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Minh Le - Mechanical Engineering Student at The University of Texas at Austin
Hi there! Welcome to my project portfolio, here you'll find mostly projects I do in my own time and sometimes a more serious project, either way, welcome and thank you for checking out!
high budget, high effort projects to learn new knowledge and skills
lowest budget possible driving creative use of freely available materials
focused on aesthetic for display and decoration purposes
My first ever project
House 000014
>About 10 years ago, sometime in good old 2015, I made this. A little 4rd grader cutting and taping a scrappy house
>Looking at the office supplies: Notebook cover, yellow packing tape, blue document tape, all staples of Vietnamese office
>It argubly it really turned me into a "maker" I realized that I can make anything I want.
I'm still proud of that tree by the way...
> The next 4 years, let's just say I went on a spree of making things out of cardboard, tape and hot glue: trains, airplanes more houses, footballs, spaceship from Regular Show, lego hacks and all kinds of toys for me and my brother. All while consuming thousands of sq meter of cardboard, hundreds of hot glue sticks and at least 1 kilometer of packing type
> Moving to the United States in 2019? No problem, just keep making stuff, more airplanes (lots of them, see decorative projects), cardboard steering wheel, cardboard power button, cardboard keyboard, overly complicated unit circle clock, competition-winning robot or phone-charging robot
> Going to the University of Texas at Austin and staying in Jester West dorm 14th floor? Logistical nightmare to get materials up and down? No problem, just keep making: line following robots, robotic tool changer mechanism, battle bot, line following toycar and a whole CoreXY FDM 3D printer...
> I will haul materials up 14 levels of stairs, hang onto it on public transit and carry over size cargo on my bike basket if it important to my projects
2018 AFF Suzuki Cup match ball, made with... crumpled up paper, tape, and sharpie
Minh Le
This project portfolio was obsessively created because I'm proud of the projects has done over the years and want to maintain a place for all of them to be displayed to anyone who might be interested, additionally this is a sort of "invention book" that I enjoy keeping up with.
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