A speculative design instrument that allows the user to feel the electromagnetic signals that are given off by power and wireless communications technology.

The purpose of my project was to replicate the more comfortable feeling of drinking out of a bottle for users, particularly for canned beverages, such as beer or soft drinks. The design of the project also serves to protect canned drinks from potential spillage.

I created a dual functional tea bag holder. The tea bag holder attaches to the lip of the cup and allows the tea bag not to fall in by having the string of the bag wrap around the holder. The second functionality of this product is that it can rest on the table allowing the user to place their teabag on top of the holder. This cute and functional tea bag holder can be used for various tea bag sizes and comes in a variety of colors.

A bathroom organizer themed around the ocean and exploration.

The goal of this project was to build experience heat forming acrylic, specifically learning to work with curves in more than one axis.

The goal of this project was to make a sleeve which added functionality to the water bottle. Making the user (me) less likely to forget it and drink water more often.

My goal was to create a shelf to fit over the radiator in my room. The idea was to have a shelf that attaches directly to the radiator with no screws or fasteners to the wall or floor. I wanted to make the shelf minimal and match the aesthetic of both my room and the radiator the piece sits on. The shelf is cut all out of 1/4" plywood with a laser cutter, with laser engraving all across the top of the shelf in a topographic map pattern.

A laser-cut clock designed to look like and evoke the organic beauty of a succulent plant.

A project that focuses on resisting the urges to secretly follow ex-partners on social media

The goal of this project was to create a clock using laser cut wood to commemorate my little sister scoring her thousandth point in basketball.

The goal of this project was to laser cut a clock. I wanted my clock to be relatively easy to read and aesthetic in shape.

This project uses digital fabrication/maker techniques in order to explore how to recreate personal and lost objects in peoples' lives and asks the question - what makes a memento important to us?

Hi my name is Jiaqi Zou and I love rapid prototyping. Using simple circuits, 3D printing technology, laser cutting and 3D modeling software to make really cool desktop-decorations that one can put in the dorm. I am able to ideate and manufacture pretty much anything in my mind with careful design and ideation. If you are interested in what I'm doing, feel free to reach out to me. If you are interested in taking the course, please take a look at Professor Touretzky's website!

A cheesy giant monster fight film reminiscent of the Japanese and American giant monster movie genre of the 1950s-1960s.

Memttoo is a memory tattoo that lets its users recall and re-experience digital memories while connecting them to memories stored in the user's mind. All of a person’s memories are then stored in the cloud which means they can connect and display their memories from any available server to anyone they choose, if they want to share

We wanted to foster more conversations between the Pittsburgh community, visitors, and the hill district community. Memorialize the community space, items and people who were displaced, through a mixed media light display and projection technology triggered by tiles.

This is a project proposal to create a skirt, using laser cutting, soft circuitry, machine, and hand sewing skills developed in this course. It will be designed with inspiration from the New York City skyline.

Create an attractive, minimalist clock relying on the progressive shape of a nautilus to translate the passage of time into physical mass (out of acrylic, using a laser cutter).

Emoto Pod is an interactive exhibit that allows users to sit down for 5 minutes under a projected "waterfall" of shapes that cascade down an overhead screen. With the aid of a Leap Motion device, the user can virtually run their hands under the projected waterfall. It is an immersive experience, which is experienced not only visually but also manually.

Final project for 15-294: Rapid Prototyping Technologies (F15), in which we should design and fabricate something interesting that utilizes some of the prototyping processes taught in class.

We created a set of robotic racers based on the mechanism of pop-up books. These robots are low cost, easy to mass produce, and act as the corner stone in our ongoing exploration into pop-up robotics. To culminate this leg of our research we organised an underground robot racing competition.

To create a responsive origami tessellation to alter the tempo of natural light in an environment, thereby affording a slower walking pace for the occupants of that space. The presence of a person below the structure triggers a slow movement, so if someone is in a rush, then they will miss what is happening right above their heads. This structure prompts people to take the time to slow down, look up, and observe what is going on around them.

We wanted to create a machine that both explored the “organicness” (or lack thereof), movement, heaviness, and materiality of metal using chainmail while exposing the “inner workings” of the machine.