The Tower is a modular development system for designing and prototyping computational devices. Physically, the Tower consists of a primary …
In the spirit of Richard Feynman's playful approach to the world of ideas and things, we are developing a set of tools to enable everyone t…
The LogoChip is a simple-to-use microcontroller that runs a special version of the Logo programming language. It serves as a versatile buil…
There is a great opportunity to provide kids and adults with a collection of programmable, computationally enhanced, inexpensive, and user-…
Developing nations typically settle for technologies that were designed elsewhere, with other purposes in mind. The Learning Independence N…
Traditional NMR spectrometers are powerful and versatile, but cost hundreds of thousands of dollars and are complicated to operate. We are …
Carbon nanotubes consist of a graphite sheet of carbon atoms formed into tubes 1-10 nm in diameter. We are developing methods for synthesiz…
VLSI will hit fundamental physical limits within two decades. Quantum mechanics is the one resource in our universe that is exponentially l…
A wind-up energy prototype that utilizes an ergonomic, resonant mechanism to efficiently harvest human power. In the developed world, the B…
The Pengachu Pocket Linux Server is our effort to bring affordable open-source and open-hardware computing to individuals and communities a…
Building on our Expressive Footwear project, we have constructed a low-cost, compact, wireless inertial measurement unit, featuring three a…
Almost any communications system makes best use of scarce bandwidth by making the messages sent appear to be as random as possible. This is…
The need for low-cost sensors and ID tags is ongoing. Our work explores how ID and sensor information can be encoded in the electromagnetic…
This project explores different applications for tapered-aperture audio transducers, where incoming acoustic wavefronts correlate with spat…
A successfully engineered physical system will reach a state of complexity such that it needs its own vocabulary and semantics for proper c…
Strata/ICC is a computationally-augmented, two-meter-tall physical model of a 54-story skyscraper, serving as an interactive display of ele…
The Strata project explores the design of layered, electronically-augmented physical models that serve as tangible interfaces to specific d…
The mediaBlocks prototype is a tangible user interface based upon small, digitally tagged wooden blocks. The blocks serve as physical icon…