Manufacturing and Design Engineer MechE @ Northwestern

Joined January 2026
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I love it when a CAD comes together
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Trying to ssh to a device via eduroam is a top 10 nightmare experience
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I take it back
Time to retire the ole Jeepers (chatgpt). Been working on my supercharged tiny pod idea (adds camera and buttons) and chat really is struggling with visualizing or finding parts. In about 30 min I have some great off the shelf components (under 75$ too!) I can put together and well defined next steps for myself to design. Sent it out to an EE buddy… should work out pretty well… let’s see how good this meche is at electronics lol
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Did 30 min of this earlier… the clarity is crazy. 10/10 would recommend 👍
staring at a wall for 15-30 minutes a day makes you LOVE DOING HARD WORK. it resets your dopamine baseline, reduces artificial dopamine spikes, and makes tasks that would otherwise feel BORING feel engaging again.
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Drone In Progress
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Double Nothing Burger with Extra Happening Sauce at the Polymarket Situation Room
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Won 3rd place (Home Defense Track) at MIT’s MakeMIT MakeAthon a few weeks back! It was the world’s biggest hardware hackathon so far (until Purdue - will be there too!) so it was really cool to see all the ideas people developed. Was inspired by @allencontrol and came to the competition with the idea of making a similar style of turret but for a smaller target (mosquitos) using lasers. Once I got there and they revealed the different prompts we decided to switch it up to be focused on targeting paparazzi camera to ensure privacy in a home. Not bad for a first Makeathon and a random team!
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Spring Break is like 6 ish days away plan is to start cading a super charged tiny pod, playing around with open claw, learning sheet metal (as much as possible), and then working on some furniture projects I’ve had kicking around in my head… Any other ideas?
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Time to retire the ole Jeepers (chatgpt). Been working on my supercharged tiny pod idea (adds camera and buttons) and chat really is struggling with visualizing or finding parts. In about 30 min I have some great off the shelf components (under 75$ too!) I can put together and well defined next steps for myself to design. Sent it out to an EE buddy… should work out pretty well… let’s see how good this meche is at electronics lol
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Caving in…. Buying a Mac Mini for open claw and trying to control it from tiny pod to then enhance the functionality of the tiny pod lol… wish me luck
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Thinking about buying an Apple Watch Ultra and Tiny Pod Case, and trying to fully ditch the phone since I always have a laptop on me - has anyone done this? Biggest concerns are Email, Youtube (Podcasts), and ofc X. Has anyone done this yet? Clawd Bot will probably be clutch for a lot of this....
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Benjamin Runde retweeted

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I think this is incredible for the defense tech space and I'm so pumped, but as a fan of Zero to One, am I cooked due to the competitive pressures I'll be feeling when I want to start my own startup in 10 years?
We’re thrilled to announce a groundbreaking, multi-year partnership with Andreessen Horowitz (@a16z), one of the world’s most influential venture capital firms. As a16z’s first-ever Technology Acceleration Partner for Governments, Booz Allen will bring our mission expertise and tech industry leadership to a16z’s world-class portfolio of 1,000 top tech companies. Through this partnership, Booz Allen will accelerate how we co-create, scale, and deploy highly differentiated commercial tech into critical U.S. missions—strengthening America’s security, technological supremacy, and prosperity like never before. Let’s go: boozallen.co/3Z8yhRG
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Benjamin Runde retweeted
We’re thrilled to announce a groundbreaking, multi-year partnership with Andreessen Horowitz (@a16z), one of the world’s most influential venture capital firms. As a16z’s first-ever Technology Acceleration Partner for Governments, Booz Allen will bring our mission expertise and tech industry leadership to a16z’s world-class portfolio of 1,000 top tech companies. Through this partnership, Booz Allen will accelerate how we co-create, scale, and deploy highly differentiated commercial tech into critical U.S. missions—strengthening America’s security, technological supremacy, and prosperity like never before. Let’s go: boozallen.co/3Z8yhRG
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New Engineering X… getting ready to tinker max this year with @nd_nwaneri
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