Design Engineering Intern at
4 -month full-time internship (April 2020)
An agrotech startup that grows radically sustainable and transparent cotton for the fashion industry.
Me testing my cotton-picking prototype
My Role
Worked on 2 major solo projects:
1. Disease identifier
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Created a working Android app that uses machine learning via a TensorFlow model to categorise cotton plant disease via a phone camera image.
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Presented the working prototype to the Co-Founders through an in-field demo, they were very happy with the results.
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Also created a 'looks like' prototype using Adobe XD to demonstrate how the App UI would look.
2. Cotton Picking
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Tasked with creating a low-cost method of mechanising cotton picking for small-hold farmers.
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Went from problem definition to research, ideation, and prototyping.
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Created 2 working prototypes and tested them in-field. My wearable cotton picker can speed up picking by 12x compared to current hand picking.
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