My Projects

Something that left a tremendous impact on me was the smell of fresh flowers which fills the air here in Walkerville in the spring. What a wonderful place to exist with such a pleasant aroma filling the air!

It's something which is unique within Windsor, as far as I can tell, to our small community here in Walkerville, and I'd like to do what I can to contribute further to it. Utilizing the same methods as my other low-maintenance low till beds, I plan to plant a row of Lavender plants along our sidewalk, between the space from the road to the sidewalk. I believe these will add tremendous character to the neighbourhood (especially if others will participate as well!) and should be a nice addition to the aroma of the area.

Last year, I started several trays of seedlings for use in my garden, with poor results. This year, I have revamped my entire setup, and have been growing seedlings with the intention of distributing among my extended family.

The improvement to the setup, however, has yielded far better results than I had anticipated, and I am now offering seed starters to my local community in Walkerville for a nominal cost to help recoup the costs of the materials.

I am a big fan of the artwork contained within our little gem of an alley, Butterfly Alley. I was told by a friend when moving into the neighbourhood that it was actually the very first named alley in all of Windsor! The artwork is great, and I hope to see more added to it over the years, but how great would it be for us as a community to come together and turn this gem into an oasis of sorts for our magestic friends?

In October of 2024, I proposed the idea to the Walkerville community facebook group, to signficant support. This year, we will be moving ahead with planters along the back of my property, as well as a few supportive properties as part of the beta program. This first generation of planters will be a test for us to collect additional information on the overall design & requirements for maintaining these flowers in the alley, and will enable us to roll out an improved variant next year. I am not a fan of wasted efforts, so ideally, these planters will be relatively little maintenance (if not practically none at all!) in order to help in the long-term viability of the project. I believe this will be important to this project staying a success for years (or decades!) to come.

I will be releasing the plans for these planters soon, along with estimated costs and timelines, so stay tuned for more information!

Sourdough bread is great, and I was surprised to find out just how easy it is to make. I'm also quite an adventurous guy, so naturally I started experimenting a ton with what combinations of materials worked in sourdough. The results were, well, I'll let you be the judge of that, but if my family was anything to go off of then it was enjoyed enough that significant weight was gained! (whoops)

While I no longer have exact recipes for my experiments (quite the oversight on my part, I know, but I'm working to remake them!), I will do my best to describe some of my successes with these breads, and hopefully you'll try and make some of your own!

If you are not familiar with the benefits of sourdough bread (especially over store bought industrialized bread), this might be a great project for you to read!

Pep Corp. was by far the largest project I have taken on to date. Incorporated when I turned 18, it was a startup aimed at changing the plastics manufacturing industry, be enabling FDM 3D printing for mass-production (including automotive components).

Over its short existence, Pep Corp. saw several significant successes, and rose to a peak of nearly 1M CAD in annualized revenues, with hundreds of thousands of components produced, and a team of 10+ employees. Most recently, one of our successes was multiple batches of production components which landed themselves in the early versions of the Stellantis EV Dodge Charger.

The company began in my Mother's garage (thank you Mom <3), eventually grew to a facility within the University of Windsor's Engineering Building (Courteous of the Epicentre Accelerator), and finally into our own 3700 sq.ft. facility in Walkerville off of Assumption St.

Check this project out if you'd like to learn more about my largest life's work thus far, and if you'd like to learn some from both my successes and my failures over such an ambitious endeavour.

Peppers are a plant I enjoyed growing in my youth, so I decided to have a go at growing a couple dozen plants, both in the ground, and in pots, on my property here in Walkerville. I had mixed results, surprisingly, some of the plants grew to be quite tall (a meter and a half tall!) and took on an almost bush-like appearance.

Even more interestingly, some of my smallest plants turned out to be the most productive, with some producing almost as much yeild in pepper as they did in foliage!

I grew more than just peppers in this year, so if you're interested to learn more, or are looking for inspiration for some of your smaller oddly-shaped properties, check this out!

This particular house (and I suspect many others in the area) has a thin strip of property which is typically left for grass or gravel. In my case, I decided to put it to work and turn it into a small vegetable garden!

Overall, despite the small size, I was pleased with the amount of produce I was able to get from this space, and I anticipate the yeilds will continue to improve with the years, as I perfect both the soil through no-till strategies, and get a better idea for which plants grow best in this area.

The bed began with a thin layer of carboard, which I then layered soil and mulch directly ontop. Once complete, I soaked it with water for an hour or so, and then waited a few days before transplanting seedlings to the bed. This strategy worked remarkably well, allowing me to have a garden bed with nearly no weed pressure, all while avoiding toxic alternatives such as pesticides, or plastic based fabric-cloth (I really dislike that stuff).

My first year of growing seedlings indoors; the results were mixed at best. I started many of the plants far too late, they took much longer than I anticipated to germinate, and the seedlings were not very strong nor healthy by the time I was transplanting them.

Overall, it was very much so a learning experience, and I was able to improve quite a few aspects for the following year (I write this now most of the way through my 2025 season). In particular, the watering system I was using (sprinklers) was not ideal for the seedlings, and made quite the mess. In addition, my lights were mounted fixed to the underside of the shelves which previously held my 3D printers, and the seedlings grew leggy as a result. I had been struggling to adjust the height using dozens of carboard boxes, stacking them to decrease the distance between the seedlings and the lights.

