Bike Light Mount I’ve had trouble finding a strong enough bike light mount to survive Boston roads, so one day I decided to make my own. This took about 2-3...
Hi, I'm Richard Moyer
I am a mechanical engineer with past experience in product design, precision machine design, and high-volume manufacturing. I am currently enrolled in MIT’s LGO program – a dual degree business and engineering program focused on developing the next generation of engineering leadership in manufacturing and operations.
I grew up on a farm in rural south-western Virginia, went to MIT for my undergrad, and have since worked overseas in oil and gas, designed surgical and medical devices at 2 Boston-based firms, and designed and built manufacturing equipment at sites in Massachusetts and Minnesota.
Besides engineering, I have worked as an EMT, arborist, and butcher, I’ve worked for the United Nations, a water/sewer utility, and Cirque du Soleil. I grew up making maple syrup with my family, tanning my own leather, and preserving fruit, nuts, meats, and mushrooms from the family farm. I still garden when I can, gather wild foods from the forest, and practice the culinary arts as a way to explore the world around me.
Projects
Ball Race
Ball Race This is a copy of a ball race I saw one day at a career fair from a 3d printing firm. I was told it was a “waste...
Keyboard I/O
“Flame wars” - campus wide chaotic email chains - are an integral part of the MIT experience. They begin when some unlucky soul forgets to BCC all the dorms and...
Mask Material Tester
Homemade Mask Material Selection With the current pandemic, shortages of PPE, and growing mandates to wear masks in public, many people are turning to making their own. However, when my...
MIT ID Reader
Background MIT’s 6.002, Circuits and Electronics, has a lab where they teach students how to build a radio circuit to read their ID cards. Since I took the class in...
Murakami Yo-Yos
Class 2.008 is known as the yo-yo class at MIT. The registrar calls it Design and Manufacturing II, and we learned about mass manufacturing and process control in the context...
Hydrogen Engine
Background In collaboration with the US Navy, the MIT Lincoln Laboratory has been researching reacting pelletized aluminum fuel with water as an alternative power source for long duration underwater missions....
Micro Combustor
Thermophotovoltaic Energy Conversion This project - now Mesodyne - was based on a photonic material that when heated, only emitted blackbody radiation over a very narrow frequency band. This could...
Work Hardening Knives
Work Hardening Work hardening, also known as cold forging, is a process where metals are deformed without heating to increase their hardness. On an atomic level, this process increases the...
Tornado the Robot
Game Board This class was based off of designing robots to score on a game board, and is basically the foundation for the FIRST robotics competitions. This year, our game...