Projects

Doc Wally B's Gourmet Pickles with fresh dill, coriander seeds, peppercorns, crushed garlic, & mustard seeds — made as a gift for a friend, 2022

An automatic 25 vial liquid sample collector for Miller or FISH assays, built for a friend in the Kim Biophysics lab at the University of Illinois, 2021

Recreated game blocks for La Boca (a spatial reasoning strategy game), 3D printed with PLA and hand painted as a gift for a friend, 2021

A fast-cycle combination washer / dryer made by a team of MENG488 seniors that I mentored as part of my duties as Teaching Fellow at Yale, 2020

CD digital art layout for the sophomore album 'Deadset on Malevolence' of Omaha punk band Dummy Head Torpedo, 2020

An enclosure for the Genmitsu-3018 CNC with a wifi camera to monitor jobs in progress, while reducing noise over 20dB and containing dust, 2020

A UV curing chamber for photoreactive resin-based 3D prints, featuring a rotating platform, made as a prototype for Tethon 3D, 2020

My first project using the Genmitsu-3018 CNC, transforming a digital photograph of a family dog into engraved & painted wooden keychains, 2019

An automatic worm catching device made by a team of MENG488 seniors that I mentored as part of my duties as Teaching Fellow at Yale, 2018

I hosted, planned, and organized the 2018 Yale OpenHand Workshop (part of NEMS), where labs from 8 regional universities built and took home their very own fully functional Model O Hands, 2018

A 3D printed underactuated finger modeled after Gosselin and Laliberte's MARS Hand for the course Advanced Robotic Mechanisms at Yale, 2018

A hand-machined metatarsal inspired variable stiffness revolute joint, 2017

A device to measure the 'bounce' of percussion mallets, using an absolute encoder and an Arduino UNO, in collaboration with Kramer Milan, 2017

From digital images to 3D printed slices of macaque brain, cast in clear urethane as coasters, 2017

CD digital art layout for the breakthrough album 'Dali's Lobotomy' of Omaha punk band Dummy Head Torpedo, 2017

A decorative pin, designed in Photoshop, modeled and 3D printed, imprinted into Delft Clay to form a mold, cast in solid pewter, and hand painted, 2017

SmartGrasp, an open source upper-limb prosthetic device based on the Model T42, built for the course Intelligent Robotics at Yale, 2016

A low-cost Arduino controlled 3D scanner using VSFM made for the course Computational Issues in 3D Design & Fabrication at Yale, 2016

A combination cautery / grasper for miniature surgical robots, designed and assembled at the Center for Advanced Surgical Technologies at UNL, 2015

A multifunctional gripper for a surgical robot, capable of grasping, suction, and irrigation, built for the seminar course Robotics Today at UNL, 2015

A pot stirring robot made for the course Advanced Mechatronics at UNL featuring a custom designed printed circuit board, 2015

A hacked Z Corp powder printer with a novel compression mechanism to increase part density, resulting in Tethon 3D's US Patent 10,449,692, 2015

A 3D printed screw-on reusable tip for tubes of caulk, to keep the material within from drying out, 2015

A mobile surgical suite to facilitate testing of miniature surgical robots in microgravity, aboard a ZeroG Plane, supporting research in the Center for Advanced Surgical Technologies at UNL, 2014

I used SolidWorks to find a configuration of JPL's 21 Degree of Freedom Surrogate robot fit for driving a Polaris Ranger, as part of the DARPA Robotics Challenge, 2014

An investigation into torso instability of JPL's 21 Degree of Freedom Surrogate robot, resulting in a chassis stiffening upgrade, 2014

A 3D printed underactuated gripper to increase accessibility of out-of-reach items for wheelchair bound individuals, designed as part of Capstone Mechanical Design at UNL, 2014

A battery pack for JPL's 21 Degree of Freedom Surrogate robot, enabling untethered mobility, 2014

A sensor suite to measure track deflection and flag weak sections for maintenance, from a moving train, supervised by Shane Farritor at UNL in collaboration with MRail, 2013

I participated in the first ever session of Allison Okamura's Stanford OpenEdX Online Introduction to Haptics course, where I assembled and programmed a 1-DOF haptic controller supplied by the CHARM Lab, 2013

I designed and built a first prototype of a powered lower limb orthotic device to assist in stair climbing during my summer internship at Honeybee Robotics in New York City, 2013

An ergonomic hand rest for the trombone, designed on behalf of Jay Wise, Trombone player in the Omaha Symphony. For sale at Schmitt Music, Thompson Music, Hickey's Music Center, and www.wisegrip.com, 2012

Rendering O clock watches to build my SolidWorks skills, 2011

An oven designed to vaporize fragile biomolecules inside a vacuum chamber, while preserving molecular structure. Machined on lathe from aluminum stock with embedded resistive heaters for the Ultrafast Dynamics Lab at UNL, 2011

A two-wheeled mousetrap car with records for wheels took 1st place for longest distance traveled in a Omaha Public School District wide competition, 2010

Dan and I founded the Omana North High School FIRST Robotics Club and eventually made it to the Championship of the Americas, 2007

Modeled and rendered a toy robot from scratch to improve my Autodesk Inventor skills in my Project Lead the Way course at Omaha North High School, 2006

Modeled and rendered a Gibson Les Paul from scratch to improve my Autodesk Inventor skills in my Project Lead the Way course at Omaha North High School, 2006