Predictive Operations for Community Fabrication: A Stochastic Model The Context Community makerspaces and local fabrication hubs are the lifeblood of the right-to-repair movement and grassroots engineering. However, these spaces operate under a unique constraint: they rely on heavily used consumer-grade hardware (such as FDM 3D print farms) maintained almost entirely by a finite pool of …
Project: BeaverBot – Agentic Maker Assistant & Inventory System (Capstone Project for Lonely Octopus AI Bootcamp) The Challenge: Hardware Project Management & Context Switching Developing physical prototypes requires constantly shifting between conceptual design, part sourcing, and inventory management. This context switching breaks flow and leads to poorly documented build logs. The Solution: A Constrained, Function-Calling …
Live Interactive Demo: https://tug-hill-grantmaker-demo.streamlit.app/ The Challenge: Navigating Data Overload in Community Health & Investment Community foundations and grantmakers are tasked with distributing funds to maximize local impact, but they often face a severe bottleneck: critical demographic, socioeconomic, and infrastructure data is siloed and difficult to parse. Decision-makers need a way to rapidly synthesize complex datasets …
Project Overview I worked in a collaborative and cross-functional team to design and fabricate neural probes tailored for electrochemical serotonin detection. By leveraging SU-8 photoresist as a structural substrate and UV-lithography for patterning, we are developing a biocompatible, robust tool capable of monitoring neurotransmitter dynamics with high spatial resolution. The Challenge Serotonin plays a critical …