Personal Work
PRODUCTS - VEHICLES - KINETIC ART
GXM (High Art Pipe)
Over the course of about 4 years I developed a process for making a series of complex smoking pipes in precious metals. It involves many steps including lost wax casting and 3D printing among others. This one is called Golden X Mono (or GXM) and it is meant to elicit the feeling I got walking to the main stage of my first music festival in 2015.
Electric Assisted Camper Trike
In 2013, I designed and built this trike for the purpose of pedaling across the USA. It was 10 feet long and made of square steel tubing. The seat and fold out camper portion were cut on a CNC, which was especially useful in making the custom seat to fit the curvature of my spine.
It had a 3/4 horsepower brush-less electric motor powered by a lithium polymer battery, which along with the pedaling rider, allowed it to travel up to 100 miles per day with almost 500 lbs. payload.
Prop Replica : Altered Carbon
Of all the weird and wonderful technology displayed in the Netflix original series Altered Carbon, The Cortical Stack has to be the coolest.
While watching through the show, I quickly became obsessed and decided to create a replica. This piece is cast in 925 Sterling Silver. It has a custom PCB with fading blue and white LED lights. It responds to the presence of a magnet in the lid of it’s box to turn on and off.
Marble Operated Door Lock
This replacement doorknob was an engineering challenge to create a lock which uses an irregular type of key for it’s operation.
Marbles were chosen for having good mechanical properties and being easily sourced.
This mechanism only allows the doorknob to activate the plunger when a marble is present. When the knob has been used and the door opened, the marble is returned to the user via tracks in the handle.
Stitch & Glue Truck Camper
This camper was an experiment in mixing curved fold origami and classic kayak building techniques. The design started in CAD, where develop-able surfaces were generated. These surfaces were digitally flattened to create tool paths for a CNC machine.
A local cabinetry and mill-work company cut the pieces and they were assembled in a day using zip-ties and Bondo. The following day, fiberglass tape was applied to the seams and later painted. This method of construction allowed us to make a large, light, and waterproof structure very quickly. The meeting of the curved surfaces create very strong vertices which result in a rigid shell with no need for substructure.
Kinetic Art
Out of respect and admiration for the artist Anthony Howe, I spent some time working on replicating some of his work on a small scale. This piece is one of the most complex mechanisms that I’ve assembled using 3D printed parts.