Featured Projects
Shoutout to the BTU @ ATLAS in CU of which many of these projects would not have been possible without the resources and community there
RESI (Rendered Embodiment of Social Interaction)
RESI is an ongoing project which will be premiering to the public in early May of 2025. Rendered Embodiment of Social Interaction (RESI) is an interactive audio-visual installation used by marginalized community members to visualize their real-time biometric signals. We integrate brain data and the mind-body processes into generative visuals and engaging soundscapes, revealing the invisible undercurrents of human connection, illuminating how our bodies respond and resonate with one another. Collaborating with partners within Boulder community, such as BMoCA, we aim to bring ATLAS scholarship to marginalized communities who often feel isolated or underrepresented. RESI is an innovative experience blending art, technology, and human interaction towards creating a deeper sense of connection and emotional resonance.
Touch-activated Lampshade Earrings
These touch-activated wearable lampshades include a variety of customizable lampshade designs with a custom circuit and LED enclosure that sits inside the lamp. A simple gravity-enabled way to change out the battery is part of our unique design. The team that I collaborated on this design with includes the wonderful Sena Uctuk and Kai Franks. We were inspired by the idea that interactive wearable tech could be simple and fun, and for an interesting affection for lampshade design.
Audiovisual Reactive Color-Tracking Webcam software
This incredibly fun project built in Max Cycling 74, was inspired by the concept of using sensors and technology to allow manipulation of sound and visual effects simultaneously. Using a color tracker and a webcam, the software tracks the coordinates of a selected color and manipulates parameters for sound effects like speed, filtering and pitch, and video effects like coloring, zoom, and rotation in tandem. Testing this software with different songs, and having others test it was one of my favorite memories of this past year.
"The Regulator"
An interactive game-like nervous-system regulation experience
The Regulator was one of my first wireless communications-driven interactive designs, inspired by using colors and lights as a mechanism to discover the state of someone's nervous system and to use tech as a tool to self-regulate and ground. Utilizing the Arduino cloud, a heart rate monitor (designed and built by our team), an Arduino IoT nano 33, and some LED strips, we were able to build a wireless system that reads a user's heartrate and sends the data to the cloud interface where it can then send the data to the LED panel's processor wirelessly. The processor controls the LEDS on the front and back of the panel. The panel features include a box-beathing LED guide along the sides of the front panel, a backlight that pulses to the BPM of the user, and a LED heart on the front panel that fills up as the user becomes more regulated. Plans are to iterate on this project and make a more finished product that can be easily used by kids or adults for regulating their nervous system in a fun way!
Ghost! - a prank made possible by wireless communications
The wireless ghost project was designed and built as a prank on one of my mentors who works as a game design professor at CU Boulder. We programmed a microcontroller to listen for when someone was talking close by. That microcontroller then sent a signal vis Bluetooth to a second microcontroller which controls a relay switch power strip. When the "ghost" hears someone talking, it then blinks the lights attached to the power strip on and off at random intervals. This was such a fun little system to build, and we ended up hiding the microphone sensor in an uno box, which blended into his office seamlessly. A beautiful feature of the wireless ghost is that it can be easily set up in any location and can control any device that plugs into a power strip. We finished this prank around Halloween 2024, so the timing was perfect!
Post-Internet Project Animation
This animation was illustrated and the motion designed by myself to highlight the need and the goals of the company Post-Internet Project, who works on products to help teens and adults utilize technology to connect in real life, and to cultivate joy and meaning in the post-internet era.
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UCNP Fluorescent Microscope
This project was a joint effort with a PhD student at CU Boulder's Optics and Photonics program. It was designed to use lasers optimized for fluorescing doped nanoparticles. My role in this project was the main build of the microscope, calibration, data acquisition and analysis including imaging of samples.
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The "Big Shhh"
This expressive interactive box is designed to monitor the volume level of its surroundings and tell people to "shut up" when the volume reaches a calibrated unsatisfactory level. If you get too loud, or yell at the Big Shhh, she will be yelling back at you! Great device for those who enjoy moderate to low levels of noise.
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VRSE (Virtual Reality Space Experience)
This experimental payload was part of a student mission to Low Earth Orbit and was contracted by NASA. The product was 4k 360 footage of the mission for Virtual reality educational purposes. My roles on this team included subsystems integration, project manager, testing, and some mechanical work. Believe it or not, our team built and tested this payload over a 4 month period. (COSGC)
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Custom Chess Set and Pieces
This chess set was designed from scratch, laser cut, hand stained and the pieces custom modeled and 3d printed by yours truly! It is compact and designed for travel with a sliding playing board and some decorative old-school designs laser-etched into the wood.
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