In my last post, “Digital Joinery Design Automation,” I wrote about a project I planned to undertake to...

Digital Joinery Design Automation
In past posts, I’ve written a little bit about my experience taking a 12-week intensive course in furniture...
The role of “craftsmanship” in engineering education
For a while now, I’ve been thinking a lot about craft as it relates to engineering education. “What...
Craft and computers
You start by sketching, then you do a drawing, then you make a model, and then you go...
The antithesis of multitasking
I’ve just completed my first week of the 12-week furniture intensive course at the Center for Furniture Craftsmanship...
Cloud-enabled Time-Lapse Video – Part II
In Cloud-enabled Time-Lapse Video Part I, I walked through setting up a Raspberry Pi with a camera and...

Cloud-enabled Time-Lapse Video – Part I
A major theme of the library reinvention project is documentation. Documentation can serve many critical purposes including storytelling,...
Pivots: A Scrum pattern for design projects
I'm calling the pattern "Pivots," but it's based on an existing pattern called the "Interrupt Pattern" devised by Jeff...
Design Thinking + Scrum = ?
At Olin, design (and design thinking) is one lens through which we view engineering. If you'll allow me...