Experiments, projects & side quests

Built out of curiosity.

Some practical. Some ambitious. One powered mostly by stubbornness. Here are the things I’ve been making.

THE $30 SOLAR PANEL STORY

“The printer stayed.”

Temp Off Grid Solar

My landlord was convinced my 3D printer was single-handedly eating the entire house's electricity. Instead of arguing with the power meter, I went off-grid out of spite: one $30 solar panel off Facebook Marketplace, plus a custom 300-cell 16s battery pack I built myself, gave me fully off-grid 3D printing for over a year. Local police confirmed the setup was safe and totally fine — which mattered, because the panel spent a minimum of 3,000 miles strapped to my car roof, highways and Highway 17 included. The landlord was wrong. The printer stayed.

SolarDIY 16s battery3D printingOff-grid$30 well spent

A slightly unconventional power supply. Tap a photo for a closer look.

2026

Cycloidal Gearbox Generator

Parametric cycloidal drive designer with live 3D animation, dual-disk stages, a full metric bearing catalog (683ZZ to 6810), housing and mounting hardware — exports STL, 3MF and STEP for 3D printing and CAD.

TypeScriptthree.jsCAD3D printing

Open the generator

Ongoing

Humanoid Robotic Arm

Designed and built a humanoid robotic arm as part of independent research into assistive and enabling robotic technologies.

RoboticsArduino3D printing

2023

Automatic Door-Unlocking Device

Built an automatic door-unlocking device to aid a high school physics teacher with knee issues — an assistive robotics project from concept to working device.

Assistive techEmbeddedArduino

Ongoing

Electric Vehicle Modifications

Modification of electric vehicles to boost performance and function.

EVMechatronics

Oct 2026

Automatic Robotic Vinyl Record Cataloging Machine

More info by October 2026.

RoboticsAutomation

Oct 2026

Robotic Dog

More info by October 2026.

RoboticsQuadruped