Hello, I'm Kyle Florek, a Mechanical design engineer focused on tech and consumer electronics.

Took a 1981 Honda CB650C and converted it to a Cafe Racer in college. I made a custom fiberglassed seat cowl, custom stainless steel seat pan and custom seat cover, machined handlebar standoffs, and redid the electrical system.

Custom design heavy-duty woodworking bench, that has a 5.5" thick top, 8" quick-release face vise, sturdy base, and custom cabinet with maple veneer faces and mahogany trim. It's massive and I love working on it.

A friend of mine wanted a woodfired pizza oven for his backyard. We poured a concrete slab, built the base, poured the tabletop, and built the oven in 3 weekends. A custom cement mixture was used to insulate the 4" thick dome. You can place your hand on the outside with a 850° woodfire inside.

My wife and I moved into a new apartment last year with limited cabinet storage and counter space, so I made this to fill a corner and give us extra working room. The countertop and shelves are made from recycled Boeing supply crates, and I made the cabinet from scratch in my personal woodshop.

This was a fun 3-dimensional sign I made for the college machine shop after we got a couple of 3D printers.

In college, I designed and made this delta printer after seeing something like it online. There weren't plans available so I designed it from scratch in Solidworks. 8" bed diameter and12" print height, this was a practical and fun project to grow programming and prototyping skills.

These are the corner connecting joints for the Delta printer. I designed and machined these myself, with the larger parts having 6 setups each. They bolted to aluminum extrusion to provide a very rigid frame, allowing the printer to keep it's calibration after being moved by one of the pillars.

I wanted some bookshelves for my home office and made these with baltic birch plywood and recycled crown molding. I made them in my basement woodshop, where the ceilings are so short I couldn't tip them up. It was pretty comical working on the bookcases on their side until I moved them home.

After we got our new CNC mill I wanted to test the 12k rpm spindle with some surfacing. I designed these dice to have a gentle bubble face on each of the 6 sides and used a tapered 1mm diameter ball endmill to machine and engrave each one.

To maximize the limited amount of window light we get into our apartment I made shelves and supports to hold as many plants as could fit in the least destructive way. Secured with a couple of screws on the sides, this setup can be removed without us losing anything from our security deposit. Supports made from ambrosia maple.

I originally designed this as a DIY CNC glue machine for optical assemblies and once it wasn't needed for that I designed beefier mechanical parts and converted it to cut wood. The cutting area is 14" x 15" using a Dewalt 611 router and GRBL as the CNC controller.

As I machine more and more Aluminum parts for projects I wanted to be able to anodize them myself. After some research, I purchased titanium wire, anodizing dye, battery acid, lye, and a 30V/10A benchtop power supply. I have type II anodized a handful of parts with improving results and better color.