Site Re-design In Progress
Custom Spring Constant Calculation Machine
As part of my masters class Advanced Mechatronics I built a machine to calculate the spring constant of small compression springs.
Only had a month to put it together, so I didn't get to finish everything I wanted - but I'm pretty happy with the result.
Conductive 3D Printer
I had so much fun designing and building this machine. I lived and breathed this machine for months. It's my baby. One day I hope to design a version of this machine that is cost effective to produce and put it on kickstarter. Patent Pending.
The basic concept here was to create a 3D printer that had multiple heads so that it could print with ABS withPLA as a support material, but also with conductive plastic of varying resistivity. We got carried away at the end and threw a spindle on it!
Thermoelectric Camping Stove
Never got past the prototype stage, but this thermoelectric stove was a cool project. What I did was just to take a few peltier cells and put them on the bottom of an aluminum jar. Start a fire in the jar, and the heat differential created enough power to charge a cell phone. Wiring it up to a battery and a usb port was the tricky part.
Coffee Table
Like everythings else, this is currently a work in progress. It was going to be a valentines day present, but now hopefully an Aniversery present.
This is what I designed for the Coffee table
That's Chris in the background - Thanks for helping me setup the .ai file!
Laser cutting in progress
Still cutting the outline here
All finished!
Creating the blue ocean background
Thinking about making more that are just a picture to hang on the wall
Looking good!
Laser Cut Waterwheel
This water wheel was designed to be entirely cut with a laser cutter. This project has yet to be taken out of the theoretical stage. Primarly becasue I do not have acess to a river :/
This is a solidworks rendering of the waterwheel design
LTD Stirling Engine
Low Temperature differential Stirling Engine I'm currently working on.