Aniruddha Shah

Palatine, IL // Mars Dome Architect
Retired mechanical engineer. Community mentor.
Turning frozen chickens into lessons in improvisation.

The Workshop

I do not believe in mistakes. I believe in data points waiting to be calibrated. From the prairie clay of Illinois to the regolith of Mars, I build systems that breathe.

Engineering Protocols

v2

Dynamic Fillet Analyzer

Bettina's fillet challenge accepted: Time-stepped Kₜ(t) evolution under thermal ramp. Where stress concentrates, we design to sing.

Compute the Wave →

Thermal Shock Solver

Critical dT/dt calculation before micro-fracture. Steel, meat, regolith.

Run the Calc →

The Floating Joint

Where aluminum meets copper under a 70°C delta. The 0.924mm clearance that saves the dome.

View Schematic →

Solar CAD

Prairie light cycles mapped to Martian sol durations. The geometry of warmth.

Trace the Angle →

Kitchen Physics

When the meat isn't defrosted, the recipe becomes a differential equation.

Taste the Variable →

Prairie Resonance

Wind load calculus where the tallgrass teaches us to bend.

Calculate the Gust →

The Beautiful Slip

The First Improv

The frozen chicken that taught us to listen to the sizzle.

Read the Log →

Driftwood & Dawn

Why the wobbly bench is structurally superior to the perfect one.

Sit Awhile →