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Digital Graphic Design
Do you dream about being a hot shot digital graphic designer?  You'll learn how to design screen savers that will jump off the screen, animate a storyline, and post your designs on a Web site.  

Quotes for Screen Saver

Band of Rock'n Robots
These music makers will put a hip hop in your step and a smile on your face.

Chain Reaction Machines (in development)
Rube Goldberg - like contraptions demonstrate teamwork and communication in the machine world.
Time Machines (in development)
Need an invention that will wake you up in the morning?  Or a machine that tells you when it's play time, lunch time, time out, real time ...  One of the clocks on this project site was in a playful inventions exhibit at the Smithsonian Museum.
Pirates' Cove (in development)
Your mission is to search the seas for fat bankers who have too much money.  "Avast ya bloody, nat brain, pigeon gut, lying weasel, double talking politician!  Yer money or yer life."
Bionic Boozer (in development)
Simulate what happens in your body when you get drunk.  This is a relatively complex and accurate mechanical simulation of the circulatory, digestive and nervous systems.  It was developed by Dr. Kim at the Brigham and Women's Hospital and 40 juniors at the Greater Lawrence Technical School.  Requires 3 LEGO Mindstorms kits.
Animal Feeder (in development)
Ever wonder what a skunk or raccoon looks like up close and personal when it's prowling for tasty chicken bones in your back yard garbage barrel in the middle of the night?  This project was in a playful inventions exhibit at the Smithsonian Museum and in an Addison Wesley book titled Creative Projects with LEGO Mindstorms.
Sumo Wrestler Robots (in development)
Who's the baddest in the land?  This project is a game of strategy.  And it will test your ability to use leverage, friction, clever mechanisms, strong structures and complex programs.

Rockem-Sockem-Saki!

House Design (in development)
Build-It-Blocks
This library of construction tips and functional building blocks will help you build complex inventions quickly.  It's being developed by a crew of hot shot MIT students.
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Build "knock-your-socks-off" contraptions with inventors, artists and engineers.


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