Science and Engineering: Master's thesis
For my master's thesis at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, under the guidance of Prof. Jennifer Lewiss, I designed, modeled and tested "multinozzle" printheads. These devices passively split a single stream of ink into 64 streams of equal flow to increase the throughput of 3D extrusion printing.
MS Thesis (.pdf, 40 MB)
Supplementary files (.zip, 2 MB)
For my master's thesis at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, under the guidance of Prof. Jennifer Lewiss, I designed, modeled and tested "multinozzle" printheads. These devices passively split a single stream of ink into 64 streams of equal flow to increase the throughput of 3D extrusion printing.
MS Thesis (.pdf, 40 MB)
Supplementary files (.zip, 2 MB)
Craftsmanship: Turner's tetrahedron
A turner's cube is 3D shape that appears to be a "cube within a cube within a cube" but is manufactured from a solid piece of material. Instead of the traditional cube, I machined a shape that has the same structure or pattern as a Turner's cube, but used a tetrahedron as the basis. This guide goes through the process and challenges of making this shape on a 3-axis CNC mill.
How to make a turner's tetrahedron guide (.pdf, 4 MB)
Large spinning GIF (.gif, 6 MB)
A turner's cube is 3D shape that appears to be a "cube within a cube within a cube" but is manufactured from a solid piece of material. Instead of the traditional cube, I machined a shape that has the same structure or pattern as a Turner's cube, but used a tetrahedron as the basis. This guide goes through the process and challenges of making this shape on a 3-axis CNC mill.
How to make a turner's tetrahedron guide (.pdf, 4 MB)
Large spinning GIF (.gif, 6 MB)
Craftsmanship: Miniature chess pieces
This is a step-by-step guide on how to make 3D miniature chess pieces using only an acrylic bar and a laser cutter.
How to make laser cutter chess pieces guide (.pdf, 4 MB)
This is a step-by-step guide on how to make 3D miniature chess pieces using only an acrylic bar and a laser cutter.
How to make laser cutter chess pieces guide (.pdf, 4 MB)
Programming: Sum Some Sines
- Interactive Processing sketch.
- See the addition of sine waves!
- Completely controllable!
- Make the sines breathe, wiggle and flex!
- Overview on YouTube.
- Download executable for Windows, Mac or Linux.
Programming: Pendulum wave effect simulation
- Interactive Processing sketch.
- Visualizes patterns formed by an array of pendulums
- The pendulum bobs' collective motion produces a 3D spinning illusion.
- Open source.
Visualization: Video of conductive silver ink pen
- Directed, filmed and edited video.
- Video introduces a pen that draws conductive silver traces.
- Product now commedically available.
- Research done by collegues A. Russo, J.A. Lewis, et al.
Visualization: Photographs and Illustrations, 2013
This portfolio includes photographs, 2D illustrations and digital paintings that I worked on while I was a grad student at the University of Illinois in Urbana, IL (2011-2013).
Portfolio 2013 (.pdf, 14 MB)
This portfolio includes photographs, 2D illustrations and digital paintings that I worked on while I was a grad student at the University of Illinois in Urbana, IL (2011-2013).
Portfolio 2013 (.pdf, 14 MB)
Visualization: Photographs and Illustrations, 2010
This document is a collection of photographs and illustrations I created at Arizona State University in Tempe, Arizona (2006 - 2010), and at Firestone High School in Akron, OH (2002-2006).
Portfolio 2010 (.pdf, 10 MB)
This document is a collection of photographs and illustrations I created at Arizona State University in Tempe, Arizona (2006 - 2010), and at Firestone High School in Akron, OH (2002-2006).
Portfolio 2010 (.pdf, 10 MB)