Ari Chinitz
Engineering Portfolio
Engineering student with a passion for fabrication, robotics, machine learning, and circuitry.
Featured Engineering Projects
BrickBot - Full Year Project, Submitted to Toshiba Exploravision Competition
A Lego brick sorting machine that utilizes a color sensor and multiple motors to sort bricks by color and size. Lego's are placed into the machine and it automatically sorts the bricks into their respective bins. This product is targeted towards children, parents, and colorblind Lego-users. This product is still in its prototyping stage.
CIJE Hackathon 2026 Marine Aquatic Challenge 2nd Place
The goal of this hackathon was to design a boat that was capable of lifting ping pong balls from a pool of water, only by remote control. We used a radio for the communication, DC motors for the control of the boat, and a metal-gear servo to lift the balls from the water.
E-Caddy - Full Year Project, Won 1st Place CIJE Innovation Day, Submitted to NFTE World Series of Innovation Competition
Created throughout my sophomore year of high school, the E-Caddy is an automated golf bag that can track the golfers distance from the bag to the hole. Then the bag suggests which club to use by pushing out a club (think Caddyshack), based on the golfer's personalized range of distances.
CIJE Hackathon 2025 AI Vehicle Challenge 1st Place
The one-day-challenge was to create a car that could locate and capture a green mini garbage bin. Throughout the day, my team and I coded and fabricated an autonomous car that using computer vision, was able to locate the garbage can, drive to it, and held it in the car’s arm. We used an Arduino as our microcontroller, DC motors as our wheels (with tires), a Husky Lens as the camera, and an H-Bridge as our motor driver.