This interdisciplinary undergraduate/graduate course that exposes students to “open source science”, “commons-based peer production” and to undertake some “maker” service learning outreach.
The Trinity Firefighting Competition is a robotics competition in which participating teams build autonomous, maze-navigating robots capable of finding a fire and putting it out.
The High Altitude Research Platform (HARP) was developed to allow pre-freshman STEM majors in a summer bridge program an opportunity to design and construct a near-space research craft.
The Acrobot is an underactuated robot that senses its own position and responds by moving its arm back and forth to excite its body dynamics into expressive movements.