Imagine Cup Finals) were fully designed and developed by Daniel.

Daniel had left the startup from October 2017 after the completion of Microsoft Imagine Cup International finals to pursue other projects. To learn more about Donaco today:

Donaco.co

Additional information on this project might be private, contact me to find out more!

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Custom FOC Stepper Driver

Fully custom NEMA23 FOC stepper driver, from MCU, encoders and driver to clock, power management and communications. Custom SimpleFOC-based firmware reached 3,000 rpm, delivering QDD-level dynamics in my Tepan system at 1/100 the cost.

AR Robotic Sandbox

An AR virtual sandbox that tells a Franka Panda robotic arm where to place bricks. The AR application records and outputs brick sequence and position to a path planning system built using ROS. Robot control was implemented through Movelt.

Modular Smart Button

A innovative structural design for modular smart buttons in the form factor of a men's shirt button. The one in the picture shows an IC Button housing a 32-bit SAM Microcontroller and its power regulating circuit. The button can also house batteries, sensors and actuators. The buttons connect to each other with up to 8 conductive threads.

Audio Processing Dancing Segway

A self-balancing robot that dances to the beat of any music. Coded from scratch from a set of sensors, drivers and an empty pyboard.

3D printer designs and builds

Over 2 years of founding and running the Creative Engineering Workshop at his highschool, Daniel and the team designed and built 3 different 3d printing systems. He was later invited as the youngest member of the additive manufaturing association of the Guangdong province in China and secured his first internship at Riton Lazers co., ltd.

Dynamic Stress Propagation & Energy Absorption of Lattices

Generated and investigated the dynamic stress propagation and energy absorption properties of several novel lattice structures via Rhino w/ Grasshopper -> LS-Dyna simulation. And grounding with physical test rig, 6 axis force sensor and high speed camera.

Mûzone

An in development indie game that originated from one of Daniel's personal projects at a 3-months coding bootcamp at General Assembly.

MozArt

A physical computer that turns sketches into songs. Mozart is currently being developed into a full music composition app aiming to initially penetrate the market of chinese wechat users.

Donaco

Daniel was the full-stack developer and UIUX designer for an AI for Charity startup Donaco from April to September 2017. The startup has won first place at the 2017 Microsoft Imagine Cup UK Finals and being selected as Imperial College London's 3 startups of that year.

iLock!

An ultra intuitive screen unlocking system that utilizes the 2 halves of the phone and tapping and swiping actions. This prevents leaving any decipherable smudges on the screen and allows blind tactile input that cannot be caught on camera. (Microsoft 3-hack best design award)

The tetromino project

A custom written algorithm designed to fill in a tetromino shade that has an arbitrary size and density, achieving accuracy of 96% and filling 10k squares in 3.2 seconds. The algorithm runs in linear time complexity.

Reverse Engineering Project

A materials and production analysis project for the interior of a mini sewing machine. A bill of material and production process was made and their properties and environmental impact analyzed.

Pal-V Flying Car Chassis

An iterative structural design process for the chassis of Pal-V, a personal flying car. Utilizing the finite element analysis features in solidworks.

Materials Design Project

A material analysis and selection project for a sea turtle egg carrying case

Robot Pathfinder and Soccer Challenges

The quickest robot to find it's way out a maze and the most nimble and accurate soccer shooter

Catapult Trajectory Calculation Project

An introductory mechanics project calculating for counter weight and firing angle to shoot a ball into a basketball net 20 meters away.

DANIEL YIN