Jellyfish Costume
A Halloween jellyfish built from an LED light curtain draped over a clear umbrella — held hands-free by a modified marching band drummer’s harness.
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Trident
A full-scale, 3D-printed trident for the NorCal Renaissance Faire — modeled in SolidWorks, then battle-scarred by hand with a soldering iron and a copper patina.
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Full-Scale Minecraft Enderman
A full-scale Minecraft Enderman, with glowing NeoPixel eyes run by an Arduino Nano. He’s stood watch over the front yard every Halloween night for two-plus years now.
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Proximity Glasses
An interactive Halloween rig — NeoPixel glasses and armband bumpers that react to proximity via a VL53L1X time-of-flight sensor, driven by an Arduino state machine.
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Event & Heat Counter
A no-electronics, read-it-from-across-the-deck event and heat counter for our swim team — big CNC-routed sign-plastic numbers on a sandwich board. Four years in and still going strong.
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Interactive Fiber Optic Table
Plastic fiber optics embedded in a concrete tabletop, so the surface twinkles and blinks as people work around it. Designed in SolidWorks (with real FEA), built with Apex Install, and installed in IPG’s Silicon Valley showroom.
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Shake Table mk 3
The mk3 shake table — a lighter, open, t-slotted redesign with a clear top so kids can watch the drive mechanism. Fully documented in SolidWorks and open-sourced for schools.
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Fiber Laser Beer Tap
A spare fiber-laser welding head, a valve shoehorned inside, and IPG’s signature yellow cable — turned into a working beer tap for Photonics West. Twist the monitor 90° and pour.
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Shake Table mk 1
My first shake table — a hand-cranked wood-and-springs build donated to an elementary school’s earthquake unit, where heft doubled as damping.
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Rey’s Staff
A Form2-printed Rey quarterstaff from The Force Awakens — segmented resin parts on an aluminum tube, painted and distressed for Halloween. Design credit to Ian Henry.
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Clear Apple Watch Holder
An early 3D-print experiment to see just how transparent Formlabs clear resin could get — sanded, polished, and clear-coated into a crystal-clear Apple Watch dock. The first of several.
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Sharks Helmet For Douglas
Douglas wearing his Sharks Helmet (R3) during opening night, 2008.
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Storytime Chair Project
Upon this base are stickers and custom printed logos of bay area sports teams and universities.
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“The Rook” Project
Rooks had the perfect combination of top to bottom balance and suggestive (recognized) shape.
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“Copper Lamp” Project
The limited palette of copper, brass and black enamel are highlighted by the two red handles of the gas-valve switches.
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“A Little Piece Of Chaos” (aka Steph’s Sign) Project
To set up our chaotic environment, we need to establish just 2 simple rules.
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SF532+CO2 (aka Cinderella Lightpost) Project
Special thanks to Shannon Gomes and Wes Irwin, who contributed great amounts of effort to the SF532+CO2 project.
