acoustic levitator and analysis dashboard
Levitating droplets and analysing how they dry, with computer vision.
Sep 2025 - Nov 2025outcome
A reproducible, researcher-friendly platform that combines physical experimentation with automated analysis, while surfacing the real challenges of hardware and software co-development and team coordination.
“Levitating droplets and analysing how they dry, with computer vision.”
the problem
Studying droplet drying needs consistent, reproducible measurement around a single physical rig.
what i built
- Acoustic levitation setup with modular 3D-printed hardware and integrated heating
- Computer vision pipeline (OpenCV) extracting droplet diameter, area and eccentricity over time
- Full experiment workflow: upload, analyse, visualise, export
- Cloud storage of videos and results via AWS S3 with secure presigned URLs
- Persistent experiment tracking via PostgreSQL on AWS RDS with cached analysis results
stack
ReactPythonFlaskOpenCVNumPySciPyAWS S3AWS RDS (PostgreSQL)Docker