Class: ID 4072 | Instructor: John White

The majority of people, especially students, use a laptop as their primary computer. With all the typing we do though, it's not uncommon to start to develop pain in your wrists and finger tips. This is called RSI, or a repetitive strain injury. The purpose of this project was to design a laptop that could help prevent RSI by offering different typing positions in a laptop that the user can change between.

Solo Project

Due to COVID-19, there is a necessity for schools to rethink how they will teach its students in a safe manner. Desk shields have become a common safety device, but with an average price around $100, it can be difficult for some schools to absorb those costs even with the stimulus money provided. Because of this, I set out to design a desk shield that I could manufacture for less, therefore increasing the likelihood that a school could get as many desk shields as they needed. In the end I ended up producing roughly 500 desk shields for schools around me in my small hometown in Maine.

Class: ID 4061 | Instructor: Roger Ball

Electric ride-on cars for kids on the market right now fall under two categories: being poorly made with gimmicks to differentiate themselves from the competition (at the end of the day how many kids now have an iPod or MP3 player to plug in with an AUX cable to play music over a speaker that sounds worse than tin can), or cars that are made at super expensive price points so that parents can use them as status symbols while playing in the driveway or at the park. Either way, these toys, fundamentally, have remained the same since their inception. Given all the advancements made to battery and motor technology, surely we can create a better driving experience for the child, right?