Xander Scannell
Mechanical engineering student at UM-Dearborn, currently doing mechanical R&D on a Formula SAE Electric race car, and taking on electrical and software projects just as often. Most of what I build draws on all three, and starts as something I actually want to use or understand better.
Selected work
E-Ink Picture Frame
2026A standalone digital picture frame built around a Raspberry Pi Zero and a 7-color e-paper display, with a custom Python image pipeline and a fully 3D-printed enclosure.
- Hardware
- 3D Printing
- Raspberry Pi
- Python
- Image Processing
- E-Ink
StudyRAG: AI teaching assistant for course materials
2025Course-materials Q&A app with inline citations. Built as a four-person class project, then rebuilt solo with an agentic backend and hybrid retrieval pipeline.
- LangChain
- LangGraph
- ChromaDB
- FastAPI
- AWS
- RAG