LED Space Helmet a Hit

(air swishing)

(melodic electronic music)

I would say I just want to make things, you know,

but that's what everybody wants.

I love seeing what I can make.

Can I make this?

Can I make it happen?

Is it possible?

Engineering runs in my family, and if I'm just idle

for too long, I look around at the supplies around me

and think, what can I make out of these?

I moved to San Francisco about four months ago,

and that was right after getting my master's degree

in mechanical engineering from the University of Michigan.

Within a couple weeks of moving here,

I was helping Ben Cohen, of Ben & Jerry's,

to make this roller coaster StampMobile project.

That was my first, what I felt like,

was a San Francisco experience.

With the space helmet, I didn't initially make it

with the intent of putting it on Etsy,

so I worked out a price,

and I wasn't even expecting any sales.

I just put it on Etsy for fun,

just to, you know, to share it with more people,

because that's what I initially made it for anyway,

was just to, to share this,

this thing that I wanted to make.

It actually ended up being really great.

I have already shipped out two, and I got pictures back

from one of the customers, and she and her husband

absolutely love it.

Most of the stuff that I make, I give to other people,

but every once in a while I make something for myself.