calligraphy by herald
The team behind Herald
The five of us, all undergraduates, created Herald in the fall of our sophomore year. Feel free to contact any of us through email or other methods listed below. If you have questions or comments for the team as a whole, please use our contact page.
Daniel (aka the Litchfield Lumberjack) worked with Kate on Herald's mechanical system. He is an enthusiast of aviation, film, and classical music. His teammates describe him as passionate, quiet but thoughtful, and shy (he asked Kate to write this bio for him).
Kate worked with Daniel to design and build the mechanical system of this project. Her favorite moment this semester was the first time Herald wrote an entire poem, at the end of an all-nighter, just as the sun came up. Aside from this project, she enjoys trail running, the smell of the machine shop, a good, strong cup of coffee, and writing about herself in the third person.
Shane Skikne hails from Middleton, Ma, but he rains from Johannesburg, South Africa. He helped in all sub teams by creating the user interface, helping with G-code generation, CADing a pen, and plugging the Arduino into his computer. In his spare time, he adventures, plays Ultimate Frisbee, improves Olin as a Resident Resource, and comes up with awful robot ideas (ask me about the tack-bot).
Eric is majoring in electrical and computer engineering. He named Herald*, and joined the team out of an interest in robotic fabrication. Without him the steppers wouldn’t step, the GCode wouldn’t stream, and the Arduino wouldn’t GRBL. Given time, he’d like to make those happen smoother and at higher current.
*He’s very proud of naming it “Harold” without anyone noticing.
Diana wrote the G-code generation software, adapted existing double-stroke fonts into single stroke fonts, and researched the electrical and software systems used in the project. She considers her excitement about engineering to be an extension of her passion for artistry and finds that her main motivation to learn things is to increase the quality and complexity of the things she is able to make.