Quick links:
Mobile Office
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Masterlock Cracker
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Spiderbot
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Digital Mold
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Sprout Pencil
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Nitinol Inkjet
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Macro Atoms
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Easy EDM
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Dolphin Bandaids
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Safety Video
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Lemelson Video
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Superconductors
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Kinetic Sculpture
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Solar Death Ray
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Graduate Projects (2011-now)
I'm currently a research assistant at the MIT Media Lab working for Dr. Neri Oxman in the newly formed "Mediated Matter" group. Come by and say hi!
Class Projects
What's school without some classes? In these graduate classes, I've built devices to crack combination padlocks in seconds, cut through steel with office supplies and grow plants from something you wouldn't expect...
Primary Research Projects:
Mobile Office
A fast moving workplace, calls for... a fast moving workstation! The mobile office is fitted with a 10mph remote controlled, motorized base, onboard power storage, and a robotic arm. I use it every day!
Digitally Reconfigurable Surface
Most often compared to a complex, actuated version of the common "pin art" toy, the DRS is a digitally controllable forming surface.
Experimental/Side Projects:
Spiderbot: large scale 3d printer
A lightweight self-contained cable suspended robot, moving similar to a SkyCam in stadiums, for 3d printing structures by attaching to high points in surrounding environments (trees, buildings, etc.)
Cyclopscooter
Using the well known inverted pendulum drive system, a unicycle scooter was made from low-cost/found components. Personal electric scooters seem everywhere these days... but maybe just at MIT.
Future Project Ideas
Just a couple (public) notes to myself. Hit me up if you want to collaborate on anything. Keep your ideas free, sandwiches cheap and conflict expensive.
Machine shop safety video (contest)
Just like it sounds... and we won! Click through to see the Ballad of Bizarro Ben. I think the beard is a good look.
Class Projects
What's school without some classes? In these graduate classes, I've built devices to crack combination padlocks in seconds, cut through steel with office supplies and grow plants from something you wouldn't expect...
Primary Research Projects:
Mobile Office
A fast moving workplace, calls for... a fast moving workstation! The mobile office is fitted with a 10mph remote controlled, motorized base, onboard power storage, and a robotic arm. I use it every day!
Digitally Reconfigurable Surface
Most often compared to a complex, actuated version of the common "pin art" toy, the DRS is a digitally controllable forming surface.
Experimental/Side Projects:
Spiderbot: large scale 3d printer
A lightweight self-contained cable suspended robot, moving similar to a SkyCam in stadiums, for 3d printing structures by attaching to high points in surrounding environments (trees, buildings, etc.)
Cyclopscooter
Using the well known inverted pendulum drive system, a unicycle scooter was made from low-cost/found components. Personal electric scooters seem everywhere these days... but maybe just at MIT.
Future Project Ideas
Just a couple (public) notes to myself. Hit me up if you want to collaborate on anything. Keep your ideas free, sandwiches cheap and conflict expensive.
Machine shop safety video (contest)
Just like it sounds... and we won! Click through to see the Ballad of Bizarro Ben. I think the beard is a good look.
A wintry MIT media lab.
Though this be madness, yet there is method in't. (Hamlet, author unknown)
Though this be madness, yet there is method in't. (Hamlet, author unknown)
