Portfolio
2026
Four projects from this year. A fundraiser the whole band programme depends on, a Mac app for CNC woodworkers, a house you can walk through in your browser, and a marimba built from scratch. Different problems, same approach: design it properly, build it, put it in front of real people.
Software · Fundraising
Tag Day is the band programme's one-morning fundraiser: students fan out across neighbourhoods collecting donations. We built the software that runs the day, and the training video that gets every canvasser ready before the first door.
The app we built to run it
Tag Day overview for canvassers
Mac app · Open source
A Mac app that turns an SVG into a two-piece wood inlay you can actually cut. Drop in artwork and it generates the matched pocket and plug G-code, picks safe feeds and speeds for your wood and bit, previews every toolpath in 3D over a render of your stock, and streams the job straight to a GRBL machine over USB — no separate CAM package, and no third-party sender. Ten CNC presets ship with it, plus custom bed sizes for anything else.
Free and open source under the MIT licence, signed and notarised for Apple Silicon.
Pocket and plug toolpaths, previewed in 3D before anything is cut
Design · 3D on the web
A concept redesign of a house in Kill Devil Hills, North Carolina, published as a site you can walk through. All three floors and the dock are explorable in first person in the browser — open doors, drawers and cabinets, and move the sun through the day — alongside dimensioned floor plans and a comment thread for feedback on any part of the design.
A concept only: no structural engineering, permitting, or feasibility analysis sits behind it.
The project site — a first-person walkthrough beside dimensioned plans
Design · Build
A marimba designed with AI as a working partner, then built for real. It began as rough notes and a set of plans bought online, refined in software into clear drawings and build directions.
The frame is raw maple lumber, the keys African padouk. All of it cut and carved in the garage.
The finished instrument
One of the drawings it was built from
Interested in work like this? info@tapawingolabs.com