Select Projects

• High level AI, robot arm control system, and content for Pierre Huyghe's project "Camata".
• p5.axidraw library for using AxiDraw pen plotters directly from p5.js via WebSerial.
• Folk Computer prototype for projected computing on CNC machines (GitHub repo).
• Co-created the Babel in Reverse art installation under the Manhattan Bridge.
• Robotic tufting for Parks x Needle project exhibited in Data Through Design 2022.
• Hardware and software for Rudy Mancuso's Synesthesia video.
• Software, firmware, and electronics for the AB Venting Machine, used for a marketing event in Times Square (video).
• Synthesizing Human and Robot Movements for Art Production, a workshop taught in the MIT Museum Studio (video).
• Prototyping, firmware, and project management for the SpiroWave automatic resuscitator (NYTimes).
• PCB design for the Bitty pocket drum machine (Kickstarter).
• Hacking a toy into a cheap robot swarm for the artist Agnieszka Kurant (1, 2, 3).
• Software, electronics, and mechanical engineering for an exhibit of artifacts produced by the Glass II glass 3D printer. Exhibited in Milan, Italy.
• Analog record sticker prototype for Chibitronics (video).
• Looking Glass L3D Cube firmware, demos, and prototyping.

Various Projects

A quick visual overview of some artifacts I've made and experiments I've done:

Work History

• February 2024 to now: Various freelance engineering projects
• November 2023 to February 2024: Developing a high level AI and robot arm control system for the artist Pierre Huyghe's project "Camata". Traveled to Paris and then the Atacama desert in Chile for filming.
• August 2023 to November 2023: Recurse Center - Fall 1, 2023 batch.
• January 2023 to August 2023: Developing robotic fabrication systems and novel human-machine interfaces to allow new creative possibilities in the arts at Artmatr.
• February 2022: Hardware and software design for Rudy Mancuso's Synesthesia video
• June 2019 to April 2023: Working as creative technologist and then software lead for the product design firm 10xBeta in New Lab taking products from napkin sketch to working prototypes.
• February 2019 to June 2019: Assisting researchers and companies in the Brooklyn Fashion and Design Accelerator with software and hardware prototyping, manufacturing, and project management one day a week.
• July 2018 to now: Co-founded Haploid LLC. Fascinated by the difficulty of controlling industrial robot arms for creative applications I bought a Kuka KR 16 robot arm and began developing tools and applications around real-time control of robots.
• September 2016 to to end of 2018: A side project helping to make painting machines grew into a company, Artmatr. As engineering lead I grew our team to 4 engineers. As we developed our business model and undertook work with artists we had the opportunity to explore technology from reverse engineering industrial printing equipment to real-time control of robotics, augmented reality, and artificial intelligence.
• 2017: Member of the Mediated Matter team under Neri Oxman doing software, electronics, and mechanical engineering for an exhibit of artifacts produced by the Glass II glass 3D printer. Exhibited in Milan, Italy.
• Fall 2015 to March 2017: Full-time embedded engineer at Tulip, developing systems for instrumenting industrial machinery to capture actionable data on manufacturing processes. Crawled around in some neat greasy industrial machinery, pondered about transpilers for PLC ladder logic, and fought with heterogenous distributed systems.
• Fall 2012 to Spring 2015: Studying electrical engineering and computer science at MIT.
• Summer 2012: Interned at Intellectual Ventures Lab in Seattle working under 3ric Johanson in the photonics lab on embedded electronics for early project prototypes.

Education

I'm largely self-taught and learning is an integral part of my day-to-day life. I started programming early and have been doing it for more than 20 years now.

In 2012 I started a bachelor's degree in computer science and electrical engineering at MIT (course 6-2) and then dropped out after 2.5 years.