I dont have any images of the initial design so this will do.

I was planning to buy a new keyboard (the Epomaker 80HE) but relized that i was going from a 100% keyboard down to a 75%. So what was the sane thing to do?

You guessed it! design an entire Keypad from scratch so that i can sleep at night knowing ill never have a 100% keyboard again.

This was my second ever large scale project that i designed and built from scratch. lets just say there was alot of wasted fillament but hey, i have a goddamn keypad!

AND IT HAS A KNOB

Overall i believe this cost me around 30$ total in parts, not bad at all if you ask me.

Also quite good for a second project i actually designed. Just look at this tiny thing.



Below are a few more images of the project with little descriptions on each one.

Picture this:

Your going through random stuff and you find a cheap lazer pointer from amazon that you got 4 years ago.

Except now its rubber coating is slowly decomposing into oil.

So what would you do?

The obvious answer is tear the metal body apart with pliers and try not to cut yourself while you attempt to get the lazer diode capsule out of it so you can design a better 3d printed body for it.

In all seriousness dont do this. or maybe do... I dont know, its what i did anyhow.

I took mesurements of the capsule after and designed around it. Originally i added knurling but Onshape wanted to die rendering that many triangles so i removed it in the end hence it looks quite bare.

I included a small safety switch and a indicator light for when the safety is turned off which was not originally on the lazer pointer along with using a button that was already on the PCB. I also added a 2000mAh lithium battery, quite overkill considering the original only used 2 triple scream batteries. (AAA)
(Dankpod Reference)

Overall, it wasent too hard to make and dident take too many prototypes, not as much as the keypad anyway... there was some issues with how to assemble it and sizing but i figured it out in the end.

My first Cover.

It was quite a nice song so i decided to cover it.

I almost dident though since i tried contacting the creator if they had an instrumental version and well... I got ghosted xD.

But then i found out about UVR (Ultimate Vocal Remover) and it worked good enough for me to start recording.

Overall for a first cover its not bad, but it definitly could be alot better.

At the end of the day though we all start out somewhere.

My first Japanese Cover.

It also had an actual official instrumental so it automatically sounded better.

One thing i can say is Japanese covers take alot of re-recordings...

And i mean alot... At least for me anyway lol.

The fast section nearing the end of the song was pure pain and still is not perfect.

Good enough for not knowing Japanese though.

My first Colab.

I got asked by my friend if i wanted to cover a song with him and well.

I agreed and we picked out this song.

It faced some delays and despite being the second or even first planned cover it got released as the third.

It wasent too bad to record and quite fun. Harris did the mixing and well... With a bit of back and forth, here we are :3

One of my more emotional Covers.

I found this song around two years ago with it being in my playlist ever since.

While i was looking for songs to cover i found this.

I initially contacted the artist about if he still had an instrumental but never got a reply back.

So i got UVR out again and recorded it in full because of how fimiliar i was with the lyrics.

(Wow who knew the more you know a song the easier it is to sing)

Recorded it once, twice. alot of times, i wanted it to sound really good.

I had two versions, one with a more natural tone and another with all the low frequencies nukes.

In the end i picked the more natural sounding one since it just sounded like the better verison.



From my understanding the song is about a cat named jack. The artist goes through memories he has had with his cat

and how he was glad to have him as a freind. The freind who is unfortunately... No longer with him.

I would highly recommened listening to the original since mine is a meer cover of a hidden gem.

Original: AIKA - Friend

This is my engineering project i made in school over the course of about half a year.
I even had enough time to polish all visable parts.

It has a servo for angel control over the forks and a leadscrew for up and down movement. (no motor control to drive the wheels although this could be added insanely easily)

And before you ask, no i did not design this from scratch. This project was given by the school to make with all the instructions on how to do so. tdlr we were given hunks of metal and asked to fabricate it untill it looked like a forklift.

Technically we did redraw the lazer printed sheets of acrilic but we used the reference sheets as a guide so yeah...
Even so im proud of this thing, its just nice to look at.

Thats about as much text as i could come up with for this section so heres a few more images.

The project i made for my woodwork exam, but unlike engineering this was designed from the ground up.

All we were given is 3 breifs, one was to make a makeup tray with a mirror, one could be anything you want aslong as it served as a memorial and the last one was a book holder with a reading light.
I think you can guess what one i picked

Originally i wanted to make this fully out of oak because i was like ooo nice wood, yeah no... awful idea. anyhow pine was settled on.

There was actually alot that went into this, designing and making the thing, writing a portfolio and sketches.
(Somehow this project scored worse then my engineering one)

The reading light uses a 3d printed grid thingy. its just a scaled down version of one i made before hand. And being real this reading light is not a reading light, it loves to blind you if you glance at it.

It also comes with a storage unit because the top looked really empty and it fits A5 books fine and again the photos really dont show the scale of this thing.
Shes hefty.

Other then that i would put some sketches and my 50000 page word doc on why is picked this design and how it fills the breif but uh... no.
(im too lazy)