Chase Molden

. This chair needed to sit on stage during pre-show fully assembled but would be taken apart and then reassembled by the actors into Sweeney's barber chair during the opening song.

. These are the new pieces that were attached to the base of the chair from the previous photo turning it into Sweeney's barber chair. The assembly of these pieces needed to be done in 38 seconds while the actors were singing.

This is the mechanism that allowed a briefcase to sprout legs with the flick of the actors wrist. Hidden inside the body of the briefcase the steel legs folded up and were concealed behind a set of doors on the bottom.

This shows the briefcase in its folded and open stages. The latches could be opened and props were held and removed from the upper part of the briefcase.

This is the prototype form of a rig that gave the appearance of the actor missing his head. It needed to be specially balanced in order to make it easier to both mount, ride and dismount a horse while wearing it.

An action shot of the finished project. The actor was unencumbered by the rig allowing enough motion to even fight while on horseback.

This is the inner workings to a motorized spider that was built for the Renaissance Faire's Halloween themed weekends. One motor was mounted in the back and allowed the arms to raise and drop while the motor in the front allowed the mandibles to move.

Front angle of the motorized spider. The two front arms lifted about 60 degrees while at a faster speed the mandibles moved up and down opposite one another.

This was built for the Renaissane Faire's Halloween themed weekends. The skeleton stirred the cauldron slowly as machines hidden inside of it produced haze and bubbles that were filled with fog as well as the up lighting.

Built for a production of "Beauty and the Beast" for the Barter Theatre. A log was placed on one end of the conveyor belt and as it traveled through it was swapped out inside with a turned table leg. The invention also contained moving gears on the side as well as a pyro charge all activated by the levers on top.

This was built for a production of "Beauty and the Beast" at the Barter Theatre. Shown is the mechanism that was able to remotely drop individual petals from the rose. It was built using pull servos, brake cables from a bicycle shop, as well as some left over hammers from a piano.

This is the outside view of the rose. As you can see all of the mechanics are hidden inside the stand.