Labelling was also an issue for this year. I tried to keep track using sticky notes, which did not stick to the trays, and on multiple occasions they got blown off & lost or confused for other trays. I had also been planting nowhere near enough plants, as I was covering far too large of a variety, and only planting a half dozen or less of each.

MyPhoto3D was a seasonal project focused on creating memorable and impactful Christmas gifts by 3D printing photos onto Christmas ornaments.

The project was an instant success, with each year since the first leaving us manufacturing at maximum capacity through to three weeks past the Christmas season (Surprisingly, a lot of people were happy to wait until into the new year for these impactful gifts!)

The idea came from when I gifted a 3D printed lampshade to my mother with some of my favourite family photos on it. Considering how much of an impact it had on her, I wanted to bring the same joy to other families, leveraging the manufacturing capacity I had available through my other startup, Pep Corp.

MyPhoto3D excelled in the years which it operated, and we have significant plans to relaunch the project with additional products and resources. The project came to a temporary close after the turmoils Pep Corp. faced financially after the pandemic, and I have been saving up to ship out final replacement kits to individuals who received defective batteries for the lights in our last year of shipping. I look forward to reconnecting with our fans, and continuing to offer these amazing products leaving memorable moments for years to come.

Building race cars was not something childhood me ever would have imagined I would be doing (although he'd think it's bad-ass). I've never been much of a car guy, although I do respect the works of art that they are, I enjoy working on them in the same way I would any complex mechanical system.

The University of Windsor's Formula SAE team was not something that I specifically sought out, but rather it was something that showed up at my door. Shortly after (or rather, during) I moved my lab from my Mother's garage and into the University of Windsor's Centre for Engineering Innovation, one of the students required a part for their formula car. After realizing their workshop was literally on the other side of the garage door of my lab, I quickly became acquanted with the teams members, who I eventually found to be some of the best engineers I have ever had the pleasure of meeting.

My input to the team was not very hands on, but rather I was typically trying to foster a productive working environment amongst the various members. While the core team was very self-motivated, there was definitely an outer ring whom needed a little bit of direction and encouragement. I was typically holding people accountable for the quality of their work, pushing them to do better, and ensuring they were investigating and following the rules outlined by the SAE organization.

Enactus Windsor was a student-run chapter of a global organization, Enactus, which is a non-profit organization focused on using entrepreneurship to solve issues within our communities. Enactus Windsor is a globally recognized, multi-award winning chapter, often acclaimed for sweepstaking our provincial, and even national, championships.

During my time on the team, we were tackling many serious issues, such as youth financial and business literacy, rehabilitating victims of human trafficking, stigma around menstrual cycles, consulting struggling local businesses, and more. With over 100 team members at the time, we had the energy, resources, and willpower to tackle some of our communities most challenging & unique issues for our specific region.

To say that working on this team was one of the most impactful experiences of my life would be an understatement. This team was full of nothing short of exceptional individuals, each passionate and dedicated to the causes we were tackling. It was an honor to work with such a talented cohort of people, and exceptionally fulfilling to see the significant impact we were having on our local and extended community. I miss them all often, and hope they are doing well in their various pursuits (as I expect they would be! They were all naturally gifted and excelled at anything they worked on). What an amazing group of people which I had the lucky opportunity to work with.

In my seniour year of high school, I was one of the founding members (although not the first!) for our First Robotics team, team 5885 - The Villanova Wiredcats. As a first year team, there was a lot we had to do (and a ton that we didn't know). Making it all the way to the World Championships in St. Louis Missouri via a Rookie All-Star Award, it was one of the most formitive experiences of my youth.

While I was head of the design team, we truthfully did not do much formal design. Certainly there was no comprehensive CAD model of our designs. Instead, most of my time and energy went into finding sponsors (very early days, this transitioned over to our kick-ass business team), building the robot, training for and with the pit crew, and focusing on strategy for the team. What designs we did have were all pen & paper, as well as hand done calculations, and plenty of trial and error.

I believe First Robotics is such a valuable and important program for the future of our Engineers & society as a whole, and I strongly encourage you to participate if you can. Either as a mentor, or as a participant if you are a student! I still try to make time to mentor when I can, although I have not been able to make it out as much as I would like in recent years, I look forward to see how the team & others continue to evolve, expand, and improve in the coming decades. I can not imagine the advancement of First Robotics & what competitions will be in another 10 or 20 years.

CC4K was a non-profit which I ran in my youth, in support of our local hospital, the Windsor Regional Hospital's paediatric and paediatric oncology wards. At the age of 8, I began raising funds for the charity by selling Chinese paper lanterns on the corner of my grandparent's property in LaSalle. From there, the project evolved to include my two brothers, and a couple friends, to solicit funds through raking leaves for our local community.

Over time, my strategy for the project changed, as there was only so much money to be raised through physical labour. Instead, I decided to begin designing and selling Christmas cards during the holiday season. Thanks to the incredible support and generous sponsorship of multiple printing shops to cover 100% of the cost for the cards. This project was incredibly successful, with us selling out of cards very quickly in our first printing runs.

In our last year, we operated a charity concert with a Led Zepplin inspired tribute band. In total over the seven years the charity was in operation, we raised over $30,000 in donations for the hospital.