In a Next-Make event, we made a speaker that varies with resistance. The "resistor" used was simply a strip of graphite drawn on a piece of paper. The resistance changes with the length and width of the strip, a picture can be drawn and thus different sounds will be heard.
For a friend's birthday, I made a small name plate that goes on her desk while holding a pen. I made a jig for bending the acrylic which allows me to make similar name plates for my close friends.
For DME 2012, I made a faux scavenger hunt where I made a prize for anyone who could find my picture on campus. I made the entire assembly in two days.
Sandy is the administrative assistant in the Office of Engineering Outreach Programs at MIT. She likes to knit and asked me to make her a nice looking box to hold her yarn. She asked me to work on it my freshman year, but because of school and other projects, I never got around to really working on it until the summer of my junior year. After five design iterations, this is what resulted.
This is version 2 of the Next House Party Lighting System. This was designed with mass production in mind; rather than working with wood, NHPLS v2 is made from laser cutting acrylic. Another interesting feature is in the UV/Strobes, which involves heating and bending the acrylic using a jig that I designed. The RGB Panels are currently held together with acrylic glue, but hopefully I can one day design snap-fits where the parts interlock with each other.
After comparing our music-synced lighting systems, my friends and I decided to put together a lighting system for a party in Next House. Credit to some photos to Scott Bezek*, Loneoceans Ggy**, and Austin Brinson***.
This is a project that I decided to do over Thanksgiving Break. I found it here on Instructables. It’s a work in progress.
EL Wire (Electroluminescent wire) is essentially wire that is coated with a phosphor that lights up when a high frequency (2000-4000 Hz) AC current is applied to it. You can think of it as having a glow like neon, but with the flexibility of wire.
At the end of MITES I decided to make keychains for the staff and the Engineering Design students. The keychains were made on the OMAX Waterjet out of aluminum and were polished to a shine. I also got a bunch of dog-tag lanyards so people could wear it as a necklace.
This is a project that uses 2 AA batteries to power a USB mobile device such as an iPod. The circuit effectively amplifies the voltage from 3V (2x1.5V) to 5V. It’s a work in progress.
In the IAP of my sophomore year, I took a class at the Hobby Shop called “Make Your Own Electric Guitar.” After 2 months of work, I ended up with a beautiful- looking, beautiful-sounding, electric guitar. It was photographed by Popular Mechanics, but to my knowledge it has not yet been published.
The Jenga Pistol is a project that I took on the summer of my Freshman year at MIT. As a MechE, I wanted to design and build something cool. I was looking around on YouTube and I saw a man by the name of Matthias Wandel showing off a device he created called the Jenga Pistol.
This is a mouse that I made out of an Altoids tin and an old computer mouse. I got the idea from Instructables, but I made mine much better.
Freshman year, me and a bunch of friends (under the leadership of Aaron Ramirez) decided to make a RepRap. A RepRap is a bare-bones, open-source 3D printer. With teamwork and Aaron’s dedication, we made a 3D printer work in time for CPW.