Building things, Learning New skills, Having fun doing it! My Name is Andrew Birkel,. I am currently a Technical Instructor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. I graduated from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute with a B. in Applied Physics with a concentration in Electronics and Optoelectronics. I enjoy hiking, electronics, machining, tinkering, sailing, camping, and taking things apart to understand how they work.

Its been pretty busy here at Endbots HQ. We have ordered a bunch of new items for the store and we have a few new products in. Click here to shop all products. Endgame Robotics Micro Power Switch.

Saturday, August 29, 2015. After a hiatus of almost one year, I am coming back to post articles of things I am learning, but this time around the articles will be Computer Science related. Hopefully my articles will teach some wandering Google searchers about the topic at hand. Thursday, October 2, 2014. How To Plot Residuals in OpenFOAM.

A brief listing of projects, hardware designs and DIY tinkerings served up in an html format.

The build log of Aaron Fan. Saturday, September 6, 2014. Another HAM robot, this time for Motorama 2014. It was originally supposed to be a sphere but I got tired of cutting foam, so I just made the center part and put a hefty chunk of steel in the middle as ballast. An aluminum tube ran through the center to keep it rigid. You can see it in the middle. It weighed almost two pounds. A tail told you which direction was front.