Author Archives: Nadav Hendel

There is nothing more thrilling to me than the abundant gifts offered by the plants and animals on this earth. Since as long as I can remember, I’ve been fixated by growing things, foraging for food, fishing, and documenting my encounters with ecological wealth. There’s a tiny photo of me at 6 years old holdingContinue reading “Abundance Archive”

My final project at Thayer was a year long endeavor to optimize the FarmBot, an open source CNC backyard farming machine. Our team started from the bottom up looking for ways to simplify costs, design, and function. We performed a mechanical redesign with emphasis on Design for Manufacture techniques, fabricated our own prototype, performed weatherContinue reading “FarmBot Eden”

The final project for ENGS 147 was to develop a self driving robot to navigate a field of random obstacles from known start and end points. The prompt for this class was very open, we were free to choose all components ourselves and develop our own machine architecture. Our team went with a simple designContinue reading “Autonomous Navigation Robot”

In my final year of school at Thayer I took a mechatronics class that covered mechanism and robotic design frameworks. The final project was to build a “RecycleBot” to compete against classmates to see who could recycle the most cans within an arena. The robot was made with some CNC’d parts, a lot of laserContinue reading “Mechatronics Final Project – Icarus”

Inspired by Gyotaku, I began taking ink prints of leaves found during walks through my neighborhood. I really like the way these turned out and hope to do more in the future. Plus a few of drawings done around the same time –

For the 2017/18 formula hybrid season, I wanted to shift my focus away from mechanical work and into the electrical systems of the vehicle. I ended up taking on a complete revamp of the low voltage system, which primarily functions as a safety circuit for shutting down systems in the event of failures or shorts.Continue reading “Dartmouth Formula Hybrid 2018”

After becoming a member at the bike kitchen in San Francisco, I found this old Lemond Alp d’Huez frame in the trash. When I asked about it, they told me it had a hairline crack on the down tube near where it hits the head tube. I took it upon myself to fabricate a gussetContinue reading “Frame Repair”

A series of tote bags and musettes I made after buying a sewing machine during COVID in San Francisco. I used recycled fabric for these bags including old corduroy pants and painters canvas. Some of the fabric was naturally dyed using blackberries I found on the hillside near my house. I also incorporated some inkContinue reading “Sewn Bags”

During my free time when I worked as a machine shop instructor at Thayer I taught myself how to write simple G code commands and build more complex CAM programs in SolidWorks. Youtube really came in handy here, along with assistance from a few knowledgeable friends. At Thayer I used Prototrak mills and lathes asContinue reading “CNC Machining”