Featured Projects

As a random idea, I decided to download and modify a guitar and then 3D print it. This has all the electronics and such to enable it to work just as it should. This is my prized project, and the immediate one I refer anyone to look at.

A friend of mine owns a very historical gun that had stopped working. Once he was able to identify the problem, the project was sent to me. He sent me the part that was bent and broken in addition to the new one that didn't fit, but had the appropriate hook on the end. I then remade the part taking various dimensions to create a new part. I then 3D printed the part and sent it to him. The part was tested and worked first try! It was then sent to be made in aluminum and the gun has been restored to full working order.

As a school project, my classmates and I were tasked with custom designing a sort of mechanism that was able to transport emergency supplies (this egg) across a body of water such as a river in the event of a natural disaster. This design was given a scale and could not be supported across the water with a bridge. I was tasked with designing a basket that would both carry the egg and allow for the release mechanism to remove it without cracking it.

As I was playing drums on my Alesis DM6, when I hit the cymbal, the knob that holds it against the post they sit in broke off. I was disappointed but I knew it was eventually going to happen as the set is over 7 years old. I decided I was going to remake the part that way if this ever happened again, I would be able to create replacements. I took the broken knob and glued it back together the best I could and then preceded to use my calipers to measure the features of the factory part. Once I was done, I 3D printed the first design and made design changes from there. After three iterations of my model, I successfully created a knob that correctly fit and screwed onto the post to hold the cymbal on it.

This was a project Idecided to work on because my old laptop didn’t meet my satisfactions for screen usage. I happened to have an extra monitor at my house and decided it would be perfect to use on the go. I took a picture of the geometry of the monitor and then began to sketch out a design to use around that scaled pictire. At the very end of the process I decided to 3D print these stands (that are mirror images of each other) in TPU filament so that they would flex instead of break when they were in my bag.

For a class project in my freshmen year of high school I was given a set of technical drawings that were of a toy train. In this case my assignment was to simply recreate the trains parts (including the track) and then combine them into an assembly of the final design. These parts were also converted into STL format to be 3D printed and put together.

As my father and sister were going to a Stryper concert, they had said that they wanted to take them something signed by our family since they would be meeting the bad and bringing home signed items. I chose to create a physical rendition of their logo to be 3D printed. I went off of an image on one of their concert DVD covers and began scaling the lines to the appropriate dimensions. I had to make each letter line by line rather than simply using the text tool in Autodesk Inventor because the band’s logo is not a font. Once everything had been designed, I then colored the model to match the bands logo. Finally, I 3D printed the entire piece, but didn’t print it and sent it with my family to the concert.

At the end of my junior year in high school, the class was given a project to design and manufacture a box of some sort completely on our own. My partner and I worked on this design for several months and finally came to an agreement that our design would consist of a hexagonal box with a curved edge on the lid, and that we would inset a symbol (laser engraved on acrylic) from the game “Overwatch” into the center of the lid. After designing these parts, we also had to use the CNC machine and various other resources to make the completed box. We were then asked to create a dimensioned drawing of each part and then the overall design of the box.

I had an idea to make a challenging puzzle for people to play with. I then decided I was going to create a set of pieces that would for a cube when correctly assembled. I chose the size that the final cube would be 3x3. I then used grid paper to sketch out my pieces and then designed them in software. Once all of the pieces were created, I then added them all into an assembly in order to check the fitment and overall dimensions. This cube was then 3D printed into all its separate pieces for physical use.

I decided to enter this project into the 2019 West Virginia Makes Festival. I had a need for several things to be 3D scanned but I couldn’t get access to a scanner. I found out that some people are using a Microsoft Xbox Kinect scanner to capture geometry. Now that I had the resources, I needed a way to rotate a model and not let it move in any vertically or horizontally. I went with a diameter of 8 inches for the turntable and added supports to give it strength but not consume a lot of material. I then 3D printed this design and attached it to the motor that ran the system.

This coin was designed to be a Christmas present to the member of Christ temple Church. I was given an image to take the spire from and then designed the rest of the coin around that base. The design is made so that it can be scaled in any way and still be proportional so that it can be manufactured in any size.

As a class project in the beginning of my high school education, I was handed a set of technical drawings of a car and various parts. I was then asked to recreate these parts and then assemble them in software.