Traditional Method
Rolls a ball down a calibrated ramp and measures how far it travels — farther roll, faster green. Accurate, but it's a groundskeeper's tool, not something you use before a round.
Gen 1
Creative Technologist
- 2023
Align is a free photography app on the App Store. It prompts users to capture photos that match a predetermined shape — an on-screen overlay guides them toward similar forms in their surroundings. After collecting enough images, the app compiles them into a video that rewards careful alignment. Through this process, users become more observant of their environment, learning to notice repeating patterns and objects that might otherwise go unnoticed.
Examples of things made with the app — compiled from photos matched to the same form.
Gallery installation
A physical photo gallery installation based on Align — stop-sign prints arranged as a wall piece with a QR plaque. The video that plays when visitors scan the QR code on the plaque. Shot on a Nikon ZR with a 50mm T1.2. Tech
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- 2024
Breadcrumbs is a 3D-printed map of State College, PA embedded with LEDs that illuminate according to location data. A companion app connects to an ESP32, syncing my current position with a specific LED on the map. As I move through the day, a glowing trail reveals my path, visualizing where I’ve been. To anyone familiar with the town, the pattern of lights offers a subtle yet revealing portrait of my movements - information inferred purely through illumination.
3D Printing
Printing the modular map tiles, assembling the city grid, and finishing the framed piece. Soldering
Testing the LED grid and soldering components into the map. Final Product
The completed installation — a framed 3D-printed map of State College that lights up in real time, tracing my path through town as location data syncs from the companion app. Tech
- 2025
CUES is a collaborative interactive installation that explores communication, trust, and shared perception. One participant stands inside a triangular structure facing a projection, while another stands outside, guiding them verbally to place their hands on specific illuminated areas. Using Kinect tracking, the piece detects when both participants achieve alignment, triggering responsive visual and auditory feedback. The work highlights how understanding and connection emerge through cooperation and sensory dialogue.
Build process
Behind the scenes from laser-cutting the triangular structure through first projection on the finished form. Proposal
Concept animation made to get the project approved — the player becomes a bridge for the projection to cross and reach the other side. Projection test
Early mapping tests once we started dialing in the projection software on the structure. Kinect test
First Kinect tracking tests for hand placement and alignment feedback. Tech
- 2026
Dialed gives golfers a faster way to get comfortable on unfamiliar greens before the round starts. Using your phone’s camera and a compact folding stand, it analyzes a real putt and translates roll behavior into a personalized read on speed, feel, and pace — based on both live conditions and past sessions.
The Green Speed Problem
Dialed
Uses your phone's camera to analyze real putts and give you a read on today's green speed compared to greens you've already played.
The Stand
Tracking a ball needs the camera low and at a consistent angle — something a phone lying in the grass can't do. The stand holds that angle, prints as one hinged piece, folds flat into a bag pocket, and opens in seconds. Golfer POV
Set up, it disappears into the round. The phone sits at ankle height watching the ball and you stand over the putt the way you always would — nothing to hold, nothing to crouch down and tap. The first problem wasn't software, it was geometry. The camera and the screen sit on opposite faces of the phone, but both need to point somewhere specific — the screen up at you, the camera out at the ball. Gen 1 answered it by mounting the phone upside down with the screen still facing up, and aiming the camera into a mirror that gave it the view of the ball. The mirror hands the camera its view of the ball while the screen stays facing up, readable from standing height. Gen 2
Gen 1 proved the geometry worked, and it was also far too bulky to bring anywhere. Gen 2 kept the optics identical and added a scissor mechanism so the whole thing could collapse into a bag pocket. The blueprint as a first CAD model — frame geometry locked, the hinges still guesswork.
A rendering of the final printable model with working hinges.
Build process
A peek at how these prototypes came together — laser-cut acrylic and 3D-printed parts, built with the tools at Penn State's Learning Factory. Gen 3
All three generations, newest to oldest, left to right — Gen 3, Gen 2, Gen 1. 
Gen 3 comes off the print bed as one working hinged piece — no screws, no glue, no assembly step. That's the difference between handing someone a stand and handing them a kit. Designing the App
Proposal
Made before the app existed, to make Dialed look like a real product instead of an idea.
Setup tutorial
An After Effects prototype of a setup tutorial — walking through distance and slope calibration before a round. The AR measurement flow carried into the shipped app. Slope calibration was left behind — too complex to keep in the on-course experience.
The putter is the controller
After a putt, the putter becomes the controller. You mark how far the ball finished from the hole by moving it through the stand's camera view, so the input happens where your hands already are. The phone stays on the ground and the round keeps moving.
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