design

Instapaper Long Reads that Make Hospitals Bearable

February 2, 2011
iPads make hospitals bearable

If you have an iPad or iPhone, a must have app is Instapaper. You install a bookmarklet in your browser, and when you come across a long article that you’d rather read on the go, you click your shortcut and Instapaper pulls just the text and sends it to your phone. Even cooler, you can [...]

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Robot Building – Time Lapse Montage

April 5, 2010
Timelapse Montage

Robot Building Time – Time Lapse Montage from Joey Daoud on Vimeo. For the past few weeks I’ve been filming time lapse shots of teams building their robots. I set the camera to take one picture every second and when you play it back you get a lot of time condensed. It’s cool to watch [...]

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The First Adventures of ROFL

February 26, 2010
The First Adventures of ROFL

The First Adventures of ROFL from Joey Daoud on Vimeo. ROFL is a BattleBot unlike anything you’ve seen before. It’s described as an angry child having a temper tantrum. In later adventures, I put a camera in the box with ROFL and let him go at it. Stay tuned for that pretty funny footage.

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Rethinking Computer Interactions

October 13, 2009

One thing that Nola, the head of the BattleBots high school program, tells all the kids is engineering is about solving problems. Here’s one that may not necessarily be a problem, mostly because we’ve all become so used to it, but it can definitely use improvement, and that’s how we interact with computers. The mouse [...]

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