Free State Laboratories

Hi, and welcome to my corner of the internet!

I’m a mechanical engineer with special interests in structural mechanics, robotics, controls, and high-performance numerical software development. On this site, you’ll find information on my current projects.

Feel free to contact me at ryan@freestatelabs.com. My code is hosted on GitHub.

Current Projects

SHEPHERD

Open-source mechanical FEA that just works.

topgun

Teaching myself high-performance software engineering techniques.

In Maintenance

Wired.jl

A highly optimized Biot-Savart law integrator for arbitrary geometries in 3D space.

Past Projects

rockets

A 2D, 3DOF simulation of landing rockets using thrust-vectoring directed by an optimal controller.

Wired.jl Benchmarks

Algorithm development for Wired.jl, written in Julia, C, Fortran, and Python.
I’ve learned a lot since I did this project in early 2024, and it is very much superceded by Wired.jl.