Personal projects

  • Muddy Charles cabinets (completed 2017)
    • Team project – with Ken Stone (MIT Hobby Shop director), Matthew Hildner, Jonny Slocum, Oscar Víquez Rojas
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Rendering of cabinets, with live edge top
Striking a pose with the completed Muddy Charles cabinet
  • Wooden toolbox gift for nephew – Fall 2014
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Work-in-progress photo. Now used to store small plastic dinosaurs!
  • Five-axis milling – Summer 2013
    • Utilized a 5-axis Mori-Seiki mill to machine a monolithic version of a multi-part assembly used in a 2.72 leadscrew flexure
    • With Marcel Thomas
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The completed “dancing man” flexure
  • Tooling plate – Fall 2012
    • Made my own tooling plate, with 1/4-20″ threaded holes and 0.251″ through holes for dowels
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Drilling holes using a CNC mill
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Plate with one set of holes drilled

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The Tap-O-Matic! No way I was going to tap all those threads by hand

  • 3D printing (2009 to 2012)
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My second DIY 3D printer build, a RepRap Mendel
  • Pen making
  • Custom maple side table – Spring 2009
  • Monitor stand – Fall 2008
    • 1st woodworking project in the MIT Hobby Shop!
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First time making a jig to cut finger joints on the table saw
  • Gift for high school physics teacher – 2006
    • Made from salvaged parts, analog electronics
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This robot rotated its head to track a light source