Products:
Consumer electronics, accessibility, entertainment (Video & Audio)
Virtual reality/augmented reality, Web Development,
Education, Social Impact, SCUBA Diving & Underwater Design & Testing
AMAZON kindle
Hannah Lewbel was the Senior Technical Lead for many of the early Amazon Kindle products including the Kindle DX, Kindle 3/Keyboard, and the original Kindle Fire. She was the Senior Display Lead for the original Kindle Paperwhite, and Hardware Systems Engineer post-launch on the first Kindle e-reader product (Fiona). Hannah's responsibilities for these projects included strong technical leadership and technical development from concept through high-volume production stages, with systems architecture, schematic design & BOMs, systems validation and debug, and technical documentation.
Hannah was the Audio Systems Manager for 7 Kindle Fire tablets making key architectural and feature decisions and driving innovation in Amazon's audio platform, along with hiring and developing a world-class audio hardware team.
Hannah's Kindle products have been loved and used by millions of readers globally.
Over twenty thousand Kindle e-readers have gone into Worldreader's children's literacy school and library programs globally. As of 2016, Worldreader had over 6 million global readers on mobile devices. (Images © Worldreader)
Apple mac Systems
Hannah was a Systems Engineer in Apple's Mac Systems team. She had core design and testing responsibilities for the original Apple Mac Mini and iMac G5.
Element labs - Versa Tube
Hannah had core engineering design responsibilities on the next generation of Element Labs' Versa Tube products - a modular video pixel display, each built with RGB LEDs and a custom light diffuser. When linked together, Versa Tube created amazing video walls used in architectural installations, and entertainment backdrops - including sets for bands, such as Coldplay's Speed of Sound music video, and the Red Hot Chili Peppers' Stadium Arcadium tour set (example song Dani California). It was also used in the Victoria Secret fashion show 2006.
Red Hot Chili Peppers - Stadium Arcadium tour 2006-2007
Pressure drop - jukedock
Hannah designed the first architecture, schematic, and board layout for Pressure Drop's JukeDock, an iPod dock with 4 light modes, video out (S-Video and Composite), audio out through RCA, and USB 2.0
JukeDock Controls & Connectors
JukeDock 2006
Wearables & IoT
Smart wristband payment processor for Pebble watch (Electrical, Sensors, Mechanical, Industrial Design)
Product concepts for networked reflective display panels (Electrical, Sensors, Mechanical, Software)
Accessibility
Wheelchair computer-based communication system for well-known physicist and cosmologist (Industrial & Mechanical Design)
Biotech electrical and mechanical stimulus device for diabetic neuropathy (Electrical, Sensors, Mechanical, Industrial Design, Software)
Kindle device and accessories accessibility (Displays, Fonts, Audio, Hardware, Mechanical, Manufacturing, Software)
Font and text accessibility testing for web and mobile reading applications (Software)
Web Development
Wage Justice is an accessible and responsive Python Flask web app that helps consumers support employers who simultaneously treat their customers well and adhere to ethical legal wage practices for their employees. It displays data from Google Businesses side-by-side with wage violations on that business from the U.S. Department of Labor.
Education website UI/UX and corporate branding redesign for children's instructional video content
SCUBA DIVING & UNDERWATER EQUIPMENT DESIGN & TESTING
Design for folding modular travel fins for lightweight transport
Underwater Modeling for Dive Publications:
Lonely Planet: Diving & Snorkeling Cozumel - underwater model (and photo credit) (2006)
Content editor for "Diving Bonaire" book (Kindle edition) (2012)
Equipment Testing (personal):
Dive Computers (Oceanic, Suunto, Atomic, Shearwater)
BCDs (Seaquest, Aqua Lung)
Emergency: Strobes & Lights (Firefly, Firefly2, Ikelite, Underwater Kenetics, Princeton Tec, GLO-TOOB), flags, tubas
Wetsuits & Skins: Aeroskin, Henderson, O'Neill, Aqua Lung
Underwater Photography
Cameras: Canon G9, Sony RX100
Housings: Sea&Sea, RecSea