ANSYS
Bike frame fatigue analysis
Meshed the frame variably and mapped equivalent stress to find where it would crack first.
Engineering work, before product.
Mechatronics coursework and early professional work, from before I moved into product management. I read for a BASc in Mechatronics Engineering at Waterloo, 2013 to 2018.
CATIA V5
Carbon fibre tube cutting rig
An automated cutting system: sensors, motors, limit switches, an Arduino. I kept the mechanics dumb and ran it on bushings rather than anything clever.
SOLIDWORKS
Automated cooker spice capsules
A hopper that drops a measured amount of spice without clogging, and goes into the assembly from the top with no bolts.
SOLIDWORKS
Drone PID tuning fixtures
Early drone prototypes, plus rigs that lock out two axes so you can tune pitch, yaw, or roll on its own.
CATIA V5
Telecommunications radio case
Ports, antennas, snap locks, mechanical buttons. The COM-port material is transparent so the LEDs read through it.
DFM
Plastic component design
Ribs, wall thickness, transparent LED lenses, and some snap clips I was experimenting with. All of it aimed at parts that mould cleanly.
CATIA V5
PCB assembly and arm fixture
Placed the board components, animated the microSD going in, and derived the fixture surfaces off the parts they had to hold.
Authored
MasterCAM tutorial book
A tutorial I wrote for high school students: design a shield part, then rout it out of a wooden block in MasterCAM.