Cooper Shea

Fun-Fit — Fitness gaming startup using custom BLE IMU devices to gamify strength training.

idactic tutor ↗ — Socratic video-embedding tutor to enable students to focus on what matters in learning.

Hardware Consulting — Medical device prototyping and hardware development.

Algae Bioreactor ↗ — Making my own biodiesel.

Silent Pickleball — A retrofit damper that quiets any pickleball without changing how it plays.

GitHub ↗ — Personal and professional projects.


Ask me about past projects.

Biomimetic microneedle for broadly available vaccines. FEA of retention barbs under skin tension. JACS Au paper ↗
Cleft palate orthodontic device for infants with Pierre Robin sequence. A Blender + nTopology + Python pipeline cut the manual process from 14 hours to 2. Poster ↗
Patent figure for the same microneedle retention geometry. US20250186754A1 ↗
Cadaveric test of a suture interlock device.
Next-gen aquaculture robotics at Tidal (X, the moonshot factory).
Drone build.
Cryo-compressed hydrogen concept trailer at Verne. Clean off-grid power for data-center buildouts.
Operating a tabletop CNC mill.
Blood perfusion column, sub-millimeter channels for microfiltration.
Micro-scale 3D print that broke beautifully.
Arizona field work: holding a vinegaroon. Looks terrifying, completely harmless.
Arizona field work: a tarantula hawk wasp.
Collecting 19,000 lbs of discarded plastic with the team in remote SE Alaska. Ocean Plastics Recovery ↗
Life-scale dragonfly. VR-sculpted in Gravity Sketch, post-processed in Fusion 360. Photo essay ↗
Same dragonfly, wax work-holding fixture for CNC. Photo essay ↗
Monstera leaf bottle opener. VR-sculpted in Gravity Sketch, post-processed in Fusion 360.
Machined puzzle I designed, exploded view.
Welding a structural test frame.
Solar-powered go-kart, Idaho. 1st place 2015 and 2016; 30 mph on solar + battery.
Arduino-driven fiber-optic lamp.
Prototype compliant mechanism, 3D-printed in one piece.
Spiral microstructures, printed at micron scale.
Parametric lattice sandal sole.
Tipping-paint-bucket earring, balanced via fluid simulation.
DNA helix earrings, one of several styles I've printed.