Prototyping & Fabrication

Throughout high school and at UC Berkeley, I've participated in various builder communities and maker spaces, where I've learned, practiced, and taught concepts, skills and methods required to design, prototype, and fabricate physical objects.

Hasty Tortoise

Fall 2021.

Utilizing cardboard and recycled materials, explore different ways to arrange motors and a controller to create a vehicle that has never been seen before. It can roll, flop, fly, float, hop, wiggle or move by any means. Think extremes: how big can it be? How tall can it be? How low can it be?

To this extent, I created Hasty Tortoise, a small and compact, oblong-shaped vehicle that resembles a not-so-average tortoise.

Origami Exploration

Fall 2021.

Drawing inspiration from Paul Jackson's Folding Techniques for Designers, I found and made three different origami models. The paper structures I decided to explore were linear knife pleats, simple spiral pleats, and multiple V-pleats, ranging from low to medium difficulty.

With still origami as a starting point, I moved onto kinetic exploration: through imparting force on the origami (e.g. squeezing, stretching, and twisting), how can I create a moving art piece that draws attention and captivates the viewing audience? How can I design a repeatable, motorized movement?

Drawing Machine

Fall 2021.

How can we push current artistic boundaries and create a device capable of producing drawings autonomously without a human presence? The drawing machine I designed uses typical stationary such as pencils, pens, and highlighters, to create markings on paper through motorized centripetal motion.