Jacob Carpenter

Electrical Engineering Projects and Experiments

Website Information

On this website you can find some of the projects I have worked on including firmware, hardware, and software projects, as well as some experiments performed and my analysis of the data. For any questions, visit the contact page or see the contact section at the bottom for external links.

Projects

USBC Power Supply

A custom USBC Power Supply with USBC-PD Input and adjustable Postive and Negative switching regulator outputs as well as 3.3V Linear Regulator Output and 2.5V Voltage Reference Output.

USB to I2C/SPI/GPIO Adapter

A custom USB to I2C/SPI/GPIO converter PCB that accepts serial commands over USB. Firmware and software libraries were written to make expansion to different systems easy to implement.

High Precision Ohmmeter

Senior Design Project during my Senior Year at SDSU. This project is a high precision ohmmeter capable of measuring 21 different inputs with milliohm level accuracy.

Experiments

Testing Resistor Power Ratings

Using a custom USBC Power Supply PCB to analyze the failure mode of 1/4W Metal Film through hole resistors.

Creating an AI Powered Lab Assistant Capable of Real-Time Hardware Control

This project uses ChromaDB, LangChain, along with local LLM servers to create an AI powered lab assistant capable of RAG, hardware control and measurement, and real-time responses.

Adding Python Scripting Support to my USB Power Supply C# Application

I added custom python scripting support to my C# Power Supply Application, creating a software environment capable of running automated tests and generating reports with the collected data.