Quick projects
Birth - Present
Designs for various people at various times: animatronic snowman parts to dorm basketball hoops.
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- Role
- Solo · for Duke eNable, Duke staff, friends and family
- Built
- Designed a one-hand quick-release prosthetic mount for Duke eNable, plus replacement animatronic-snowman cams, a dorm basketball hoop and rewired table pedals
- Result
- Adopted by my Duke eNable subteam as the base for task-specific attachments like a guitar pick and utensils
- Tools
- CAD, FDM 3D printing, press fits, retaining rings, wiring
Most solutions take very little time. This page is an homage to those that took an afternoon, but still yielded nice photos. (Not pictured are things from high school/the misc. Discord bots and old programs I wrote while learning to code).
The thumbnail photo is a set of hooks for my freshman dorm room. The hooks are patterned onto a tessellated component which connects into copies of itself before being retained with a ring. It was an overkill solution but printed free of supports and press-fit together satisfyingly.
The second photo was my design for a quick-release prosthetic mechanism for Duke eNable, an organization I'm a part of that designs free adaptive equipment. The mechanism I designed was selected by my subteam and used as a basis for task-specific attachments like a guitar pick and eating utensils. The mechanism itself was swappable with one hand, and rigidly held devices in place with a retaining ring. We didn't fully benchmark the design's strength, but estimated it could hold well over 50 lbs.
The miscellaneous cams and components were replacement parts for a vintage animatronic snowman that a Duke OIT staff member couldn't find parts for. The basketball hoop was a gift to a friend on my floor, and the pedals were a replacement electrical system I wired for my dad's old powered table.
