About Me
I recently graduated with a MS in Aeronautics and Astronautics from Stanford, and did my undergrad in Mechanical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of Colorado. I am passionate about all things engineering, from mechanical design, electronics, and programming to rockets and robotics. Bringing designs and ideas into the physical world and working with my hands are some of my favorite things to do with my spare time.
I really enjoy learning new skills, so I spend a lot of my free time pursuing personal projects that are way outside of my current scope of knowledge. This website is a way for me to showcase these projects as well as noteworthy research and schoolwork. I have spent countless hours since high school teaching myself new skills like programming, CAD and CAM, soldering, electronics, machining, welding, woodworking and even masonry. Building this website from scratch, in HTML, has been a great way for me to learn more about web development.
Extracurriculars and Research
Fall 2019 - Spring 2021
Over the past year I have been doing research as a part of ARPG under advisement of Dr. Christoffer Heckman at CU Boulder. I've completed a number of hardware and software projects, and have some exciting research in the works!
Fall 2018 - Spring 2021
As a part of the Colorado Space Grant Consortium, I work as the Structures and Systems Team Leads for the RocketSat-X program. We are building a payload to be flown on a Sounding Rocket in August 2021 to demonstrate a method for passive solar array deployment.
My Personal Projects
Fall 2020 - Spring 2021
My partner and I built out a 2004 Dodge Sprinter for the ultimate camping, climbing, adventuring-mobile.
Fall 2020
I built this 8 bit breadboard computer to learn more about digital logic and how computers work at the lowest level.
Spring 2020
I built this freestanding bouldering wall in my backyard so that I could still climb while the gyms were closed during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Summer 2019
This project was mainly an exercise in teaching myself more about the Fourier Transform and its application to functions in multiple dimensions. This was also a great opportunity to gain experience using JavaScript.
Spring 2017
This was one of the first large scale projects that I completed. The project took around 3-4 months with plenty of iteration, but the final product is a 3-axis CNC Router capable of cutting wood and plastics.
2017-2018
Over the course of the past two years I have built two 3D Printers from scratch. The first one was my design and worked suprisingly well. The second printer was made with 3D printed parts from the first and is not my design.
Spring 2017
Building this turbine was my Senior Project in high school. I machined all the components on a cheap metal lathe and a drill press. The rotor and disks are made from steel while the casing is aluminum and the inlet is brass. Using compressed air the turbine can spin close to 100,000 rpm!
Summer 2014 - 2018
This is by far the longest lasting project I've worked on. Starting after my first year of high school, my dad and I built a wood fired pizza oven in my parents' backyard.
Here are a few of my smaller projects, or projects that were poorly documented.
Class Projects
Fall 2019
For the final project in Intro to Robotics our group decided to built an autonomous, mock battlebot. The goal was to utilize a depth camera to locate and intercept an enemy robot by deploying an actuated arm.
Fall 2019
Component Design is a class based upon a semester long project to build a drill powered vehicle to compete in a challenge at the end of the semester. Our group built a scooter built for endurance.
Contact Me
Thanks for stopping by! Feel free to contact me via email, review my resume, or visit my github and linkedin pages!
greg.lund@colorado.edu