About Me

About

My name is Trey DeWolf. I was born and raised in Durham, North Carolina, where I was homeschooled until college. For as long as I can remember, I’ve loved building things, anything and everything, from tree houses to scale World War II remote controlled planes to go karts. Because I have severe dyslexia, I’ve always learned better through hands on projects than in a classroom, and I wasn’t planning on attending college until I found out about the American College of the Building Arts (ACBA). I spent four years there and made some of the best memories of my life. ACBA gave me the hands on learning experience that I excel in.

Woodworking is where I applied my skills throughout college, but those skills reach well beyond it. I excel at spatial reasoning and at carrying a new idea from design all the way to a successful finished result. I also have a strong intuition for what will and will not work in the real world before I ever start testing. That has carried over into many of my hobbies, from RC aircraft to CNC machines, a few of which I describe below.

Aerospace and RC Aircraft

For over a decade I have designed, built, and flown fixed wing, flying wing, and multirotor aircraft, mostly my own designs focused on efficiency and long endurance. My methods are largely self taught and span foam board, balsa, and composites including fiberglass, Kevlar, and carbon fiber, plus 3D printing in a range of materials.

Mechanical Design and Fabrication

I design in Onshape and Fusion 360 and treat 3D printing as a manufacturing tool, not just a prototyping one. For my senior capstone table, every piece is curved, so I designed and printed jigs with reference faces and tolerances near a hundredth of an inch, then fed measurements of real stock back into the CAD model so later parts compensated for earlier error. I also designed and built a core XY CNC pen plotter from scratch, including the electronics and CAM workflow, as a prototype for a larger CNC router.

Systems and Construction

With a classmate, I designed and built a tiny house to live in during college, sourcing and integrating windows, plumbing, heating, and a custom hardwood countertop. I have more than five years of robotics experience through FTC and FRC.

Credentials

American College of the Building Arts, timber framing, May 2026. Compagnonnage trained in traditional joinery. FAA Part 107 certified remote pilot. MIG welding and OSHA 10 certified.