Albert Sein

Hardware Wearable

Aperture

A wearable for your mind. It rests in the groove behind your ear: a crescent of dark brushed aluminium on a soft silicone base. I worked on the mechanical design, the electronics integration and the charging case.

2026   Wearable   Fusion 360   KiCad

Shaped to the head.

The shell's face follows the curve of the head along its length, so it stays the same thickness from tip to tip instead of lifting off at the ends.

Electronics, folded to the curve.

The board is rigid-flex in three sections, each sitting tangent to the shell's curve and joined by short flex hinges. Steel rings soldered to it pass through the floor to meet the magnets in the base. Part positions come back from the KiCad layouts into the CAD, and every rebuild reruns the interference check.

One file, three test tracks.

Every dimension lives in one parameters file that rebuilds the drawings, the fit checks, the Fusion 360 model and both board outlines. The build and test plan runs three tracks side by side: build the first units, scan heads, and run bench and wear tests, with results feeding back into that file before anything is tooled.

The charging case.

I designed the case around the shell: a crescent base and a lid on a pin hinge. Magnets pull the shell into its cups, and it charges through the same steel rings that hold it to the base.

Its own board and battery.

Under the pocket sit the case's own board, cell and USB-C port. A Hall sensor watches the lid, and the contacts only switch on with the lid shut and a shell drawing current.

Drop it in, close the lid.

The shell settles into its cups, the lid swings shut on its pin hinge, and a magnet in the lid's front edge holds it closed while it charges.

Hardware Consumer device

Snack

A physical timekeeper that sits on the back of your phone. One click starts a Snack Break and blocks the apps you chose; a second click ends it, and the app keeps an honest record of where your time went.

2026   Consumer hardware   Fusion 360

Under 8 mm.

Revision R03 threw out the 9.8 mm stack and started clean at 64 by 78 by 7.6 mm. Every part had to fit a named volume after walls, corner radii, adhesive and battery swell, with 7.8 mm as a hard limit.

Two boards in 7.6 mm.

A main board with the USB-C port, a display board joined to it by a flex, the cell, the attachment ring and a deadfront glass, stacked inside the frame. A scripted audit checks 83 critical fits, down to 0.15 mm between the USB-C connector and its cage.

Ready for a manufacturer's review.

R07 is packaged for an OEM design-for-manufacture review: a BOM, a source ledger for every part, an interface net table, and a release checklist where nothing closes without an owner, an artifact, a date and an approver.

Hardware Desk display

Ordo Desktop

A desk display for Ordo, my calendar app. A hull, a base plate, and a screen set into the face.

Spring 2026   Fusion 360   PLA

Two prints and a screen.

The hull and the base plate print separately on a Prusa MK4S, about five hours between them at 0.3 and 0.2 mm layers.

Sized for a desk.

186 mm wide, 68 mm tall and 114 mm deep, with the base plate running out past the hull as a front ledge.