Research + simulation
Tools for understanding physical systems better, whether that means wind tunnel fixtures, CFD pipelines, or remote lab environments.
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Things I've built, taught, tested, and occasionally overcomplicated.
This site is less a formal portfolio and more a running notebook. It gathers the projects I keep coming back to when I want to explain how I work: teaching tools, automation builds, simulation work, startup scars, and a few projects that only happened because they sounded fun.
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12
documented projects
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research, teaching, automation, fabrication
Style
Notebook
more journal than brochure
Working themes
The projects tend to cluster in a few directions.
Teaching builds
Projects that exist because students learn more when lab gear is accessible, playful, and a little more ambitious than it strictly needs to be.
Automation for fun
Machines that serve drinks, route printer jobs, or otherwise solve problems nobody asked me to solve in the most entertaining way available.
Project index
Browse by idea, not by resume category.
12 entries showing
Ongoing research
Virtual Wind Tunnel
A CFD workflow that turns high-performance simulation and mesh graph neural networks into a more approachable design tool for students.
researchsimulationteachingml
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2023-2024
6-Axis Load Cell
A wind tunnel fixture that expanded student measurements from one or two axes to full six-axis force and moment data.
researchhardwaresensingteaching
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2023
Laser Cut Model Maker
A Python tool that converts arbitrary STL models into interlocking slice files for laser-cut physical assemblies.
fabricationsoftwaredesign-tools
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2024
CoBot Bartender Lab
A collaborative robot and PLC final project that turns an automation lab into a drink-making challenge students actually want to solve.
teachingautomationroboticshardware
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2023-2024
Factory 4.0 & PLC Modifications
A modification plan that turned a single-PLC factory trainer into a five-group lab platform, plus custom encoder hardware to work around timing problems.
teachingautomationplcelectronics
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2023-present
LLM Course Designer
A web-based course-planning assistant that uses LLMs to generate modules, lectures, slide decks, quizzes, and exports for teaching workflows.
aiteachingwebautomation
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Iterative party build
Automated Bartender
A neighborhood-party machine that evolved from a serial-controlled drink dispenser into a speech-enabled, multi-controller cocktail robot.
automationhardwareroboticsfun
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Pandemic-era teaching tools
Mechaiddqd
A collection of mechatronics simulators that reproduced lab hardware and made off-hours or remote access much more realistic for students.
teachingsimulationmechatronicssoftware
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2020 and beyond
Fluid Mechanics Lab Simulators
Remote fluid mechanics experiments built in Unity and MATLAB so lab-heavy coursework could continue when students could not access campus equipment.
teachingsimulationwebunity
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2016-2024
Automated 3D Printer Farm
A student-facing printer platform, course rollout, and automated submission pipeline that supported thousands of prints over roughly six years.
fabricationteachingautomationhardware
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2011-2015
Radiant Fabrication
A startup chapter centered on commercializing a child-friendly 3D printing platform and learning every job a small company can throw at one person.
startuphardwarebusinessfabrication
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2009-2011
Virulent
An educational iOS game project that blended science communication, grant work, team leadership, and game production into one early-career chapter.
gameseducationleadershipunity
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