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Robotic Arm class at 3rd Ward

My awesome friend Stefani Bardin, who was the new Director of Education at 3rd Ward, invited me to teach a new class there and this is what we came up with: Here are some steps we’ll be taking in class...

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Why I love teaching at ITP and Shel Silverstein

We’re more than half way through semester at the Interactive Telecommunications Program (ITP) at NYU that I teach at – a two year graduate program that has been described as art school for engineers,...

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Want to participate in a research study?

Where: Leon Root, MD Motion Analysis Laboratory at the Hospital for Special Surgery in New York City Who: Healthy subjects age 20-45 with no injuries in the past 6 months that affect walking.  You must...

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Robotic Hand for Prototype Spacesuit Glove Testing

My lab at NYU-Poly was a subcontractor on a Phase 1 NASA SBIR grant awarded to my friend and former fellow Eyebeam resident Ted Southern of Final Frontier Design. The idea was to create a robotic hand...

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Whitney Museum: Storm Your Brain

Aki Sasamoto, a Whitney Biennial artist and co-director of Culture Push, ran two events at which I got to show people how to make and race mousetrap powered cars. The first was a DOING workshop where I...

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Mobile Solar Charging Station

My good friend and industrial designer extraordinaire, Elliott Montgomery, came up with a design for a mobile solar charging unit for Solar One in the summer of 2009. He asked me to help turn the...

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Battle of the Geeks

In May of 2006 I got to travel to Namibia, Africa, to film a pilot for the show Battle of the Geeks – a BBC/Open University co-production. We had 48 hours to figure out a way to get an egg across the...

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Portable Wearable Movement Tracking System

During my senior year at CMU I participated in honors research in Dr. Yoky Matsuoka’s Neurobotics Lab. I worked with a graduate student of hers on a Portable Wearable Movement Tracking System designed...

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So you want a letter of recommendation…

‘Tis the season for writing reference letters. I get lot of requests for these for reasons that range from graduate school applications to resident assistant and job related inquiries. For the most...

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This Machine Kills Fascists

This project is being developed in collaboration with artists Ashley Pigford and Troy Richards. Inspired by a statement written on Woody Guthrie’s guitar, This Machine Kills Fascists (TMKF) is a...

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