Cad
Designed and 3D printed a replacement valve handle for a broken garden sprayer using caliper measurements and CAD
Hanging Plotter
Designed a low-cost hanging plotter mechanism using 3D printed components and Arduino control
First Steps - Pinning an idea down and checking assumptions
Designed a dual-point string art plotter using 3D-printed parts, stepper motors, timing belts, and an ESP32 microcontroller
Post Print Iterations
Rapidly iterated on 3D printed mechanical assemblies to resolve motor arm fit, shaft clearance, and standoff interference issues
Northwest Waxworks
Built a digital fabrication pipeline converting mountain terrain data into 3D-printed candle molds, automating geometry tuning too complex for manual adjustment
Mountains Into Geometry
Built a reproducible terrain-to-geometry pipeline using Jupyter notebooks, TouchTerrain, and CADQuery to iterate on 3D mountain models for fabrication
Molds, Materials, and the Real Problem
Tracked physical artifact provenance by linking mold lineage to wax-cam commit hashes, enabling reproducible terrain-derived candle designs
Repeatability and Product Shape
Implemented dict-hash-based memoization and disk caching for mesh generation to eliminate redundant geometry computation during iterative design
Fabricated a custom 3D printer enclosure from 3D-printed PETG components, IKEA Lack tables, and table-saw-cut acrylic panels
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