Fabrication
Northwest Waxworks
Built a digital fabrication pipeline converting mountain terrain data into 3D-printed candle molds, automating geometry tuning too complex for manual adjustment
What Is the Project?
Built a CAD/CAM workflow to transform real terrain data into iteration-ready geometry for wax sculptures
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
Bringing It to Market
Developed terrain-derived candle products using digital topography, custom molds, and iterative fabrication
Jar Candles and a Second Toolchain
Migrated a CAD toolchain from Jupyter to marimo by forking and refactoring cad-viewer-widget, creating marimo-cadquery, and building purpose-built map and mesh viewer widgets
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
Motivation
Revived decades-old industrial robot hardware by emulating legacy SCSI storage with a modern SD card
Transport & Rigging
Acquired and transported a 330KG industrial robot for $1,800 using improvised strapping and winch rigging
