Open to research collaboration, fabrication projects, and conversations about making composite printing cheap enough to matter.
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Beyond the software: hundreds of hands-on engineering projects — repairing and remanufacturing functional parts for fun and for the challenge. A broken bracket becomes a CAD model, then a machined or printed replacement that outlives the original.
Functional metal and plastic parts machined to fit — repairs, replacements, one-offs.
Prototypes, game remakes, research specimens, end-use parts — PLA to CF-LDF feedstock.
Delta WASP 40100 with custom parametric G-code — vessels designed in code.
Game boards, enclosures, engraved QR codes linking objects to their docs.
Custom PCBs, firmware, sensors — synth keyboards to sailboat vision systems.
PhD candidate, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, University of Ljubljana (2025–2028). My doctoral research tackles long discontinuous fiber (LDF) composites for FFF printing — getting a meaningful share of continuous-fiber performance out of standard hardware and CF/PLA feedstock, instead of the proprietary machines that dominate the field.
The economics are the point: LDF feedstock is 15–25× cheaper than commercial composite filament and up to 60× cheaper on the matrix side — turning composite printing from a per-part luxury into something you can run production on.
The work spans fiber preparation and wet sieving, filament compounding, large-nozzle extrusion (ø1.0–1.5 mm), critical fiber length modelling, and mechanical characterisation.
A camera watches 3D-printed tiles under glass; placing and twisting them plays beat-synced loops.
True-scale AR preview of STL/3MF files on your desk — before you burn ten hours of printer time.
Self-generating daily tourist bulletin: events, weather, notices — published with zero manual steps.
Sensor toolkit, WebRTC chess & Battleships, language aids, strobe, clay reference, choir archive.
A whole pub quiz off a free static host — scripted question-bank pipeline and synced sub-quizzes.
Stylophone-style synth on a Seeed XIAO: capacitive-keyboard PCB, firmware, fabricated enclosure.
Raspberry Pi obstacle alarm for an 11 m sailboat — maritime segmentation and threat scoring.
Mechanical engineer & digital fabricator — PhD candidate @ UL