Mechanical & Hardware Engineer
ThomasWaters
Custom hardware, from concept to fabrication.
Fabrication-Ready Files
Weird Briefs Welcome
No Black Boxes
A bespoke sheet metal accessory designed from first principles — reverse engineered to the bike, prototyped in plywood, and fabricated via SendCutSend. Finished with a custom laser-cut stencil paint job.
A fully printable camera tripod with a custom stepped-thread height mechanism that resists vibration without a locking lever — plus snap-fit hinges and magnet-retained hardware. STEP files published.
A dimmable LED lamp with no microprocessor — NE555 analog PWM circuit designed in KiCAD, PCB milled on a Bantam CNC, and enclosed in a custom 3D-printed housing designed in OnShape.
Not every project ends with a product. These entries document experimental methodology — a watertight enclosure experiment, a magnet spacing test rig, and a multi-setup CNC workholding strategy.
Available for freelance mechanical and hardware engineering work — from early-stage concept and prototyping through to fabrication-ready documentation.
Comfortable working independently or alongside an existing engineering team. Especially interested in projects that involve novel constraints or no obvious off-the-shelf solution.