This is what i am working on actively. I was lucky to find incredible co-founders to build such a cool company. We provide live cell imaging for industrial biology to control processes. If you are interested, and want to learn more, please do reach out!
Some islands in Indonesia need shipments of LNG as cooking fuel. This project, led by Cesar Harada, explored floating hydrogen electrolysis by using solar energy.
It's apparent that we have to end our addiction to fossil fuels. If we want to switch to renewables, an energy source prone to surges and fluctuations, we need to find a way to stabilise the load on the grid. This is usually done with insanely big batteries. But lithium-based batteries are not financially feasible for grid-scale energy storage. An elegant approach to this is to utilise the most common metal on the globe. Iron! This simple element generates energy during a commonly observed transformation. Want to guess? Yes, rusting. This project was built around engineering an iron anode for an iron-air battery. One of the most satisfying projects I have worked on.
I had so much fun working with musicians on this project. Cicada started from a frustration. Most AI music tools felt disconnected from the artist. So I took a field recorder outside and started asking: what if the environment itself became the instrument? The result is a system that captures a snippet of the world around you, slices it into sound, and hands it back to you as something playable, a synthesiser built entirely from that moment. A city corner, a forest, a room: wherever you are becomes your music material.
A gizmo to accompany your meditation. The double pendulum is in chaotic motion when you are not focusing on your breath. When you started to focus, the panel opened up and chaotic motion of the pendulum stopped. Image Recognition + some mechanics
I had a worm compost in the back garden. We had no use for the fertiliser fluid that came from the wormies during winter. So I designed a worm compost integrated with a hydroponic tower. Never got the build it, but it was still a fun project.
What if we nurtured mutualism in nature? “Pine Soule” reimagines footwear by employing pine needles, a readily available forest-floor by-product, as an alternative material. Although pine is a natural resource, how we extract it often disrupts the symbiotic relationships crucial to our ecosystem. 20% of pine mass comprises pine needles that are discarded as by-products. The project proposes to use pine needles from the fire break formation process. Fire breaks are shaped to increase the resiliency of forests to wildfire, and using the natural mass from this operation fosters a new mutualistic connection between humans and nature.
A poem book cover for one of my very talented engineer friends. Started with cyanotypes of the writer's favourite flowers, then layered and iterated until something beautiful emerged. Never underestimate the joy of the process.
Some clothes, and photoshoots. I was afraid to be working on my left brain during materials engineering uni, so I took up numerous art practices to keep my neurological balance.