A collection of sculpture, installations, and 3D prints that I designed and fabricated pre 2020. As a design generalist and applications engineer at Formlabs, a lot of my work revolved around designing interesting ways to demonstrate the unique capabilities of the Formlabs SLA and SLS 3D printers. SLA is known for it's incredibly high voxel resolution and surface finish, wheraes SLS allows you to print parts without support structures (a pain to remove and post-process).

Learning about these complex 3D-print processes, the capabilities of the various print materials (there are over 50 material types, all polymer based), and researching various unique applications was really fun. I designed sample parts that help demonstrate surface finish, print accuracy, ability to withstand high temperature, biocompatibility, toughness or durability, flexibility, as well as ceramic and wax infused prints that allow you to print kiln-friendly (but awful smelling) ceramic parts, or wax prints that can then be used to create silver or gold jewelry using lost wax casting. I got to see how doctors, architects, jewelers, and small-batch manufacturers all operate, and dig deeper into the world of CAD design. Moving into designing complex enterprise software after spending several years becoming a CAD ninja was a fascinating transition – I suddenly began to empathize with the absurd UX decisions made by teh designers of Rhino, Blender, and Autodesk software. It's strange how designing and building software can sometimes help you empathize more with the computer than the annoying end user.

I also attended a lot of manufacturing and CAD trade shows, expos, and events that taught me about the world of manufacturing and supply chains. (Hint, China and Germany play a big part.)

Read more about some of the projects here: Times Square Lens (an ugly lens that we made under duress, a great time building this in a cold meta shop in Bushwick) MIT Media Lab Installation Demo Parts Generative Pens (separate page)