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 guitar-playing robot that performs traditional American folk music on a
Continue reading‘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 part, I am happy to write them. If
Continue readingDuring 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 to track limb movements accurately and continuously
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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 concept into a reality, and
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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 taught a small
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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 capable of systematically
Continue readingWhere: 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 be able to walk independently
Continue readingWe’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, and engineering school for artists. I’ve
Continue readingMy 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
Continue readingI was invited by the awesome Jeremy Blum to give a short talk to high school students in the BlueStamp Engineering Program being held at Ramaz Upper School in NYC. The goal of the guest speakers is to spend 20
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