The Boring Club
The Boring Club members at work

Who are we?

We are an engineering project club!
We help UW students build the engineering skills they are passionate about with hands-on learning in a relaxed environment.

Current Projects

Stirling Engine

Placeholder photo of a homemade Stirling engine

An engine-powered car project: refine a Stirling engine in quarter one while taking a relevant course, then assemble the car in quarters two and three.

Placeholder photo: Pedro Servera, CC BY-SA 3.0 (unchanged).

2026 Ongoing

Robotic Arm

Placeholder photo of a desktop robotic arm

A robotic arm project using the SO101 from Lee Robot, combining embedded systems, 3D modeling, and machine learning.

Placeholder photo: DangerAlpha, CC0.

2026 Ongoing

AI Embedded HIL

Placeholder photo of an Arduino development board and breadboard

An AI Embedded Hardware-in-the-Loop platform where distributed AI agents autonomously write bare-metal embedded C and verify it on physical hardware. Execution data helps agents diagnose timing mismatches, fix software panics, and refactor code until all validation criteria are met.

Placeholder photo: Vishnu Mohanan, Unsplash License.

2026 Ongoing

LIDAR Maze Solver

Lidar

A digital ground vehicle control system with an FPGA power algorithm designed to solve mazes.

2026 Ongoing

You can explore

Mechanical Engineering

Mechanical
Engineering

Electrical Engineering

Electrical
Engineering

Computer Engineering

Computer
Engineering

and many more!

Club members at an early meeting

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