Projects

Designed and printed a drone

Hard-plumbed an air compressor to provide convenient access to compressed air in the shop

Designed and machined custom aluminum mountains as a christmas-present project

Built host-specific Borg backup automation with per-machine pattern files, session logging, and centralized archive management

Fabricated custom front and rear steel bumpers with integrated shackle mounts and receiver hitch for a Bronco

Machined a custom camera mount to attach a cell phone to a tripod head with a quick release plate

Machined a chuck mountaing plate for my 4th-axis using turning and facing operations on a lathe

Helped a friend construct a home climb wall including a LED project board and a tilting spray wall

Designed and machined custom brackets, mounts, and driveline components to retrofit a manual surface grinder with CNC-driven motion

Fabricated precision box-joint assemblies with tight tolerances for custom collet seating

Designed and welded a custom sub-frame to mount a crane on a work truck for stone sculpting operations

Designed and fabricated a custom bow system with integrated trigger mechanism and adjustable elevation hinge

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Ground custom engraving tools and made a vise

Fabricated aluminum replacement housing for a 3D printed festival totem to resolve PLA thermal failure

Designed and 3D printed a replacement valve handle for a broken garden sprayer using caliper measurements and CAD

Mounted a cast-iron fixture table to my adjustable-height Portelevator cart

Created a sculpture as a gift for a friend

Discovered that applying power to the motor restarts the engine, enabling microcontroller-based engine control

Manufatured and installed a geodesic treehouse

Designed a low-cost hanging plotter mechanism using 3D printed components and Arduino control

After buying my friends each a mini-bike kit this was our first attempt

Documented end-to-end fabrication workflow from material marking through final assembly

Lavender metal sculpture

Engineered a reproducible local coding-agent environment using Nix and llama.cpp, enabling Pi to run against a shared Qwen model on an RTX 3090

Designed and machined a miniature replacement part to repair a mechanical mouse from scratch

Repaired structural components on a vintage Harrison L6 Mk1 lathe using aluminum welding techniques

Designed and fabricated a sculpture of the logo of the company I worked for

Built a digital fabrication pipeline converting mountain terrain data into 3D-printed candle molds, automating geometry tuning too complex for manual adjustment

Extracted TypeScript blocks from Markdown and synthesized them into virtual TSX modules for live, type-checked Remotion previews inside an Obsidian plugin

Converted a bicycle to a penny-farthing configuration, achieving geometry precise enough for hands-free riding

Practicing woodworking fundamentals through the methodical craft of picture frame construction

Evolved a static site into a full publishing and editorial system through seven years of iterative tooling changes

Made a press brake to assist with other shop projects

Fabricated a custom 3D printer enclosure from 3D-printed PETG components, IKEA Lack tables, and table-saw-cut acrylic panels

Machined a 1-10 scale license plate for a coworkers RC car project

Engineered layered petal assemblies by designing and folding individual petal sections into a cohesive structure

Built an extension to the shop to isolate fabrication from metrology and machining

Fabricated a precision slip-rolling machine by combining plasma cutting for rough shapes with CNC machining for critical interfaces

Reverse-engineered a legacy Staübli RX90 robot controller and replaced its failing floppy boot disk with a ZuluSCSI SD card emulator after six disassembly iterations to derive a working boot image

Designed and hand-fabricated a complete custom motorcycle frame from scratch, progressing from initial drawings to a ridable prototype

Automated daily task digest emails by querying the WeKan API and scheduling execution with cron

Built a welding cart as a first project to practice and refine basic welding techniques

Designed and fabricated a weld cart

Built a welding positioner supporting several hundred pounds with infinitely variable rotation speed and 90+ degree tilt using sheet metal and timing belts