I design how people and intelligent machines understand each other.

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Halloween build — go make something fun

31 Oct 2026 · Reel

Moving display inspired by the Porsche Mission S speedometer

30 Oct 2026 · Reel

IKEA planter lamp, driven by a linear actuator

30 Oct 2026 · Reel

A dashboard that physically moves to reveal another dial

28 Oct 2026 · Reel

Five round displays + laser, testing a dramatic effect

27 Oct 2026 · Reel

Transparent OLED glasses — you can see everything

26 Oct 2026 · Reel

Five round displays playing a GIF, frame by frame

23 Oct 2026 · Reel

Spacing + time delay across five displays for depth

16 Oct 2026 · Reel

Five circular displays, timed delays for a 3D effect

16 Oct 2026 · Reel

Five round displays, 30mm apart, for a physical 3D effect

15 Oct 2026 · Reel

Syncing all my wearables into one audio visualizer

13 Oct 2026 · Reel

LED cowboy hat — 144 LEDs, testing light modes

12 Oct 2026 · Reel

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Selected work — from the original site

Work that shaped how I think

Curated, not chronological. Full case studies live in the work archive at dankc.com.

Meta · Wearables

Meta Ray-Ban Smart Glasses

Industrial Design Architect / Hardware Prototyper. Designing and prototyping device interaction for next-generation smart glasses.

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Culture Biosciences · Senior Engineer

Hardware design & bio-automation

Designed and manufactured modular bioreactor systems and auto-sampling hardware, with human-factors work throughout.

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Art & design

Team Spirit Generator

Desktop robots that enhance feelings of team spirit — comfort objects, made to be patted, held, and lived with.

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Art & design

Intimacy Machine

When we hug someone, we can’t see each other’s face. A robot that explores that gap — touch, distance, and attention.

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Exhibition · Vitra Design Museum

End of Life Care Machine

An interactive installation for a final rite of passage, shown in Hello Robot at the Vitra Design Museum.

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Lab experiment

Cardboard CNC

A 3-axis CNC machine, built from cardboard. The “Hello World” of making machines that make things.

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More in the full work archive at dankc.com →

Now — weekly builds

Vibe-coding robots

ESP32, Web Bluetooth, and LLMs as a prototyping partner. I build it, film it, and ask makers and artists what to change next.

• 5-display tower — five round ESP32 displays, 30 mm apart, serial-synced. The depth is physical, not rendered. Watch →
• Wearables audio visualizer — syncing wrist LCD, transparent OLED glasses, and LED hat into one system. Watch →
• LED cowboy hat — 144 LEDs, tilt-reactive and audio-reactive, BLE-controlled from a phone. Watch →
• Servo face tracker — a 2-axis pan/tilt gantry that tracks a face with a wearable camera, driving servos over BLE.
• ESP32 ↔ browser — BLE image transfer, MPR121 touch, and hand-tracking drawing, all in a single HTML file.

About

Designer, engineer, improvisational maker

Education: MAS, MIT Media Lab · MFA Digital Media, RISD · BFA Communication Design, UConn.

Experience: Meta · Culture Biosciences (Senior Engineer) · MIT Lifelong Kindergarten · IDEO · Johnson & Johnson.

Recognition: TEDx Vienna & TEDx Bologna speaker · Exhibited at Vitra Design Museum, MAK Wien, Design Museum Gent, Seoul Museum of Art, Ars Electronica · Featured in CNET, The Verge, Engadget, Mashable, and The Huffington Post.

Core skills: AI product design · human-AI interaction · industrial design · hardware prototyping · device interaction · mechanical engineering · HW UX · concept-to-production · behavioral science · robotics.