While with Honeybee Robotics, I acted as the lead technical consultant to evaluate the malfunction of the large projection screen mounted on a track on the outside of the Moscone Center in San Francisco. The screen was designed to follow
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In May of 2006 I got to travel to Namibia, Africa, to film a pilot for the show Battle of the Geeks – a BBC/Open University co-production. We had 48 hours to figure out a way to get an egg
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My good friend and industrial designer extraordinaire, Elliott Montgomery, came up with a design for a mobile solar charging unit for Solar One in the summer of 2009. He asked me to help turn the concept into a reality, and
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Urs Fischer: Marguerite de Ponty was on exhibit at the New Museum from 10/21/09 – 2/7/10. Among many works of art was a tongue that stuck out of a hole in the wall when a visitor walked past. I worked
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While working with Kammetal I modeled designs for another iteration of their furniture for the Chipotle chain of restaurants. I translated the architect’s hand sketches and AutoCAD drawings into 3D models of tables, stools, and light fixtures. The raw materials
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Aki Sasamoto, a Whitney Biennial artist and co-director of Culture Push, ran two events at which I got to show people how to make and race mousetrap powered cars. The first was a DOING workshop where I taught a small
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SADbot was created for and installed in the window gallery at Eyebeam Art + Technology Center (when it was in the Chelsea neighborhood in NYC), in partnership with Ben Leduc-Mills (with funding through Kickstarter). It used two 18.5” x 13”
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The smart blast cone sampler was developed for Rio Tinto in Australia to automate the process of testing samples of earth for iron content to decide where to focus mining operations. I was deployed in late 2008 for a 4
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The lunar dust tolerant connector was developed to support the connection of different components involved in lunar surface operations for a potential permanent outpost on the moon. The unique environment – the vacuum of space, the magnetic, highly abrasive properties
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The Inchworm Deep Drilling System (IDDS) concept evolved to allow for interplanetary deep drilling without the need for a large drill rig. The 7′ long drill has two “feet” that allow it to preload itself against a launch tube or
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