Stixelmaker
A web app for turning your photos into custom die-cut sticker sheets, laid out from your phone or desktop.
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.
The current build. Everything else below is the back catalogue.
Sensors, software, physical products, and things built mostly to find out whether they would work.

A mini-game built in UE4 engine. My first complete project.

DIY swimming-pool-ready remote water quality monitoring

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.

Research shows CO2 levels can impair your thinking. This project explores how to build a CO2 level monitoring device.

Experimental design of a FDM Cartesian 3D printer

A functional home accent piece, designed to hold TV remote controls. Built from environmentally friendly materials.
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.
Application and telemetry lead for tastytrade's datacenter migration, and the OpenTelemetry rollout that made it checkable.

A social media image sharing utility built on Web3 decentralized storage

Team Zero at ConsenSys Mesh R&D
A web app for turning your photos into custom die-cut sticker sheets, laid out from your phone or desktop.

A mini-game built in UE4 engine. My first complete project.

DIY swimming-pool-ready remote water quality monitoring

DIY swimming-pool-ready remote water quality monitoring.

Prototype of phone-to-computer text transfer over Bluetooth serial

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.