I took a class with visiting professor Chuck Hoberman (of the Hoberman Sphere toy), Erik Demaine, and Daniela Rus this semester, called Mechanical Invention Through Computation. It was pretty fun. You can read the lectures online, and I think open courseware is going to make videos available soon.

Test flights in Briggs field.

In a group with James Coleman aka the bandit and Matt Arbesfeld aka boy genius, I built a series of expanding and collapsing kites based on a preliminary tetrahedral design by Alexander Graham Bell. You should come see some of our work at CSAIL at the opening tomorrow:

Join us for an exciting exhibition of student projects that demonstrate new mechanical designs and inventive behavior through physical models, interactive software applications, and mathematics.

If you can’t make it, we’ll probably document our work at some point.