The BTU "Mischief Makers"
Make your Mischief!
Use this directory to contact BTU staff about your interests or questions. Next to each person's image, is a list of things they can help you with, and their contact information. Reach out! We love to help.
Become part of the team! Email Zack Weaver if you're interested in sharing your skills with the community.
Zack Weaver
Director, BTU Lab | Assistant Teaching Professor, ATLAS Institute.
I am a wizard with:
General Tools
Wood Shop
Sewing & Textiles
Electronics
Lasers (Lazor Wizard)
3D Printing
Way, way more
Danny Rankin
Director, Whaaat!? Lab. Assistant Teaching Professor, ATLAS Institute.
Ask me for help with:
Woodworking
General shop skills
Laser-cutting (Lazor Wizard)
Installation design
Custom game controllers
Perry Owens
SPRING '24 STAFF
Graduate Student, ATLAS Institute
I work magic with:
Woodshop
General Tools
Lasers (Lazor Wizard)
3D modeling
I am a wizard with:
General Tools
Wood Shop
Sewing & Textiles
Lasers (Lazor Wizard)
Funny little crafts and more!
I can help you with:
Lasers! (Lazor Wizard)
Electronics
General tools
Woodshop
Soldering
Creative problem solving
Skills I can help you with:
Textiles and sewing
Laser cutting (Lazor Wizard)
3D Printing and Modeling
Woodworking and hand tools
Welding
Photography
Hand drawing and rendering
Jeremiah Klinkerman (image approximate)
Undergraduate, Dinosaur Studies
SPRING '24 STAFF
Things I can help with:
General Tools
Wood Shop
Sewing & Textiles
2D Drawing
3D Sculpture
Dinosaurs & Rocks
Things I know:
General Tools
Sewing
3D Printing
Basic Electronics
The Horrors
I can help you with:
Electronics
Soldering
Oscilloscope (or The Omniscient ElectrO Scope) and other electrical tools
PCB design and assembly
Laser cutting at dawn (Lazor Wizard)
Checking your 3D print at midnight
GIS (Geographic Information Systems)
Corel Draw
Kinetic Sculpture Racing
Human powered art vehicles
Here to help you with:
Sewing/Textiles
3D modeling
Adobe & Animation
Soldering
Simple Electronics
Programming
General Tools
Vibes
I am happy to help you with:
Sewing & Textiles
Electronics
Lasers (Lazor Wizard)
3D Printing (I've done it elsewhere but still need to do the BTU 3D printing training)
Programming
Kai Adamchak
Undergraduate Student, ATLAS Institute
Things I Can Help With:
3D modeling
Adobe
Procreate/Digital Art
Prototyping
Artsy Stuff
Andrew Widner
Undergraduate Student, ATLAS Institute , Production Assistant at Fiske Planetarium
I would be happy to help with:
3D printing: ALL OF IT!
3D modeling / Digital sculpting
Model rendering / Animation
Everything Blender
Kaya Walker
Undgergraduate Student, ATLAS Institute
kaya.walker@colorado.edu
I like to help people with:
General Tools
Sewing and Textiles
LASERS!
Electronics
Ceramics
ATLAS Social Media (LMK if you make cool things!)
Emeritus / Elsewhere, but still Awesome!
Kai Hughes
I am so very good at:
3D printing and 3D modeling
Digital art and graphic design
Woodshop stuff
Coding languages
Mold making / casting
Creating problems
Solving problems
Photography
Documentation
ATLAS Social Media
Ask me about:
Anything textiles/yarn
Electronics + circuits
General tools
Debugging code
Brainstorming + prototyping
How to survive academic writing
A strange smattering of many other things
Things I know:
3D printing
3D modelling
Woodshop
Electronics/Soldering
Sewing/Textiles
Prototyping
Ask me about:
prototyping
experience design
sewing + textiles
soldering + electronics
Hi! I'm Dover Horesh (Graduated!)
Graduate Student, ATLAS Institute
I work magic with:
Laser Cutter (Lazor Wizard)
Wood Shop
Sewing Machine
Photography
I can do the things:
Basic Tools
Soldering & Electronics
Code
3D Modeling
More as I learn them!