Griffin Whittredge

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Bonsai is the art of perfectly replicating a scaled down version of nature, capturing the full beauty of the world. This project aimed to perfectly recreate the exact reverse process that allows most life on earth to function through the application of modern technological advances. The careful selection of parts […]

Reverse Photosynthesis Machine

July 14, 2019 in Projects tagged Arduino by griffinator8tr

I built a Raspberry Pi based arcade system off of a few parts that I had lying around, and a few that inspired the project. The arcade cabinet was a GoodWill find ($5) from an iPad arcade emulator. The cabinet had enough buttons to emulate a fair number of […]

Raspberry Picade

May 25, 2018 in Projects tagged Arcade / Games / Gaming / Raspberry Pi by griffinator8tr

Graduating from Wentworth Institute of Technology with a Batchelors of Science in Electromechanical Engineering with a minor in Applied Mathematics, I needed some way to go out with a bang! So, naturally, I decided to decorate my cap. But I couldn’t do anything run-of-the-mill, this was my college graduation! I […]

Tassel-O-Matic

April 24, 2016 in Projects / WIT tagged 3D Printing / Cap / Graduation by griffinator8tr

A friend of mine and I worked together one summer to make a replica of Daft Punk’s Thomas helmet. But, we decided to go all out, and make a mold so that we could reproduce them, as many as we wanted. So, we decided to make a mold and cast […]

Daft Punk Helmets

February 2, 2016 in Projects / Props by griffinator8tr

As an elective, I chose to take a manufacturing course, as it has always interested me. The course focused on 3 axis milling machines, the ones in Wentworth’s new manufacturing center. Through the course, we machined a working air engine, and at the end of the semester measured the speeds […]

WIT Air Engine

January 11, 2016 in WIT tagged engine / WIT by griffinator8tr

Believe it or not, me and two other students were tasked with repairing Wentworth’s nano particle generator. I know, a couple students working on a machine which has parts that cost more than a years tuition seems crazy, but hey. I got to work on a nano particle generator because […]

WIT – Nano Particle Generator Repair

January 11, 2016 in WIT tagged nanoparticle / WIT by griffinator8tr

After buying a nice pair of bluetooth headphones, the related products pages suggested stands. The price tag of these stands, combined with some free time meant that I made my own headphone stand. Starting with a sketch, and the intention of making it entirely from acrylic sheet that I had […]

Headphone Stand

January 11, 2016 in Projects tagged projects by griffinator8tr

Blue rose is a prop from Devil May Cry 4, a neat video game. At the end of high school, a friend wanted a prop from the Devil May Cry 4 video game. Blue Rose, a named gun that the character Nero used. In order to quickly make a prop, […]

Blue Rose Prop

January 11, 2016 in Projects / Props tagged Props by griffinator8tr

I always thought swords were kinda neat. But, what’s cooler than a sword? One that you made yourself, that looks awesome! This was a ton of work, but totally worth it in the end. This project started with a trip to King Richard’s Faire, where among other memorabilia, you could […]

Custom Sword

December 31, 2015 in Projects tagged Fabrication / Swords by griffinator8tr

What’s better than a new tool? A really cheap, yet high quality tool. Found at a yard sale buried in a box and rusted together into a solid block, but for $50 who could argue? Here are some of the pictures that I took of the lathe that I purchased […]

Lathe Restoration

December 30, 2015 in Restorations tagged Restoration / Tools / Turning by griffinator8tr