Thinkcycle

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Thinkcycle

• Nitin Sawhney, Yael Maguire, Saul Griffith, Ben
  Vigoda, Tim Prestero, Leo Burd, Neil Cantor

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Thinkcycle

• Engineering design classes
• Students - amazing resource
• How can we make a difference?
• Open large scale problems solved by computers NOT
  people
• SETI_at_home
• Web site, classes
• Open source hardware

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Projects

• Cholera Treatment devices
• three patents pending (TLO), product 8-12 months
• Low cost eyeglasses
• 1st place Social Enterprise Track, HBS Business
  Plan Contest, 2001
• Bettery
• 2-5 watt bull roarer
• Passive Incubator
• MIT Lemelson International Technology Award, 2002
  (5000 prize)
• Clean Water Innovative Ceramic and Bio-sand
  Filters
• MIT IDEAS Award, 2002 (5000 prize)

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ThinkCycle.org Open Collaborative Design
Challenges Posed by Nonprofits Communities
Students design prototypes
Peer-review by domain experts
Field Testing and Redesign
Goal Supporting Design Innovations in Critical
Problem Domains
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Tools for Distributed Design
ThinkCycle.org Open Design Repository
Fab Labs _at_ Computer Clubhouse
Fab Labs _at_ Universities
Fab Labs _at_ Rural Innovators