software developer
Joshua Lopez-Binder
making code that deals with shapes @unspun :] Studied Mechanical Engineering and art at Carnegie Mellon University.
making code that deals with shapes @unspun :] Studied Mechanical Engineering and art at Carnegie Mellon University.
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Experience
3D print instructor
Teach new employees and residents how to use 3d printers (fortus, objet, zprinter) as well as laser cutters (meta-beam, epilog), water-jet (omax), and cnc mill (shopbot).
Research Engineer
Researched print-quality and reliability issues with the Ember printer. The ember printer is a stereolithography 3D printer that uses a DLP projector.
Conducted experiments... more and developed mathematical models aimed at understanding key failure mechanisms in Ember prints.
Created a test rig for measuring the motion of the z-axis linear drives in Ember. Designed, CNC machined, assembled the rig. Also wrote software for logging data and did analysis on the motion data.
Conducted experiments... more and developed mathematical models aimed at understanding key failure mechanisms in Ember prints.
Created a test rig for measuring the motion of the z-axis linear drives in Ember. Designed, CNC machined, assembled the rig. Also wrote software for logging data and did analysis on the motion data.
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edge-unfolding of meshes in rhino-python
Python · This tool is for making meshes in the real-world out of something that creases. Like paper.
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What I Do
I write programs that deal with shapes. Shapes are my favorite. At the moment I am interested in fun computational geometry problems, staying pragmatic, ecology and evolution. I have made various generative art projects using programming and a mesh-unwrapper that runs in Rhino.
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Achievements
Created a cad plugin called rhino-unfolder, which allows users to unwrap meshes for manufacture in sheet-metal or plastic.
Designed, machined, and built a rig for measuring the motion of linear drives at the micron resolution. Built software for collecting and logging data. Did analysis of the data and performed experiments on linear drives.
Experimented with genetic programming and simulations of coral growth with python.
Took Nonlinear Dynamics: Mathematical and Computational Approaches online course, did assignments in Julia (new scientific computing language), it was a great experience!
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What I'm Looking For
Fun projects, fun collaborators, good trees to climb.
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What's your favorite non-business book?
If On a Winter's Night A Traveler, The Golden Compass Series
What was the most impactful class you took in school?
Programming 114. I was super lost and didn't understand why I should care about strings and whatnot. And then about 75% through the class I was like HOLY COW!!! This is so neat!
If money were not an issue, what would you be doing right now?
making computational models of organisms or ecosystems with a team