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Winner of IEEE-USA’s “New Faces of Engineering – College Edition”

I’m honored to announce that I was selected as the first annual “New College Face of Engineering” for IEEE-USA (The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers). Don’t expect to see my face plastered on any billboards anytime soon, but it’s still exciting to be recognized by such a prestigious organization – I’m proud to call myself a member of IEEE.

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Immortalized in Song

Yes, you heard me right.  Atdiy, of the ZombieTech Podcast (I was their guest recently), wrote and recorded a lovely song about me battling zombified, 3D-Printed, PLA plastic.  Be sure to give the podcast a quick listen if you haven’t yet – I discuss the tools I would use to[…]

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Open Hardware Summit and Maker Faire Wrapup

Yes, that’s me with the Arduino Team at Makerfaire! If you follow me on twitter, then you’ll certainly know that I spent last weekend in New York City for the 2nd Annual Open Hardware Summit and the 2011 World Maker Faire.  I covered the Open Hardware Summit for element14 Electronics (hence[…]

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My First (Useful) Makerbot Print!

If you’re a regular reader of my blog, or if you follow me on twitter, you probably know that I’m working at Makerbot Industries this summer.  It’s been a blast so far – everybody is very intelligent, and truely excited about the work they are doing.  I’ve been working on[…]

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Workbench of the Week!?

My Lab workbench was featured on “The Amp Hour: Episode 30” on 02/15/11 A few weeks ago, I discovered the totally awesome Amp Hour Podcast.  I even blogged about its awesomeness!  Anyways, they have a segment on the show called workbench of the week, and I figured I’d send in[…]

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Building an Engineer [Ignite Talk 2010]

This video was featured on the Adafruit Blog on 12/22/10 This video was featured on the Dangerous Prototypes Blog on 12/22/10 This video was featured on the Makezine Blog on 12/22/10 The talented Jonas Neubert, an associate of mine from Cornell’s Computational Synthesis Lab, as well as the organizer of[…]

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Ignite Ithaca 2010

Watch the Live Stream of the Event! Enlighten Us.  But make it quick! That’s the motto of the Ignite Speaker series.  The premise is that a bunch of presenters go up in front of an audience, and talk about something cool.  Each person gets 5 minutes, and 20 slides that[…]

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