physical gallery — Boland, Jack

PureWater Trike

The Hangbot Project

Kijani Clamp

Skin on Frame Kayak

Kuchora

Illumimate

Mosquito Range Rings

Low Cost Irrigation Pump

Olfactory Alarm Clock

Bike Totem

BBQ Printer

Sweatsedo

CandyPooper

Lunch Cart Tracker

Package Alert

$25k Cookie Decorator

BioSand Filter [Ecuador]

Engineers Without Borders

Progress Gardens

Undergraduate Project

PureWater TrikeTo create an adapter that could mount on a bicycle that would allow a rider in an underdeveloped area to ride up to a water source, start pedaling backwards to pump and filter the water, and then simply pedal away.

The Hangbot ProjectCreate a hanging wall plotter that could be suction cupped to any smooth hard surface and used to draw vector art and render images anywhere.

Kijani ClampIn order to help alleviate the frustration of packing seedling pots for farmers in Uganda, I designed, prototyped and then injection molded a small clamp to help hold bags open while farmers fill them with dirt.

Skin on Frame KayakDuring quarantine I decided to build a skin on frame kayak. It has a bent wood frame with a ballistic nylon skin and a polyurethane coat to water proof it.

KuchoraSomewhere in between paper signage, hand drawn murals and LCD displays, lies Kuchora a Dynamic Canvas that you can use to easily draw custom artwork and signage from your computer, reducing energy and paper usage.

IllumimateIronically before COVID, this project was inspired by the distance between myself and many of my love ones. The cast aluminum and wood finished desk totem (and future clock) holds a ultrasonic proximity sensor that illuminate the LED ring around the perimeter on the partner device when you walk by then slowly fade giving your loved one a feeling of your presence in the room as you move about.

Mosquito Range RingsInspired by the Rocky Mountains, these rings, made for my close friend’s wedding, display the topological data of the Mosquito Range wrapped around their circumference.

Low Cost Irrigation PumpFor the most remote farmers, at the bottom of the pyramid, solar irrigation is a clear answer to breaking the poverty cycle. Enabling farmers to cultivate their land in the dry season more than doubles their income, quickly covering the cost of irrigation equipment, but the jump into irrigation still poses too much risk when there is no safety net. Team Jalgoy aims to break down that barrier to entry

Olfactory Alarm ClockConstructed a device to condition my coworkers to leave the office everyday when they smell the signal scent. Then while anonymously tracking the presence of people in the office, I could see if I can manipulate the time that they leave if I start to slide the release time.

Bike TotemIn the interest of keeping in touch with your loved ones, the bike totem maps the motion of the wheel of your partners bike so when they are on the way home from work or our for a joy ride, you get the sensation that you are experiencing their ride as well.

BBQ PrinterWhen Design Concepts exchanged their old FDM for a newer model, I found out that Stratasys only took out the extruder head and control boards of the old machine, a process that they thought rendered the machine useless. Fools. My plan was to restore it using a CNC controller (TinyG) that I had lying around and a knock off Makerbot extruder, but while I was working on a client project, I discovered a more exciting potential use for it. We were working with a material that is extruded as a paste and then cured with heat, which made it difficult to produce functional prototypes, so it seemed like a perfect opportunity to try an build a syringe based rapid prototyping machine.

SweatsedoI had been scheming on this idea for awhile: “What if you made a fully featured tuxedo using the remnants of a sweat pants, sweat shirts and TShirts”? It would have all the comforts of your Lazy Winter Sunday Netflix Binge with the sophistication of Your Boss’s Blacktie Award Ceremony. All in one outfit!

CandyPooperAfter moving from the Madison office to the San Francisco office at Design Concepts, I wanted to help devise a way to boost communication between the offices and help the new hires in our satellite office get to know those back in headquarters better. When a coworker brought in a cheap, touch sensitive candy dispenser and asked me if we could hack it, it seemed like a great opportunity to do something fun to bond the offices together.

Lunch Cart TrackerAt Design Concepts, when a client is in the office we will typically have food brought in for lunch. Millie sets up the table with an array of delicious sandwiches, chips, salad and cookies (or sometimes a taco bar!) and wheels it outside the meeting space in the middle of the office. It sits there while the diners enjoy their lunch and those of us not involved in the meeting walk by trying not to drool over the food — a temptation I can only imagine akin to Eve in the Garden of Eden.

Package AlertAt Design Concepts – SF, we have two floors: the first floor is the workshop and front door where the packages are delivered to and the second floor is where the desks and computers are, and where all the people awaiting packages work.There is a tendency for whomever answers the door to sign for the package and then place it on the shipping table downstairs but not tell the recipient it is there. This is completely reasonable behavior since the person who signs for the package is presumably busy with their own work, but typically when I am waiting on a package it is a time sensitive item and I could really use it as soon as it arrives.

$25k Cookie DecoratorAfter convincing Brett to trust me with his robot (a difficult feat unto itself), I hatched a plan to make the robotic arm draw our company logo onto sugar cookie with icing. Once this was accomplished, the second objective became to create a more engaging interaction with the demo so they weren’t just standing there watching me run the machine. This eventually involved writing a program to prompt the user to place a cookie on the plate and detect when it was available to be decorated.

BioSand Filter [Ecuador]With the money that Josh and I received for the PureWater Trike, we decided to use it towards a trip to implement a biosand filter project in Ecuador at Lalo Loor Dry Forest Reserve. I had previously written a proposal for the project with two other Engineers Without Borders members but we didn’t get the funding, so when we got this money, it seemed like a perfect opportunity.

Engineers Without BordersFrom my first semester at UW Madison, I have been working with the University’s chapter of Engineers Without Borders with our Haiti Program. Partnered with the community of Bayonnais, in Northwest Haiti, I’ve helped lead a subgroup researching and prototyping latex concrete roof segments.

Progress GardensCreated a rotating platform for taking time-lapse videos of microgreens growing for a Professor in the UW Madison Art Department.

Undergraduate ProjectA collection of various projects from my undergraduate time at UW Madison’s Mechanical Engineering program.

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