Archive: Of Interest
The of interest section of the home page changes every few days. Old links are organized in categories and archived here.
Curiosities:
- optical illusions
- motion illusions
- rotating illusion
- 2.009 Halloween pumpkins
- smart kids
- big dog v1
- big dog v2
- water use
- wooden mirror
- fractal
- changing behavior
- Rube Goldberg! The cog (wikipedia explains)
- dance around the world!
- death risk calculator
- billboards
- 19 pound baby!
- what's the trick?
- cardboard models
- home depot disaster
- sessions sprockets!
- rocket man!
- alligator vs python!
- blue foam fries, from class
- Monarch emerging from chrysalis
Technology and design:
- cow gas!
- design for assembly
- FMEA analysis
- pirate's code of ethics
- ASME code of ethics (.pdf)
- origami club at MIT
- screening: between the folds, Oct. 20, 26-100, 7 PM
- plastic pipes and air pressure
- Gantt chart software
- tutorial: risk identification tutorial (.pdf) and risk registry (.xls), by Bobby Dyer
- pomegranate phone
- product teardowns!
- wind sculpture: sketch models
- crash test
- symbol design
- tutorial: user studies and observation (.pdf) by Jeremy Vanhill
- Sony walkman
- design strategy
- mechanical jellyfish
- start/stop technology
The project:
- mockup reviewer meeting (.mov)
- mockup review: presentations and feedback
- team review A (certificates required)
- tips for successful projects
- sketch model review results
- team idea areas (3-ideas)!
- idea fair presentations are online
- types of emergencies, from class brainstorming. Group 10 had 59 types!
Class activities:
- team code of conduct example
- fruit specification exercise
- origami ball time estimation data
- hover build
- class teardown results
- video: teardown in 60 seconds
- treasure hunt answers
- treasure hunt scores
Games:
- deep leap
- eyeballing game
- take the idiot
test
- the color test
- ball drop. Use mouse to draw
- react and survive
- test your
reaction time
On creativity:
- creativity, why it matters
- rapid innovation
- creativity cheat sheet
- idea generation: free association
2009 advice:
- how to succeed in
2.009
- advice from 2.009 alumni
About 2.009:
- 2008 sketch model presentations, Microwave Metal Detector, Break Fast
- 2.009,
a graphic novel
- Elika, classroom to showroom
- walking on water! 2008. (.mov 92 MB)
- 6dot, product from 2008.
- 2009 in the news. 6dot!
Final presentations, 2008:
- elika, high tech coffee table (.mov)
- DOTit, electric Braille labeler (.mov)
- Point Guard, basketball return (.mov)
- thermalSmart, forced air grate (.mov)
- Infinite range, sensing cooktop (.mov)
- moduWall, modular wall system (.mov)
- Fire safe microwave (.mov)
