Lego3D PrintingCAD (OnShape)

What better way to combine my childhood love of Lego with my adult love of 3D printing? I modeled a 10x scale Lego minifigure from scratch in OnShape, and carefully designed the whole thing for 3D printing with minimal supports, robust joints, and accurate tolerances.

The design has been my biggest hit on both Makerworld and Printables, and has spawned a huge variety of remixes and accessories. It's always amazing to see my own projects spark others' creativity, and see the photos of a thrilled child holding the giant Lego minifigure their parents printed for them.

3D PrintingBlender

After a degree in neuroscience, I've always wanted to hold my own brain in my hands. Thanks to an MRI, some research software, and my first foray into Blender, I finally made it happen. (Bonus: the hemispheres are held together with magnets!)

C++3D PrintingElectronics

When I couldn't find exactly the kind of computer keyboard I wanted, it was a great excuse to design and build my own from scratch (ostensibly as a project for my electronics class). Together with my class partner, I designed the layout, handwired the keyboard, and built the firmware. I also went completely overboard 3D printing the case and all the keycaps. And I wrote way too much documentation along the way.

Jekyll

To get into good habits about documenting things I work on, and to avoid Googling the same StackOverflow answers over and over, I made a website to document everything I do. I wanted it to be as easy to maintain as possible; all I have to do is write some Markdown and push it to GitHub.

NuxtVue.js

I made this website from scratch, too! I wanted to learn a JavaScript framework, and while I was at it, a new static website generator. It was the perfect opportunity to go overboard, including building my own backend to manage publications.

PythonDjangoWagtail CMS

It's cookbook-style recipe website (formerly called Lazy Baker) using the Wagtail CMS framework for Django. It was a fun challenge for myself to build the whole thing in a weekend and a week's worth of evenings. I was bad at keeping track of recipes from various cookbooks, websites, and a very poorly organized recipe box. Clearly, the easiest solution to this problem was to build an entire website from scratch.

HTMLJavaScriptJekyllGoogle Polymer

This project combines the static website generation of Jekyll with the web components framework of Google Polymer to create a full-featured material design blog template.

PythonRubyMatlabJavaScript

Suture Score is an application to provide instant, objective feedback on suturing technique to surgical trainees. To prepare for assessments and surgery, students need as much practice as possible. Using innovative image recognition techniques, Suture Score aims to enhance trainees' practice to improve their suturing skills.

Suture Score was created at the NHS-sponsored TELHack hackathon, where it won first place. It's now being tested for further development and use within the NHS.