Projects

Design and Machining

    An assortment of parts either designed or machined at my machine shop.

Satellite Antenna

    A prototype antenna for a nanosatellite.

Isoflux antenna design

  Design and simulation of a variety of isoflux deployable antennas using NEC2 numerical electromagnetics package.

Precision Electroscope

    An experimental and theoretical investigation of finite charged plates. 

Heavylift UAV project

    Designed, oversaw mfg and assembly of a prototype folding heavylift UAV intended for professional cinematography (RED camera).

Centrisonic Particle Classifier

    R&D work to improve particle classification efficiency

Virtual Impactor Particle Classifier

    R&D work done at UBC to develop a CaCO3 particle classifier

Automated Jet-Surface Experiment

    A fully automated apparatus I built as part of my MASc in Mechanical Engineering.

Jet Sprays

Robotics 6DOF Platform

CNC Machine

    A DIY CNC machine built in my mom's garage when I was 16 years old.

Exoskeleton Knee Brace

    A pneumatic exoskeleton knee brace intended for enhancing power output during hiking ascents

Power Crutches

Pneumatic stairwalking and a better use for soda stream canisters. 

Eddy Current Generator and magnetic particle clutch

Prototyping of a component of an ultrasmooth exercise device.

Mechanical Display

    A Kinematic Art Project.

 Monitor Stands

    Designed and built stands for my monitors to raise them to an ergonomic height and to replace the stacks of books underneath them. This project was prompted by the library's need to recover their perfect thickness books. 

Cubed Food

Any soup within 10 minutes, any stir fry within 5 minutes, any omelette within 4 minutes, any smoothie within 1 minute.

 Every recipe is a permutation of a discrete combinatorial set. The reason food preparation hasn't yet been fully automated is due to the complicated geometries involved with food and the difficulty in unpacking food. Cubed food attempts to change this by pre-measuring and shaping partially cooked "lego" blocks of food which a simple machine can dispense, heat and mix.

Sucker Stick

    A tool is in developed to remove the suckers from a grapevine without the need to bend down.

Marketing Card

    A patent pending marketing card.

Magnetic Base Illuminator

    A waterjet mount converts this magnetic base into a portable work light.

Shear Table

    A custom table for a manual shear.

Digital Readout Mount

    A custom digital readout mount

Cast anti-backlash split gear

    Custom non-magnetic anti-backlash gears have been created by casting followed by machining.

Metal Workshop

    Found a garage to rent to for my metalwork hobbies.

1932 Tube Radio - BlueTooth

     My Grandfather's old radio now plays bluetooth music through it's amplifier tube. 

Robotic Autographer

    A robot that autographs names!

Custom Skipping Stones

   Manufactured and Optimized Skipping Stones 

Autonomous Robot Competition

    Our winning autonomous robot.

Bike Light Clamp

    A clamp to adapt high power LED flashlights into high quality mountain bike lights for mountain biking in unlit trails at night.

Water Cooled Mountain Bike Light

    A 100W LED Light capable of an output of 9000 Lumens.

Multi-inner tube

    Two tubes in one tire saves the day

Linzertorte baking tools

    A custom tool is used during baking of these tortes.

Tool holder

    Several key tools have been mounted on a kneemill.

Pin Vise Tap Wrench

    A tool for hand tapping very small threads while reducing the risk of breaking taps has  been created. The tool also ensures the tap is positioned perpendicular to the surface.

Rubber Cutter

    Custom made cutting tools permit a nice finish for cutting very soft rubbers.

FlashCube

    A tiny magnetic flashlight whose tight tolerances fine tuned my machining skills.

SOI Nanophotonics

  Design of telecom racetrack resonators using silicon-on-insulator technology

SOI Nanophotonics ... continued

    An apparatus to measure the responses of the fabricated chips

Computer Generated Art

    A genetic algorithm breeds pictures.

Actively Stabilized Steadicam

    A concept to dampen the effects of vibrations or periodic motion on video capture.

Hot Pack / Cold Pack

    A disposable flexible pack which circulates heated or cooled water around an injury.

Lithium Ion Conversion

    Converted a BoomBox from D cells to 18650 Lithium Ion

Ski Tips

    New Ski Tips!!!

Jacob Ladder

    A Jacob ladder which produces and animation.

Big cake

A collapsing cake that fits one human, a guitar, boombox, balloons, confetti etc. Fit in a car trunk.

Hang Glider Winch Design

    A generous instructor offered to teach me how to fly if I helped him design and build a winch for towing up hang gliders.

Graphic Design Exchange

    A generous graphic designer offered to teach me how to use adobe CS5 if I designed --  and built her parents an anniversary decoration.

Power Transistor Water Cooler

    A cooling mechanism designed for cooling an electric car's main power transistors.

Digital Power Supply

    A home made digital power supply.

Water Clock

    An alarm clock which runs on water.

Nanopore Lab Work Term

    A visual summary of the outcomes of a 2007 workterm.

Shiny Decorative disks

    A polished set of thin brass annuli with an aluminum press fit center.

Hamlet Project

    A mechanical version of Shakespeare's Hamlet.

Rocket Bike

    A BMX rocket bike.

Bicycle Horn

    A car horn installed on my road bicycle

Auto-doorbell ringer

    A prank.

Vanishing Shirt

    A shirt which disappears, exploding to the ground

Compressed Sensing Project

   A project to recover undersampled audio clips using basis pursuit problem

Reflection Transform Math Project

    Development of a transform...ongoing project