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A connected workflow for making things.

Bringing material planning, live inventory, printer state, and custom storage design into one software and hardware system.

My role: Product lead and builder
Scope: Software and connected hardware
Focus: A complete workshop workflow

Current Workshop organizer designer showing a tray with six compartments, design presets, and controls for exporting printable models — The current Workshop designer shows a organizer with six compartments alongside presets and export controls. Select the image to inspect it at full size.

The problem

The tools were connected by the person using them.

Home 3D printing spans model selection, material planning, spool inventory, printer operation, and storage. Those steps often live in separate tools, leaving the user to reconcile the state of the workshop.

I designed a product around that complete journey, connecting the information needed to plan, print, and organize the result.

What I built

Software that knows about the workshop.

I defined the roadmap, component boundaries, data flows, integration requirements, and failure behavior. React and Python services connect with printer state, spool identity through NFC, and computer vision workflows.

Plan: connect model selection, materials, and loading guidance.
Operate: bring inventory and live printer state into the workflow.
Organize: generate fitted storage with configurable geometry and exportable models.

Current AMS dashboard showing loaded slots, linked spools, material identity, remaining filament, humidity, and drying controls — Material identity and live printer information sit together, reducing the need to reconstruct state across separate tools.

Product judgment

Physical systems need explicit boundaries.

A connected product has to account for permissions, state changes, and failure across software and hardware. I treated integration boundaries, observable decisions, and points for human intervention as part of the product design.

I directed AI agents across product research, interaction design, software, firmware, computer vision, and validation. I set the shared direction and reconciled the work across those disciplines.

Current Workshop 3D preview of an existing fitted tool tray with STL, dual STL, TPU liner, and 3MF export options — An existing saved tool layout rendered in the current 3D preview, with tray, inlay, and options for exporting flexible liners.

What this demonstrates

A working product spanning interface design, data flows, hardware integration, and generated geometry. Its breadth comes from following a real workflow across the boundaries between tools.

Tools and systems: React, TypeScript, Python, MQTT, ESP32-S3, NFC, and computer vision.