Electronic windchimesAccelerometer-driven electronic windchimeswith onboard filter electronics and flat piezospeakers in laser cut acrylic casing (two of six);These attached to a larger set of custom elec-tronics which converted the movement of eachchime to a unique tone.

(see attached . final report for circuit diagrams)

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Three-dimensional mold of a bellA model for the casting of an aluminum belldesigned to ring with a tone of ~Hz (A);Printed in ABS plastic on a three-dimensionalplotter from a Solidworks file.

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Custom printed circuit boards for (a) connect-ing the sensor modules described at left to acomputer, and (b) monitoring the activity ofthe sensors.

(see attached circuit diagrams)

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One of custom presence sensor modules foran interactive fountain at the Christian ScienceHall of Ideas in Boston, designed while em-ployed at Small Design Firm, Inc. in spring; These send digital data when a personwalks in front of the fountain to a computer incontrol of animations projected on the water’ssurface, via the data bus described at right.

(see attached circuit diagrams)

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Distance-sensitive sound devicePrototype for the Sound Portraits project, aninteractive sound device meant to be hung on thewall like a framed picture; A microcontrollermeasures the distance to an approaching indi-vidual and increases the gain of an audio clip asthey near.

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A spread from the edition of Technique,designed in part with code written in the MITScheme programming language.

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Cover design for the edition of Technique,the annual of MIT; I served as Design Editorfor the publication in and currently sharethe position with another student in productionof the book.

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Visual arts prize exhibition cardPostcard designed as an announcement of the winners of the Schnitzer Prize in thevisual arts.

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Logo for www.mit.eduAn image published repeatedly as the logographic of the top-level MIT webpage; Cre-ated to announce the availability of the edition of MIT Technique.

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Renderings of a model constructed in Autocadof the Wassily chair designed by Marcel Breuer.

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Poster design for an exhibition held by theMIT List Visual Arts Center; The project wasa collaboration with Au Design Collective, astudent group at the Institute of which I amfounding member.

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Mechanical drawingA scale drawing intended to demonstrate thebasic size, shape and operation of a capacitiveswitch designed for an interactive museumexhibit while employed at Small Design Firm,Inc.

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Schematic for interactive exhibitionSchematic timeline intended to demonstrate tothe client the operation of an interactivemuseum exhibit designed while employed atSmall Design Firm, Inc; Includes the sequenceof events from triggering of inputs to theresponse of the display.

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Plaque designed for permanent display on thethird floor of the MIT Media Lab as a descrip-tion of an ongoing project related to thecuration of Lab research work.

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ArtworkDigital artwork incorporating photographs ofmyself and text from Machiavelli’s ThePrince, a critical essay and a computer pro-gramming manual; Published in Rune, a literarymagazine at MIT.

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Publication cover designCover design for Pinup, a publication of theMIT Department of Architecture, for an articlediscussing the effect of the WTO attacks onthe field of design.

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Design of a party announcement poster weav-ing fabric with text.

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