I'm Andrew Zeller.

I make things and avoid identities.

See what I've been up to lately See my portfolio

A bit about me:

  • I grew up in the frozen tundra of Green Bay, Wisconsin and have since escaped to Alabama and California during my college years.
  • I am currently a senior mechanical engineering student at The University of Alabama.
  • I spent the fall of 2016 as a student at Cal Poly in San Luis Obispo, CA through a national student exchange program.
  • In my free time, I love road cycling and weightlifting, and frequently throw running and swimming into the mix racing triathlon.
  • I'm passionate about design at the intersection of our digital and physical worlds.

Work Experience

Mechanical Engineering Intern

Summer 2015 and 2016

  • Developed conveyor add-on product to extend capabilities of mobile robot platform.
  • Designed user onboarding experience for fleet management UI.
  • Designed and prototyped vacuum gripper concept.

Engineering Intern

Fall 2015

  • Made bike frame marketing tool distributed across 7 countries.
  • Designed custom components for Trek Factory Racing team riders.
  • Designed and machined fixtures for carbon manufacturing.
  • Industrial design and surfacing in SolidWorks.

Mechanical Engineering Intern

Summer 2014

  • Remodeled and redrew legacy AutoCAD parts in SolidWorks.
  • Analyzed roll crown calculation methods using SW Simulation and Excel
  • Designed an improved scraper blade system for adhesive rolls.

My Recent Projects

NASA Mining Robot

2015 National Champion Design

3D Printed Wallet

Made using o-rings and ABS.

CNC Machined Parts

Made using a Haas CNC Mill and Lathe

FIRST Robotics

6 Weeks: Design, Build, Test

Animation

Autodesk 3D Studio Max

Let's get in touch

Robotic Vacuum Gripper

Summer Intern Project at Fetch Robotics

NASA Robotic Mining Competition.

3D Printed Wallet

Made using two o-rings and 3D-printed ABS plates.

CNC Machined Parts


FIRST Robotics Competition

In this annual high school competition, my teammates and I designed, manufactured, and tested a fully functional, life size robot that could play sports like frisbee and basketball in just 6 weeks.

3D Animation

I made this animation in Autodesk 3D Studio Max and Adobe After Effects.

Website Design

I designed the logo and static website for the 2017 Bama Triathlon.

The Odin Project

I made this simple Etch-a-Sketch website as part of The Odin Project using JS.
View project on Github

Post-O-Matic

I made this microposting app following Michael Hartl's Rails Tutorial using Ruby on Rails, Bootstrap, and Heroku.
View project on Github

Blogger

I made this simple blogging app using Ruby on Rails, Bootstrap, and Heroku.
It has basic user authentification, allows for basic creation of articles, tagging articles, uploading images, editing and deleting articles.
View project on Github