Getting a 'Maker' Education
From: Product Design & Development - 07/08/2014

Down an alley off Massachusetts Ave. in Cambridge, there's a "maker space"
called NuVu Studio, where local high school students leave their classrooms
behind to design robots, websites, board games, medical devices, and
clothing, among other things. But they’re not playing hooky — in fact, it’s
part of their education.

Last winter, two students created a medical device that expands and improves
upon research to reduce tremors caused by Parkinson’s disease. The device
measures, in real-time, the frequency and amplitude of a patient's tremors,
creating and sending a feedback signal to the brain that helps suppress the
tremors. Being developed further by Wang, the device will begin clinical
trials at Beth Israel Hospital this summer.

And in a recent "do-it-yourself prosthetics" studio, two students developed a
3-D printed "artistic" prosthetic hand for children under age 12. Using an
online open-source design called "Robo Hand," they built a hand with
interchangeable cylinders to fit a brush, pencils, and other artistic
utensils.

Now the student inventors are organizing prosthetic design events next fall
at NuVu, where students creating prostheses can display their inventions at
the studio and share their knowledge.

Read the entire article at:
http://www.pddnet.com/news/2014/07/getting-maker-education

Links:
NuVu Studio
https://cambridge.nuvustudio.com/studios/about#tab-studio-model

Fantasy / Summer 2014
https://cambridge.nuvustudio.com/terms/summer-2014

Robo Hand
http://www.robohand.net/

Liftware
http://www.liftlabsdesign.com/index.html