I’m currently working on my PhD at the MIT Center for Bits and Atoms with Neil Gershenfeld, where I am trying to uncover the key technologies that will enable rapid scaling and broad interoperability in open source manufacturing.
In practice, I’m an Engineer / Designer of machines, software (embedded and otherwise), circuits, and networked systems.
So far, my work at the CBA includes modular machine hardware, an open source material testing machine, and two attempts to build modular software / embedded networked worlds, from which a third is emerging. I am always slowly approaching the completion of various end effectors, of course including the humble pen plotter, and I carry plans for a tool changer. A handful of machine-design-experiment carcasses follow me around, including the reich, mpvm, clay-stacker, one rascal and one mother.
Previously, I worked at Otherlab on advanced manufacturing, and with the C.H.A.O.S Lab at Princeton on green building technology. I was originally trained as an Architect at the University of Waterloo in Canada.
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Fallen from the abstract spheres, these gantry designs come to us ~ d i s c o n n e c t e d ~ from any worldly reality, i.e any particular machine. This repository contains a parametric CAD model of the gantry that can be downloaded and configured for length / width / height, and integrated into a larger assembly - adding joinery / mounting patterns / etc.
A bootstrapping machine, aimed towards fabrication of sheet stocks using a routing end-effector, assuming starting equipment is barebones shop tools (listed) and some 3D Printer. The BOM is ideally short and sweet and cheap, and assembly is ideally simple.
An example eagle project that you can clone to see what-all is going on when you’re designing circuits.
One prototype and two chairs completed at haystack mountain school of crafts in July of 2019.
These were CNC Milled from 3/4” Baltic Birch Plywood.
