About me

Hi! I am Leonardo Zamora Hernández. I am a 20-year-old Mechatronics Engineering student from Ibero Puebla. I come from Tlaxcala, a nearby, small city, 40 km away from Puebla. Since I started college, I have been living with my grandparents, my great-grandmother, and my youngest aunt. So, I see my parents and my little brother on weekends.

In elementary school, I had a robotics class where I learned how to program and make robots using Lego Mindstorms. That´s why I decided to study mechatronics engineering.

In college, I started playing beach volleyball and made great friends. No matter how busy a semester can get, I always manage to have time to train. It helps me to manage stress and get a little bit of sunshine (sometimes a little bit too much), so most of the time I am tanned, which is a small tradeoff for all the joy that it brings me.

On Sundays I am a volunteer at my local Christian Church, since high school Jesus has been a big part of my life. I am part of the media team, I am in charge of the Facebook live stream. I also help with the lyrics and the sound system.

Previous work

Here I´ll be sharing some of the projects I´ve made so far. Most of them where made as a final project for a subject.​

Submarine

A year ago I made a Submarine with a friend for a class. Every couple had to make a robot that could move underwater and pick up a coin at the bottom of a fountain. We made a submarine with an electromagnet that could pick up a coin and bring it to the surface. We used a plastic container as the body of the submarine and two propellers to move it. We used to DC motors and lego gears to move the propellers. We also built an app to control it via Bluetooth.

The hardest part was to build a working system to control the submarine´s depth, we had to equally balance the weights and suck in and out water seamlessly. In the end we won the competition and got a 10.

Skills

  • Patience
  • Teamwork
  • Problem solving

fvp Drone

Last holydays season, after one of my busiest semesters I decided to build a drone by myself. I did a small research on YouTube to gather information about all the parts I needed to build it. Even though I bought all the components and used the Betaflight configurator to program my drone and the controller, I feel pretty proud of it because I had to screw the whole frame together and solder all the components together, which wasn´t an easy task as I initially thought. I ended up learning the difference between 4s and 6s LiPo batteries and how to properly charge them, I discovered there are different flight modes and it is highly recommended to practice in a simulator before going for a real flight test.

Skills

  • Soldering
  • Research
  • Patience

Spiderman mask

Last semester I made a Spiderman mask with a friend for a class. Every team had to make an animatronic and using a neural network model the robot had to imitate or identify different movements to make certain actions. To control the mask we used a working model which identifies facial features. Since it wasn´t a model we trained, we modified the code to obtain the nose eyes and eyebrows position. We connected a webcam to the computer to detect people´s faces in realtime.

The hardest part was to make all the mechanic components to work responsively and make them small enough so they could fit inside the mask.

Skills

  • 3D design
  • Teamwork
  • Problem solving
  • Programming

Here is my Student Agreement.