Daniel Ashbrook, PhD

This is a list of project ideas. Most of them are half-formed and will require a great deal of independent thinking and work from the student, but also represent excellent learning opportunities.

Be sure to read the page of advice for prospective students and advice for MSc thesis students or advice for BSc project students if applicable.

Most of these projects deal with physical computing: computing devices that somehow interact with the real world.

• Air table project ideas: Develop games or applications for a table with an 12x12 array of individually controllable air jets embedded in its top surface.
• Thread printer v2: build version 2 of a new kind of 3D printer which can embed thread and related materials into 3D-printed objects while they're being made.
• 7GUIs for FabIOs: Create well-reasoned benchmark for interactive fabrication.
• Open-source printer-based force gauge: Survey how fabrication papers use force/displacement measurements, continue previous student re-design and re-build of 3D-printer force-gauge system.