JAVIER REYNA
Happy. Engineer. Designer.
Old-Fashioned Magnifying Glass
A machined, old fashioned magnifying glass
Turned the lathe for the production of a plastic handle, threads, acrylic lens and brass ring.
Milled a brass lug with matching threads
Kinetic Toys - Airplane Rescue
Non-motorized propeller, but it spins due to air flow!
Crank handle and meshing, perpendicular barrel gears
Educational: Centripetal force and Center of Mass physics
Airplane rescue scene: Man hangs from ladder while holding the love of his life (what else could you ask for?!)
Hybrid Rocket Motors
Designed, built, and tested fuel grain patterns for maximum impulse
Modeled fuel grain regression rate, pressure and temperature in MatLab
Turned a converging-diverging nozzle and fuel grains on a lathe (0.001" tolerance) and milled fuel grain patterns.
Sand-Casted Stanford Plaque
Sand-casted and pour at the Product Realization Lab
Bronze
Chicken Run - A Fun Animation
As a teaching assistant for ME101: Design Thinking (an introductory engineering class at Stanford University), I prepared a quick and fun demo for using a governor mechanism to create animations. In this case, a chicken panics over possibly being dinner!
