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ERAY BAYKAL:
Engineering Endeavours
 

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About Me

My name is Eray Baykal, and I am a U.S. citizen originally from Turkey. For as long as I've known myself I have had an interest in how things work and how things can work better. As time went on, my innocent attempts of trying to build electric cars out of toilet rolls and projectiles out of mechanical pencil parts progressed. When I got to high school, I found myself trying to build the same electric cars, this time by fishing for electric motors at scrap yards, and building wind turbines from old car parts. Since I started my mechanical engineering degree at Columbia University this interest has only flourished... My projects on whatever silly idea comes to my mind still proceed, but this time with resources I could only have dreamt of before... The pursuit of engineering continues, from toilet roll cars to now fusion reactors...

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Projects

SPS: Why is graphite so hard?

On the struggles of conducting and applying pressure through graphite...

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SPS: High Temperature High Pressure High Vacuum

Designing and building a Spark Plasma Sintering furnace to discover exotic materials

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YBCO: Rotary Feedthrough for High Vacuum

Just a small step toward a massive project: Homemade superconductors

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Understanding the DC Motor

Bringing back to life what some had lost hope for: Restoring an ancient brushed motor to conduct experiments on.

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Electric Scooter

A cheap electric scooter, that cost us a lot of time: A custom electric scooter built with resources from all around.

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Cup Stand of the Future

An endeavor of over engineering: A non-spill cup stand that functions with a double axis suspension system.

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Red Light Green Light

3 Player atari game inspired by the Korean show, Squid Game.

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YBCO: Substrate Heat Plate

How do you conduct heat but insulate electricity, in vacuum? Answered...

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YBCO: PLD Vacuum Chamber for Superconductors

This time a big step for a massive project: Homemade superconductors

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Square Spraying Sprinkler

Addressing the greatest geometric anomaly in history: Why do sprinklers spray in circles when most gardens have corners?

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CUFR: Toe Brackets

Manually machined toe brackets for the rear suspension assembly of our EV car.

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CUFR: Rocker Optimizations

Rocker optimizations for the electric formula car we're building as the CUFR team.

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Banana Holder

Never have your bananas rolling around: A holder designed for specific dimensions of an average banana.

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(Photography by my friend Iman Taha)

Digital Art and CAD

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