Tristan joined Simplexity in 2015. He brings his creativity and rigor to machine design and development. He has designed consumer electronics/mechatronics, measurement instruments, assembly line tools, and industrial machines.

Expertise

• Mechanism design, modeling and analysis
• Rapid prototype development
• Tolerance analysis
• Design for injection molding
• Sheet metal system design
• Weldment design

Experience

9+ years machine design including:

• Numerous invention-to-prototype cycles
• Precision adjustments with inexpensive components
• Mechanisms for powder handling and mixing
• Elastomeric seal design
• Precision motion linkages
• Light pipe design
• Micro mechanisms
• CWRU SAE Baja 2015 suspension design

Education

• BS in Mechanical Engineering, Case Western Reserve University (summa cum laude)

Recognition

• Gustav Kuerti Award for Scholarship (CWRU 2015)

Pending Patents

• Appliance for processing of cosmetic formulations US20200128941A1
• Lid of a build material carriage of a three-dimensional (3d) printer EP3609681A4
• Build material dispenser refill control for additive manufacturing WO2019005042A1
• 3d print material shut-off WO2018194664A1
• End effector and systems including a wear indicator based on mixing US20200093252A1
• End effectors and systems including a haptic or audible wear indicator US20200037746A1
• End effectors and systems including colorimetric wear indicator US20200037745A1

Interests / Obsessions

• Mountaineering, hiking, outdoors, backpacking, slacklining
• Photography
• War history
• Existential philosophy
• Inventing

Blogs

• Pragmatic Printed Protos: 3D Printing’s Proper Place in Product Prototypes
• 3 Important Considerations When Designing Wearable Products
• Pan-Tilt Security Camera Teardown
• Successful Sealing Strategies: How to Design a Sealed System
• Doing Math and Playing Outside With Weblocks
• Four Challenges and Solutions for Mechanical Integration of Optical Systems
• Battle of the Buttons: UCSD vs. PSU

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Favorite Quotes

• “Accuracy and clarity of statement are mutually exclusive.”
  – Niels Bohr
• “ ‘In this world you must be oh so smart, or oh so pleasant.’
  Well, for years I was smart. I recommend pleasant.”
  – Elwood P. Dowd in Harvey by Mary Chase