This interdisciplinary undergraduate/graduate course that exposes students to “open source science”, “commons-based peer production” and to undertake some “maker” service learning outreach.
Black Lodge Design Lab’s Cellulose Nano insulation material is a student project developed through the course, Experimental Materials Lab, in the Product Design program at the University of Oregon.
The “Making is Thinking” course focused on the process of making through an applied, client-based design/build project. Students designed, prototyped and constructed 32 pieces of finished furniture.
Each year for the past five years, sophomore engineering students at James Madison University work to design and build human-powered vehicles for a community member with needs very different from their own as a result of cerebral palsy.
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.