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 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.