Pip and the Skyward Isles
A 3D platformer in the old cartridge style. Ten sunstones across four floating islands.
Jackson Teitelbaum
Computer engineering at the University of Michigan
I'm Jackson. I study computer engineering at Michigan, and I'm happiest when something I made leaves the screen. A print comes off the bed. A robot moves. A game actually runs. Here's what I've built so far.
Print with Purpose
Models you read with your hands.
Design it.
Every model starts in CAD. It has to make sense by touch, so details get exaggerated instead of copied.
Print it.
Then it's hours on the printer, one thin layer at a time, and a lot of fixing printers.
Ship it.
Through our partner See3D, the models reach blind schools and organizations across the country. Self-funded from day one.
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Card-dealing robot arm
It deals so nobody has to.
A motorized arm built from custom 3D printed and laser-cut parts. Modeled it, fabricated it, wired it, coded it, then watched it fling cards across the room until it didn't.
CAD3D printingLaser cuttingRaspberry PiPythonSoldering
Drag across it. Go ahead.
JT Pressure Washing
Started with free jobs and flyers.
Nobody hires a random kid with a pressure washer, so the first few driveways were free. Then flyers, a Facebook page, and eventually friends with their own equipment so we could take on more houses around South Orange and Maplewood.
Popsicle-stick bridges
Built to not collapse.
Architecture and Engineering Club, 2023 to 2026. Bridges and buildings out of popsicle sticks and recycled materials. By year two I was buying the materials and teaching new members how to build.
Games
Stuff I made for fun.
Every one of these is playable right here.
Floppy Bars
Ragdoll gymnastics with real physics. Swing, flip, probably faceplant.
Voidrunner
Arcade dodger. Skim rocks for near-miss combos and outlast the Void Sentinel.
Threadlight
Survival builder. String light across the dark before the shades chew through it.
Next drop
Something new is in the works.
Coming soon
Room for whatever I build next.
Off the clock, it adds up.
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About me.
From South Orange, New Jersey. Now in Ann Arbor, on MRover's electrical team, and slowly getting through Calc 3.
Fencing
Four years at Columbia High School. Starter junior and senior year, captain senior year, which mostly meant running drills and coaching younger fencers.
Teaching
I teach kids' classes in robotics, coding, and chemistry at Genius Gems, and I've tutored middle schoolers with the Achieve Foundation since 2022.
Volunteering
Through Jewish Family Service of MetroWest I help an elderly couple with errands, and I'm their unofficial IT department.
Right now
- SchoolFirst semester at Michigan
- MRoverJoined electrical hardware, picking my first project
- BuildingThis website