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Type of participation: Regular (weekly or biweekly meetings)

University/School/Institution: Stanford

School or Department (if applicable): Mechanical Engineering MS

Research or personal interests: Robotic toys as the accessible interactive 'other' and gateways to learning

Comments (if you're an expert in any "making" technology, say it here!)): I have some Arduino experience, I'm pretty handy in the PRL, and I'm 'expert level' with designing laser-cut assembies. I'm shipping out 300 TJ* Animatronic puppets this summer! (http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/jeffkessler/tj-an-animatronic-p...)

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Duplicated Object: Tongue Burn Prevention Coffee Lid

Posted on April 20, 2012 at 1:47pm 0 Comments 0 Favorites

I had a Newton-esque moment of inspiration this week. Instead of an apple hitting me on the head, I burned my tongue on my morning coffee. I said to myself, if big 3 beer companies can make cans change color based on temperature, then there's no reason coffee lids can't change color when the coffee is too hot to drink! Mission defined.

So, I went to CoHo and ... ahem... borrowed some coffee lids to vacuum-form. My intent was to vacuum form a lid upside down, to mold the…

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Clock Name Tag: Keeping it Simple was the Wright way to go

Posted on April 13, 2012 at 12:00pm 0 Comments 0 Favorites

My parents were in town this weekend and week, and I was shopping a few extra classes, so I had to choose a very simple nametag / clock concept in order to finish. This constraint helped guide a lot of my decision making along the way!