Manufacturing

Projects from the machine shop.

Latched Thermos

This aluminum travel mug was made using the lathe and the mill in Stanford's Product Realization Lab. It is comprised of three machined parts (a lid, a body, and a base, which was press-fit into the body) and three auxiliary parts (a latch bent from steel rod, a gasket cut from a sheet of silicone, and a wood veneer sleeve).

Workshop Lantern

I am part of an informal writers’ group called the Failed Novelists, loosely based off of a group of the same name at Oxford. Sometimes we meet in a dinner party setting, sometimes in the context of a picnic. As the weather warmed up, I wanted to design a portable lantern that would allow us to have meetings outside in the evenings. The lantern can be set in the middle of the picnic blanket, and each member can adjust the spotlights to illuminate the paper from which they are reading. The lantern functions metaphorically as well as practically – there are plenty of spotlights to go around, so no single writer’s talent can outshine the rest.