Maker · Roboticist · Educator · Dir. of Emerging Technology, Rutgers UOES

Build the thing.
Teach the thing.
Then ship it.

Events that need sponsors and hands, technologies that are open to build on, and talks I'll bring to your room. Pick a lane below and jump in.

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Events

sponsors & support wanted

Sponsors & makers wanted

Sussex County Maker Fest

Oct 3–4, 2026 · Sussex County, NJ

A county celebration of making — 4-H STEM, hackers, printers, and robots under one roof. Sponsors and exhibitors welcome.

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Sponsor or exhibit

Sponsors wanted

Printing Playground @ Robocon 2026

Bridgewater Commons · Sept 26–27, 2026

A live 3D-printing floor at the mall, featuring MakeGood Inc. and assistive-device demos. Filament, machine, and cash sponsorships open now.

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Members & support wanted

FUBAR Labs NJ 3D Print Club

3rd Tuesday monthly · FUBAR Labs, NJ

A meetup for 3D printing in New Jersey — first layer to full production. Bring a machine, a question, or filament to share.

All levelsMonthlyIn person

Join the club

Technologies

open · build on it

U1Education

LearningLoop

Local AI that blends traditional machine learning with new techniques into a learning loop — take an idea, build it, break it, fix it. Results drop into MicroBlocks.fun and p5.js so you can host your own project from what you made.

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U2Research

Coachable Robots

Embodied AI you teach by showing, not programming — SO-ARM101 + LeRobot. The pedagogy and the hardware, together.

Ask about the research

J1Software

agent-hub

A FastAPI + HTMX control plane for ESP32 voice agents — check-in, auto-provision, home them all back to one hub. Open source.

View on GitHub

Speaking & Workshops

available for 2026–27

Bring a talk or workshop to your room

Embodied AI, AI literacy for faculty and makers, open hardware, and accessible notation — for conferences, classrooms, and teams.

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Recurring · I run this

Robot Build Night

Hands-on build sessions — bring a bot, a board, or curiosity. Open to newcomers. Email for the next date and location.

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