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Stixelmaker
A web app for turning your photos into custom die-cut sticker sheets, laid out from your phone or desktop.
Ideas become things.
I'm Brian, a maker and engineer. This site documents my journey from initial concepts through research, experiments, and projects — all the way to finished products.
What I work on
What I'm working on now
The current build. Everything else below is the back catalogue.
A sense of the range
Sensors, software, physical products, and things built mostly to find out whether they would work.
Projects 1 item
InnerSpace
A mini-game built in UE4 engine. My first complete project.
Projects 1 item
OpenWater V2
DIY swimming-pool-ready remote water quality monitoring
Projects 1 item
Power sensing BB-8
A fun way to monitor appliances in your house. I designed this project as part of a Star Wars contest for Hackster.io. BB-8 will make noises at you when the water has finished boiling.
Projects 1 item
Air Impaired
Research shows CO2 levels can impair your thinking. This project explores how to build a CO2 level monitoring device.
Research 1 item
Reboot3D
Experimental design of a FDM Cartesian 3D printer
Products 1 item
TreeMotes
A functional home accent piece, designed to hold TV remote controls. Built from environmentally friendly materials.
Selected work
The professional side — clinical research platforms, NASA flight experiments, Web3 R&D, and the companies I've started. Same instincts as the projects above, different stakes.
2023–2025 · tastytrade
Moving a datacenter without losing a trade
Application and telemetry lead for tastytrade's datacenter migration, and the OpenTelemetry rollout that made it possible.
Observability OpenTelemetry Ruby Elixir +2
2023 · ConsenSys Mesh · Team Zero
Datapult Web launcher | Datapult
A social media image sharing utility built on Web3 decentralized storage
iOS decentralized data IPFS ethereum +2
2022 · ConsenSys Mesh · Team Zero
GeoPass Token Tower: cities benefit from active citizens
A solar-powered, LTE-connected token kiosk that rewards people for showing up somewhere, with a zero-knowledge proof keeping the where off the blockchain.
Zero Knowledge Proofs Hardware GPS Polygon +5
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Stixelmaker
A web app for turning your photos into custom die-cut sticker sheets, laid out from your phone or desktop.
Projects
InnerSpace
A mini-game built in UE4 engine. My first complete project.
Projects
OpenWater V2
DIY swimming-pool-ready remote water quality monitoring
Projects
OpenWater V1
DIY swimming-pool-ready remote water quality monitoring.
Experiments
BT Anykey
Prototype of phone-to-computer text transfer over Bluetooth serial
Projects
Power sensing BB-8
A fun way to monitor appliances in your house. I designed this project as part of a Star Wars contest for Hackster.io. BB-8 will make noises at you when the water has finished boiling.