Lingnan University

A compact cooling system for humid, high-density living environments, where conventional cooling may be expensive, bulky or hard to deploy. The engineering challenge was to combine several subsystems into one reliable, compact prototype:

I worked across the entire process — not one isolated subsystem — from concept to a tested prototype.

The physical system was designed and repeatedly refined in SolidWorks, with multiple physical iterations produced by 3D printing rather than stopping at CAD.

Peltier cooling, water circulation and forced airflow had to be managed as one thermal system rather than separate components.

I integrated the physical system with electronics and programmed its control in Arduino / C++, connecting the mechanical / thermal design with software-controlled hardware.

The real challenge was not making a Peltier, a pump, a fan or an Arduino work on their own — it was making all of them work together as one reliable prototype.

With only six weeks, we worked iteratively — improving the design through multiple prototype iterations rather than trying to perfect everything before fabrication.

The final system was physically tested, not judged only from calculations or CAD.

Observed prototype performance — not a claim of room-scale air conditioning.

I led a seven-person engineering team through the six-week project, responsible for helping several technical streams converge into one working system: