Although the majority of projects in the RFL are research or class-related, the equipment also sees significant use for personal projects — especially for gifts. You saw the gift for Danae and Vasilis Salapatas, below, in an earlier post. This was black anodized aluminum, engraved with the laser cutter. Below is an early practice run [...]
http://rapid.scripts.mit.edu/blog/?p=46
I noticed over on the DMSE blog that the 2008 winners of MADMEC were featured on CNET, in their article on the MIT Energy Conference. At the time, the winners of the contest were called Heliotrope. They have since founded a start-up company and changed their name to SunPoint: a model of their latest technology is [...]
http://rapid.scripts.mit.edu/blog/?p=31