Photogrammetry Box for Nasher Museum

Served as project lead and technical mentor for a student design team developing a portable photogrammetry system for the Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University to enable high-fidelity 3D digitization of museum artifacts.

Defined system requirements in collaboration with the museum, guided mechanical and electrical design decisions, and reviewed CAD, prototyping, and integration throughout the build. The final system featured a collapsible light-box enclosure with magnetic connections for rapid deployment, a motorized turntable for precise incremental rotation, and a fixed camera port to ensure alignment and repeatability.

Oversaw the design of an internal illumination system using LED strips with alternating polarized and unpolarized lighting, synchronized with turntable rotation to capture matched image sets at identical orientations. The completed system reliably produced high-quality photo sequences that were successfully processed into accurate 3D models of museum artifacts.