Current thinking, still in progress
The two sketches below are unfinished, working ideas rather than polished designs — but they show a pattern I keep coming back to: I set myself an open-ended problem, then work it through piece by piece.
A grounded mechanical exercise
A concept sketch for a small go-kart — I worked out the seat, headrest, and steering/braking layout in enough detail that it could plausibly be built, not just drawn for effect.
A more open-ended question
A speculative concept for a robotic spinal support structure. I worked through it issue by issue: how it might regulate temperature (I borrowed a passive cooling approach from termite-mound architecture), how it might source and store power, and where the idea runs into real constraints — I noted those directly on the page, including structural trade-offs and the simple fact that people wear clothes over something like this.
It's a rough, evolving idea, not a finished proposal. What it shows is a habit I have of thinking across biology, energy systems, and mechanical design at once — which lines up with why I'm interested in biomechanical engineering specifically.
