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NASA Marina Space Station/Hotel Design Competition Winner
My MIT won first place in the graduate division of a recent @NASA competition.
I created Concept art and Animation for our presentation.
Concept art I created of our Mars Habitat Structure design.
We won The Mars City international Architecture competition focused on building sustainably on Mars.
More info here at MIT News.
Structure design by Valentina Sumini.
When life gives you an extra sheet of plywood and unlimited ShopBot time.... you make a wall unit for your tiny office.
I designed Press-fit wall unit in Adobe Illustrator.
I cut the parts on a ShopBot CNC router and assembled the unit without fasteners.
My daily commuter bike encorporates this hand-built bamboo and carbon fiber frame that I made with teammates Pratik Modi and Annan Phan at the MIT ID Lab.
Retro flashlight I machining from a block of solid aluminum using a Bridgeport vertical knee mill and gear-head metal lathe.
Scratch-built RC Race Car for MIT Mechanical Engineering Course.
Build includes:
Clean sheet design
.25" water-jetted aluminum chassis and components
Hand made sheet metal control box
Injection molded wheels
Custom body thermoformed over a CNC milled form
Hand painted graphics
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Rapid component ideation using foam core
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Aluminum chassis cut on Omax waterjet and custom sheet metal control box
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Custom CNC milled form for body thermoforming
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Car graphics design
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...ready for 2.810 RC Car Race