Roof Planting

Planting boxes transform roofs into pleasant spaces and reduce summer heat gain inside the building. These boxes expand the standard rectangle into the maker's initials which are overgrown in the summer but visable in the winter.

iPod Speaker Box

For less cost and a more personalized listening device speakers were wired into a laser cut plexiglass box. Lights added for penny's more.

Rewire and Reuse

New musical effects created by rewireing dicarded keyboard and adding control knob.

Drum Interface

Copper contacts with foam spacers act as pressure sensors for cardboard drumming machine wired to computer software.

Robotic Magnet Arm

Wiring a breadboard to two servos the arm has two degrees of freedom. Additional design strengthened the structural stability. Salim

Plywood Bed Frame

InkScape computer drawings scaled down for laser cut prototype. Frame includes bookshelf at foot. Ashley

Blinking Plate Sensor

Touch sensor activates custom made LED lighting sequence. Malik

Bird House

Wood parts drafted with Google SketchUp and sent to laser cutter. Donte McCray

Morphing Mass

Idea for a material that changes shape via radio signal. GELgothic.com

Polyhedra Models

Cardboard and metal tube models of regular polyhedra used to study best layout for upcoming project. Models originally made for Professor Arthur Loeb's "Design Science" class in the Carpenter Center, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1998.

Woven Home

Following the patterns used by basket weavers, long rolls of bamboo mat or even thin plywood could be used for quickly produced enclosures.

Electric Light

Thomas Edison sometimes used a simple sketch to explain his idea. February 13, 1880.