Owen L [ 2026 ]

I build physical things end to end — the mechanical CAD, the board, the firmware, and the control loop that makes it run.

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CAD work — mechanical parts and PCB layouts
shipped
steno keyboard, v1
working in
CAD · firmware · python
loading model — steno-keyboard.3mf
steno keyboard — CAD, live in browser
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steno keyboard, full assembly. orbit to inspect.
projects
  • shipped
  • ongoing
  • planned

what i was trying to do

“I chose a steno layout because it forced a design problem I had not solved before. The key geometry is unlike a standard board, which meant modelling every keycap from scratch rather than adapting an existing profile.”

what broke

“The mechanical side went through many printed revisions before the tolerances held; fit and print technique were resolved by iteration rather than calculation. The electronics survived intact — no component lost — which I attribute to the time spent verifying the board in CAD before ordering.”

where i am now

“Each revision of the CAD is measurably better than the last, mechanical and PCB both. I would rather state that plainly than present the work as more finished than it is.”

ongoing

Mechanical parts and PCB layouts, worked on alongside the project above rather than as a separate line of work.

planned

This one doesn't have a scope or a start date yet. When it does, what it is and when it starts will replace this note — not before.

education
  1. coursework

    AP Computer Science

  2. self-taught

    Roblox development — modeling & scripting

  3. self-taught

    Hardware, CAD & firmware — steno keyboard

    repo ↗
about
“I cycle and I train with weights. Both reward turning up week after week more than they reward any single hard session, and both are work I do for its own sake rather than for a result I can show anyone.”

— outside of building

“I do what the work requires, without pretending that how I feel about it is irrelevant to how well it gets done.”

— how i work

“I work across the whole stack of a physical thing — the mechanical CAD, the board, the firmware, and the control loop that makes it stand up. Most of what I know, I learned by breaking the previous version of it.”

contact

for roblox studios, freelance work, or anything else.