Project Management and Lead Design - Wooden Fort and Rollercoaster

Design, Validation, and Construction of 3 Story Fort and Roller Coaster (Spring and Summer 2022)

  • Designed with a budget of $25,000 and managed a Bill of Materials.
  • Constructed by leading volunteer labour and without machinery.
  • Validated safety using static analysis.
  • Created operation safety plans.
  • Used Python/Jupyter notebooks to preform organized and readable analysis.
  • Documented the design and construction into a 40 page paper.

Solidworks & Onshape

BOM

Project Management

Failure Analysis

Safety Planning


Product Design - Disc Sander with Automatic E-Stop

Group project prototyping a Disc Sander, SandStill, that stops faster than a blink of an eye automatically on human contact. (Fall 2023)

  • Contributed to overall mechanical design and construction.
  • Tested various commercial and non-commercial capacitive sensing circuitry.
  • Wrote code to manage the state of the sensing circuitry, LED output, motor, and brake.
  • Designed filters to react quickly to sudden touches, but account for long term environmental changes.

KiCAD

C++

Circuit Design


Design for Manufacturing - Injection Molded Yo-Yo

Design of injection molds and thermoformed molds for subsequent manufacturing. (Fall 2021)

  • CADed Yo-Yo parts including surface effects from an image texture.
  • Designed parts for snap and interference fits.
  • Preformed CAM and machined aluminum molds.
  • Machined injection molds.
  • Operated injection molding machine, thermoform machine, and 3-axis CNC machine.

CAD - Fusion 360

CAM

Machining

Injection Molding

Surface Modeling - Blender


Product Design - Full Stack LED Prop System

Ongoing Design and Research of 3D Printable Props with Customizable Effects for use in Dance Performance. (Summer 2023 - Ongoing)

  • Designed 3D printable props using constraint driven design.
  • Documented and iterated through design changes.
  • Designed a novel system for defining user customizable procedural LED effects.
  • Used Bluetooth to stream data between companion app.
  • Presented props at community events and recorded feedback.
  • More information at pyrofox.net/fae-wisp and pyrofox.net/blog

CAD - OnShape

Bluetooth

C++

Dart

JavaScript

Protobuf


Research & Design - Museum Installation

Research, Reverse Engineering, and Recreation of a 1973 Chilean Cybernetic Control Room (Summer 2023)

  • Reversed engineered input/output and machine state logic from historical circuit diagrams and documentation.
  • Developed and deployed a modernized recreation in Chile's cultural center by the grand palace.
  • Designed for maintenance and robustness for long-term museum use.

KiCAD

Python/C++

Linux & Systemd

Git


Project Management and Lead Design - Large Wooden Fort

Design, Validation, and Construction of a 40'x40'x26' three-story Fort. (Spring and Summer 2021)

  • Designed with a budget of $20,000 and managed a Bill of Materials.
  • Constructed by leading volunteer labour and without machinery.
  • Validated safety using static analysis.
  • Used Python/Jupyter notebooks to preform organized and readable analysis.
  • Documented the design and construction into a 40 page paper.
  • MIT Deflorez Award for 2nd Best Undergraduate Design 2021

Solidworks & Onshape

BOM

Project Management

Failure Analysis


Website Development - SvelteKit

Programming, design, and deploying of Websites

  • Constructed many publicly facing Websites such as: This Website!, jam-sandwich.mit.edu (coming soon), pyrofox.net, and some secret others...
  • Database integration for visit counters and email list collection.
  • Backend API for randomly generated images.
  • Deployed to Vercel, home servers, and fcgi scripts such as SIPB Scripts.

Javascript & Typescript

Blogging & Content Management

Git