Innovation Archives - NYU MakerSpace

Photo Booth Through History

This post was written by Ozioma Chukwukeme, a fourth-year majoring in Integrated Design and Media & winner of our monthly MakerSpace Mini Grant. I hope people will think about the practice of self-portraiture and how it’s changed over time along with technology from a super lengthy and involved process to something that anyone with a smartphone has access to within seconds Concept I’m creating a photo booth for my senior design capstone project. It is…

Making Flowers with Acrylic

This post was written by Zoe Leung, a third-year majoring in Mechanical Engineering & winner of our monthly MakerSpace Mini Grant. I love glass-working videos and attempted to get a similar sculptural effect by heating the acrylic until it was malleable, and pushing it against a mold! Concept Acrylic comes in a lot of beautiful colors and finishes, but I only see it used as a 2D canvas, or welded into sharp angles. I love…

Spring 2023 Prototyping Fund Showcase Recap

The NYU Prototyping Fund is a collaborative program offered by the Design Lab @ NYU Tandon MakerSpace, the Technology Management and Innovation Department, and New York City Future Manufacturing Collective (NYC-FMC), that awards teams of students up to $500 in the first round of funding and up to $2,000 in the second to be used to build hardware or software prototypes, and connects them with the resources, tools, and mentors they need to bring their…

2023 Design Week: Future of Connections Recap

This year’s Design Week was held recently by the NYU MakerSpace Design Lab. Design Week 2023: Future of Connections, focused on how we can work to create connections using the world’s constantly improving and advancing presence of digital interactions. It was all about answering the following question: how can we leverage emerging technologies to help us build and strengthen human connections? Engineers, artists, urban planners, social workers, and designers mustt all work to use technology…

Fall 2022 Prototyping Fund Showcase Recap

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