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    • Planar robot
    • Class projects >
      • 2.131, Advanced Instrumentation and Measurement
      • 2.810, Manufacturing Processes and Systems
      • MAS.S62 How To Make Something That Makes Almost Anything
      • 2.744 Product Design
      • 2.75 Precision Machine Design
      • 2.00B Toy Design Team Instructing
    • Digitally Reconfigurable Mold
    • Experimental projects >
      • Big Foam Legos
      • Mobile Office
      • Cyclopscooter
      • Spiderbot
      • Macro Atom Additive Manufacturing
      • Shape Memory Inkjet
      • Superconductive Powder Purification Device
    • Contest videos >
      • Machine Shop Safety Video
      • Lemelson-MIT application
  • Undergrad
    • Class projects >
      • 2.00B, Toy Design
      • 2.007, Design and Manufacturing I
      • 2.72, Elements of Mechanical Design
      • 2.009, Product Engineering Processes
      • 2.671, Go Forth and Measure
      • 2.97, Designapalooza
      • 2.12, Intro to Robotics
    • The Daily Blunderbuss, Comics
    • Discover Mechanical Engineering (DME)
    • Undergraduate competitions >
      • Bad Ideas Competition
      • MADFAB, Furniture Design Competition
      • MASLAB, Robotics competition
      • Lobby 7 Design Competition
    • Pharmaceutical Filtration/UROP
    • Other random projects
  • H School
    • Trebuchets/Cannons
    • Solar Concentrator
    • Superconductors
    • Other camp projects
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Bad Ideas Competition

An annual event hosted by the East Campus dormitory, the Bad Ideas Competition is committed to giving undergrads lots of money to do dumb stuff over January term (IAP).  It's actually surprising to see how many "bad ideas" actually turn out great!