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Multiply Labs

The future of pharma manufacturing is robotic. So we built it. The first of its kind distributed and modular robotic manufacturing system. As Co-Founder & CTO, I architected our technology and led our engineering team in realizing a lights-out flexible manufacturing system for personalized medicine.

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Extra Robot Arms that you wear

My MS thesis was in developing a new type of human-robot interaction: wearable robots that augment and enhance human capabilities

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My Quadrotor(s)

I manage to find some time to go flying every now and again... Right now I've got a 450mm quad with FPV, hoping to build a 250 racer too. I've got a lot of micro-quads too!

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Drone Deployed Anti-Mosquito System

I was the main developer and team leader on a project to distribute MicroDispensers of repellant autonomously via a web application for commerical and military use.

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Vecna QC-Bot

While interning at Vecna, I did some work to implement a simple retro-fab capable cooling system to deploy to existing AGVs in hospitals that needed to keep drugs cool in transit.

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Vecna-Charging Contact Test-Bed

Another Vecna task was to develop this PLC controlled, pneumatically driven test-bed. The QC Bot has metal charging contacts and my system will do reliability testing to see how these contacts wear under repeated use.

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Vecna Turntable

One of the bigger projects at Vecna started as a group task which I eventually took on fully. This is a giant turntable rated for >600lbs and with <1° resolution. It is to be used for EM testing and cosmetic photography, so we needed to be sure to EMF sheild the entire assembly.

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Tin Can forge

In order to do some metal casting in another project, I built this hack-tastic forge with a butane torch, plaster, sand and a tin can.

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Photography and Art

I like to think I have an eye for detail, and I use that to engage my artistic side.

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High Precision ToF 3DOF Positioning Sensor

A distance and orientation sensor developed for underwater inspection robots.

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Mac Product Design intern

I worked on MacBook Pros, and did some work testing batteries, redesigning some cables, and reviewing the tolerances of the system and assisting in some re-design accordingly.

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NextEra Energies

I interned at NextEra in their renewables group after my freshman year at MIT. While there I worked on many things, including the design of a vane alignment tool which could be saving NextEra ~$11mil/yr. I can't show the final product but above is some quick CAD to represent the concept.

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Contour - Prosthetic Socket

In my senior capstone class - 2.009, I was a leading designer in the development of Contour. This is a prosthetic socket that adjusts to the shape of your residual limb as it changes throughout the day, using granular jamming. Wearing it is Stephen, our main test-user.

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2.12 Exoskeleton

In my intro to robotics class - 2.12, we developed an exoskeleton to allow parapelegics to walk. Our robot was mounted to a mannequin and I developed the control software and trajectories to help the robot walk.

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Mass Production yo-yo

In my manufacturing class, our final project is to produce a yo-yo at scale with injection molded and thermoformed parts on a tight budget. My team made a high-performance yo-yo. I still love doing string tricks at high speed with it.

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