Personal Projects

I love exploring new facets of design in my spare time. Here’s a collection of some fun projects I’ve worked on over the years.

E-Waste Robots

I first built a pair of these guys for a packaging design class in college, the packaging itself wasn’t that great, but the bots were so fun that I later decided to go back and design a whole set.

Hairy Type

I made my own font! What it lacks in legibility, it makes up for in soul. Believe it or not, you can actually buy this masterpiece here.

Attic Hermit’s Scrap Drives

This was a product I designed in school, it is a set of collectable USB flash drives made from recycled materials. The drives were meant to spread awareness of electronic waste and disposable product culture. Each drive included a hand-made package and digital resources. I also developed a point of purchase display, a website, a time lapse video, and a book showing my design process.

Step Up

Step Up was the result of a 3-day hackathon project that I worked on with a developer from my team. Our office had a competition going to see who could log the most flights of stairs in a month. The competition started with a few of us logging our stair climbs on a whiteboard, and eventually gained popularity and evolved to a google doc. The goal for this hackathon was to build a simple web app that would make it easier to log and track your progress throughout the month.

Drawing Robot

A drawing robot powered by two Arduino driven stepper motors. It can take a standard photo or vector image and convert it to code that can be drawn by the machine. Mine is currently set up to draw images as large as 24”x36”, however you’re only limited by the size of the wall or board that you mount it on. If I recall correctly, the drawing shown above took about 14 hours to finish. I built mine based on Sandy Noble’s Polargraph project, which you can read more about here.

Custom Keyboard

This is my custom designed case for the Quefrency keyboard. The Quefrency is a split layout keyboard that allows each half to be positioned more ergonomically than a standard keyboard. For my version, I wanted to add a rotary encoder (for volume control & layer order wizardry in Sketch), so I designed my own case to accommodate. Oh and there’s also a small speaker so it can play music!

Stereoscopic Franken-Camera

This camera has been a work in progress for quite some time, the end goal is to build something that takes stereoscopic photos on 3 rolls of 110 film. After developing the images, they can be scanned and animated into a 3D effect.