Archive: Of Interest
The of interest section of the home page changes every few days. Old links are organized on this page by the date they were archived.
December 10
- popular names visualization!
- Tufte information visualization
- visualization
- Dyson assembly visualization
- information is beautiful
- time lapse from space
- storyboard template (.pdf)
December 3
- ask for $75k and get $1.5M
- crowdsourced funding platforms
- kickstarter
hardware challenges
- kickstarter delivery failures
November 30
- death by powerpoint. 13 common mistakes.
- Amos Winter: TEDx
- 6 design innovation patterns
November 25
- thanksgiving patents
- thanksgiving
- time lapse from space
- dog day afternoon
- perpetual energy waster
- a new soccer ball
November 20
- Ames room! Make one
- what's the trick?
- optical illusions
- motion illusions
- rotating illusion
- Gestalt psychology
November 12
- gorilla + banana (.mov)
- short circuit (.mov)
- inattentional blindness
- awareness test
November 9
- workplace safety: my last day at home depot
- powerpoint: less is more
- tic-tac-toe
- how projects work
Product costing tutorial (slides)
November 4
- 2.009 pumpkin gallery
- doodles you'll never see
- lockable mailbox
November 2
- example assembly review
pink team 2011 (.mov)
- example assembly review
orange team 2011 (.mov)
- Solidworks topdown design (.pdf)
- red square. Can you survive?
- monarch chrysalis
- wooden mirror
- timescapes
October 26
- mockup presentations and compiled instructor feedback are available!
- team codes of conduct!
- YoWup! (.mov)
- critique: the good, the bad, and the ugly (.mov)
- space dive, another take
- 99 life hacks
October 22
- two headed snakes
- pirate's code of ethics, wikipedia
- ASME code of ethics (.pdf)
- B school ethics
- piracy rates
October 19
- cardboard bike
- origami time multipliers
- Japanese origami
October 18
- Gantt chart software
- fruit specs!
- space dive
- jet man
- about jet man
- the tech: target practice p.10
- the results of the team review are available (certificates required)
October 16
- the homer
- house of quality
- Lemelson-MIT program (.pdf)
- freerunning machine
October 15
- on being a communication instructor
- teardown in 60 seconds (.mov)
- 2.009 project success factors
- tips for digital communication
October 12
- yeti
- the popinator
- big dog v1
- big dog v2
- singing robot
October 6
- product teardown results
- how projects work
- sheep art
- knock detecting lock
- water mellon slingshot
October 2
Monday, October 1, 7 PM:
- Information officer workshop
- SI communication workshop
- microcontroller tutorial
September 29
-
changing behavior. Fun theory
- take the idiot
test
- ride the bus!
- how to identify plastics
- symbols for plastic types
- part cost estimation guides (certs required)
- sketch model wind sculpture
- cardboard cameras
- cardboard models
September 26
- slides from the portfolio tutorial
- Solidworks bootstrap. Bring your laptop with SW installed
-
Design using sourced parts, build and test day
September 24
- an unsuccessful idea pitch
- font size vs. distance for a typical sans serif font
- 10 tips for 2.009
- theme reveal
- ball drop. Use mouse to draw
- the Northwest passage
September 21
- user study tutorial (.pdf) by designer Jeremy Vanhill. You can contact Jeremy with questions.
- portfolio tutorial, 7:15 PM on Thursday evening in 3-370
September 19
- treasure hunt results
- Sony Walkman
September 17
- 2.009 balloon towers (.mov)
- 6 design innovation patterns
- collective intelligence in groups
- test your reaction time!
- Lockheed Martin innovation contest
September 14
- idea fair: abstracts and slides
- creativity cheat sheet (.pdf)
- group brainstorming tutorial
September 11
- American gothic
- Sprout on kickstarter
- asteroids
- creativity, why it matters
- the creativity crisis
- sketching tutorials (up to 2 pt)
September 7
- HelmetHub in the news
- 2011 final presentation, 3 minute compendium (.mov)
- flashback: 2.009 project gallery
- 2.009,
a graphic novel
- Elika, classroom to showroom, continuing a 2.009 project.
- optional sketching tutorial, Friday afternoon 4-5 PM in 32-144. This will help with the brainstorming deliverable.