Tushar's HTMAA 2025 Workshop

Making (almost) everything, one week at a time.

15%

I'm Tushar. Sketch artist turned photographer turned maker-in-training. Git is humbling, CAD stands for "Constantly Adjusting Dimensions," and 15% after Week 4 feels... optimistic?

Final Project — Orbis

A tabletop instrument for deliberate thought—inspired by Swiss watchmaking, built with humble tools.

Concept & Framework

Multi-scale reflection: Dial, Compass, Horizon.

Three instruments for deliberate thinking

Design Exploration

Horological precision meets embodied cognition.

Form language from VC Patrimony

Week 4 Prototype

Captive ball: additive-only geometry.

Testing 3D print tolerances

Weekly Projects

Click into each week for assignments, attempts, failures, fixes, files, and next steps.

Week 1 — Project Management

Git, ideation, design research.

Orbis origins & inspirations

Week 2 — Laser Cutting

Halftone portrait & cardboard stand.

Structural failure → redesign

Week 3 — Embedded Programming

Kaio-ken animation system.

RP2040 + OLED + capacitive touch

Week 4 — 3D Printing

Captive ball sphere design.

Iterating tolerances

About

I love coffee, learning new things, and pretending to know things.

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Hi, I'm Tushar. First-gen student from India, studied business/philosophy/economics, graduated from Harvard in 2024, now at a Stanford-backed climate hardware startup + Harvard research affiliate, where I host The Frontier State podcast. True beginner in fabrication; strengths in design, photography, sketching.

Making & learning each week

15+ years photography (landscape/street/macro), extensive sketching practice, lifelong gamer. HTMAA is where I learn the hands to match the head—CAD, electronics, machining, the full stack.

Frontier State, research & why Orbis

Host The Frontier State podcast (ex-Senators, VCs, DeepTech founders). Research: DeepTech policy, hardware innovation. Orbis emerged from Media Lab's "Designing AI for Human Flourishing"—a physical tool for multi-scale reflection.

Obsessions: coffee, watches, halftones

Seasonal horologist (rare mechanical watches with complications). Also self-teaching oil painting since Summer 2025, building on years of dabbling within art mediums. Avid tennis player & former track athlete.