Curiosity successfully landed on Mars in 2012 with the Sample Manipulation System (SMS) on board inside the Sample Analysis at Mars (SAM) instrument suite. The SMS accepts Martian soil sample from inlet funnels, rotates to deliver that sample to one
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As the project manager and systems engineer for the Volatile Analysis of Polar Regolith (VAPoR) project, I worked with a team at Goddard Space Flight Center to design a smaller version of the Mars Science Laboratory’s Sample Manipulation System (SMS)
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While working with Aniteal Labs, I helped iterate the design of the Everwarm Incubator for World Medical Technologies. I designed a spring loaded hinge lock that allowed the main support bar to collapse, and redesigned all of the main incubator
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VocalLock was a startup company that invented an electromechanical lock box to combine a simple lock with a smart system to better serve real estate agents. I worked on some early stage prototypes of a solenoid actuated lock box by
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A former coworker from Honeybee Robotics, Paul Bartlett, was VP of Engineering at Atair Aerospace in Brooklyn when I worked with them on a 4 month contract in 2009. They designed and manufactured precision guided parachute systems, among other things.
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My lab at NYU-Poly was a subcontractor on a Phase 1 NASA SBIR grant awarded to my friend and former fellow Eyebeam resident Ted Southern of Final Frontier Design. The idea was to create a robotic hand capable of systematically
Continue readingWhere: Leon Root, MD Motion Analysis Laboratory at the Hospital for Special Surgery in New York City Who: Healthy subjects age 20-45 with no injuries in the past 6 months that affect walking. You must be able to walk independently
Continue readingWe’re more than half way through semester at the Interactive Telecommunications Program (ITP) at NYU that I teach at – a two year graduate program that has been described as art school for engineers, and engineering school for artists. I’ve
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Halloween is a great time for some nerdy fun. Last week I got this awesome open source hardware pulse sensor for Arduino. Then I realized pumpkin hacking was coming up at my hackerspace, NYC Resistor. I remembered some creepy Edgar
Continue readingMy awesome friend Stefani Bardin, who was the new Director of Education at 3rd Ward, invited me to teach a new class there and this is what we came up with: Here are some steps we’ll be taking in class
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