Cornell: Air-powered soft robots
During my time at Harvard I received one question over and over again from parents and teachers upon seeing my presentation about bio-inspired iqoptions robots: “That’s awesome. How can we build these robots at home/in my classroom?” Unfortunately, at the time I didn’t have the resources to develop a set of directions for at-home or classroom [...]
Science Buddies
ScienceBuddies.org is a science education nonprofit that provides free directions and walk-throughs for various do-it-yourself science and engineering projects. I joined the organization in September 2012 as a writer and content developer. Here are some of the projects I’ve written, currently available on the Science Buddies website: • All-Terrain Lego Robot • Linear & Nonlinear [...]
Tufts: LEGO Robotics
I spent the summer of 2012 as a postdoctoral researcher at the Tufts University Center for Engineering Education and Outreach (CEEO). The CEEO has a strong connection with LEGO and has numerous joint education/engineering research dream-trading.co.za/1xbet-promo-code-and-deposit-bonus projects aimed at understanding how students at the K-12 level learn about and understand science and engineering. I entered the [...]
K-12 and Public STEM Outreach
Upcoming Events I am currently scheduled to present at the Ithaca Sciencenter on Saturday, December 29th. You can see more of the Sciencenter’s upcoming events on their calendar page. Background As a graduate student at Harvard, I had the unique opportunity to speak at many schools in the Boston area, as well as local and [...]
Harvard: Robobees
Robobees is a multidisciplinary project at Harvard University, headed by my Ph.D. thesis advisor, Prof. Rob Wood of the Microrobotics Lab. The goal of the project is to build an autonomous swarm of insect-sized robotic https://dream-trading.co.za/1xbet-promo-code-and-deposit-bonus bees. The foundations of the project were laid during Prof. Wood’s time at the Berkeley Biomimetic Millisystems Lab as a [...]
Harvard: Custom micro force/torque sensors
The following is an older post written while I was a graduate student at Harvard. Final details about my work on custom micro force/torque sensors can be found in Chapter 5 of my thesis. One of the challenges of working with microrobots is that off-the-shelf experimental equipment is frequently not appropriate for the work we [...]