About
The Hive is Georgia Tech’s ECE student makerspace open to students, faculty, and researchers across campus for prototyping and fabrication. As a Prototyping Instructor, I provide hands-on guidance to people working on projects across a wide range of tools and technologies.
What I Do
- Guide students and researchers through 3D printing workflows: slicing, material selection, troubleshooting failed prints
- Assist with laser cutting operations including material prep, file setup, and parameter tuning
- Help with embedded systems and electronics projects: wiring, breadboarding, microcontroller setup, basic circuit debugging
- Support PCB soldering and basic hardware assembly
- Manage open lab hours and keep the space running smoothly
Why It Matters to Me
Teaching something is one of the best ways to understand it. Explaining why a print failed, or why a laser isn’t cutting cleanly, or why someone’s Arduino isn’t reading their sensor forces you to think from first principles rather than intuition. I’ve learned as much from helping people debug their projects as I have from building my own.
There’s also something genuinely satisfying about watching someone who came in not knowing what a breadboard is leave with a working circuit. My first time in the Hive was my freshman year. I walked in knowing nothing, walked out with a working sequently light display LED breadboard project.