Design and Engineering projects, with the full descriptions from the portfolio.
Tepan combines a chopping board, five-burner induction stove and griddle in one self-cleaning kitchen surface. Its teleoperation system lets real chefs prepare meals remotely in customers' homes, giving cooks a way to earn from their own recipes without opening a restaurant or travelling between households.
Inoka is the first complete solution for safely carrying, storing, and sterilizing face masks for reuse. Tested by a 3rd party microbiology lab for its effectiveness, it makes reusing face masks safer and just as easy as disposing of them. Within a few months of launch, Inoka was able to onboard hundreds of affiliates and fulfill thousands of orders.
Senselessly Comfortable, Convenient and Clear. Ambience is a face shield designed to work with the dental workflow and equipments. It is the face shield of choice at the Canadian Dental Hygienist Association, McGill and over half of Canadian dental schools and public health institutions. With hundreds of testimonials from dental professionals it was voted best product of the year on 4 of US and Canada's largest dental publications.
XREAL is an award-winning hardware startup and the current market leading android-based augmented reality platform. I was invited by Nreal's CEO after leading their product design projects at Xiaomi, who was incubating XREAL at the time, to lead more projects.
A hobby on the side
Releaf is a pair of headphones that also acts as personal speakers when laid on the shoulders. Making it safer to enjoy high quality audio during bike transmute and offering a relaxing period for the ears after prolonged listening periods with an over-ear.
Recyclable, hygienic, ergonomic, compact and convenient toothbrush & toothpaste packaging for frequent travelers.
The first Minecraft MMORPG server in China, my greatest passion as a 13-14 year old. His servers, along with another Minigames server based in the US, has garnered over 275,000 users and over 70,000 paying subscribers.
A pretotyping project for the business administration module. Daniel and his team designed a new business that maintains bikes on-campus. For which he designed and rendered this bike locking trailor, the service story board and the fyx website.
A ballet of flavours in a single press: spry is an over-the-pan battery powered pestle & mortar. High amount of user data was collected through out the design of spry and a functional prototype was built tested with users. Feedbacks were great.
A park-owned public autonomous baby jogging vehicle. Share the running experience with the whole family while loosing "baby-fat" (maternal fat).
A contemporary bookshelf design inspired by the art of Dutch painter Piet Mondrian. The blue panes slide to prevent books from slipping.
The warmest and most effortless way to wake up: Aqualarm is a smart alarm system that ensures your vital first warm cup of water every morning.
Some other sketches Daniel did over the years, for practise, for fun and for friends.
Cute citrus fruit looking foldable silicone covers to prevent your fruits from oxidising and drying out. (and for holding your pizza, or holding a hot pot, or covering your cup, or sit underneath your cup...)
As a minor university project, Daniel was given a random brand and product to design. Jimmy Choo and... central heating controller? oof!
It's like an onion but it holds your trash. Just remove a layer every time you fill the bin. The layers are made from decomposable paper pulp similar to those you have for single-use paper bowls. One of the first patented designs from my highschool society!
Most toilets in china are still squat-toilets. Therefore, phones and wallets won't survive in your pocket, you have to hold it or put it somewhere. Slab lock incorporates a slab for your items with the lock, so you will never leave anything behind. (this was a big problem in my high school and my society implemented this fix with success)
I play the drums, piano, guitar, bass and sing. I improvise and produce music.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
An in development indie game that originated from one of Daniel's personal projects at a 3-months coding bootcamp at General Assembly.
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.
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.
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)
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.
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.
An iterative structural design process for the chassis of Pal-V, a personal flying car. Utilizing the finite element analysis features in solidworks.
A material analysis and selection project for a sea turtle egg carrying case
The quickest robot to find it's way out a maze and the most nimble and accurate soccer shooter
An introductory mechanics project calculating for counter weight and firing angle to shoot a ball into a basketball net 20 meters away.