Lab Notes

Happenings from the Shapiro Design Lab.
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A self-taken picture of a person in a red sweatshirt with a New England Patriots logo. The logo covers the whole front of the sweatshirt - a white N and E with a red star in the top left corner of the N, with two small blue stripes coming from the star on the left.
  • Katherine Stewart Bruce
A hand-sewn New England Patriots sweatshirt for the Super Bowl.
A black 3D printed curved piece meant for the end of a trowel. The piece is short and longer, with a folding seam down the middle, going with the curve. On either side of the angled seam, there is a circular hole that goes through the print (2 holes in total).
  • Gembu Maryu
3D printed palm protector for a camping trowel.
A white 3D printed Pegs and jokers board. It is set up in a square, with each side being one printed piece with a line of pegs. On each piece, there is also a rectangle on the top right side, with a diamond with 5 pegs and an L-shaped corner with 5 pegs.
  • Vera Lin
A 3d printed Peg and Jokers board and game pieces.
A yellow 3D printed block M pencil holder being held in front of a gray sidewalk. The block M used is the University of Michigan "M".
  • Jarod Ansen Dufield
A 3d printed block M pencil holder as a gift.
A 3d printed black laptop part on a wooden table. The part is a long rectangular "corner", where one edge is flat on the table and one edge is pointing up, with a screw hole at one end.
  • Tobias Thrien
3D printed replacement part for a personal laptop.
A pink, 3D printed tube holder on a black lab desk. The holder has multiple sized holes for different tubes, and there are many test tubes in a variety of sizes, many with clear liquids, standing in the rack. There is a green toy frog sitting next to the rack on the table.
  • Samantha Wheeler
3D printed multi-size tube holder for lab work.
A black, tall 3D printed bucket placed on a wooden table. At the base of the bucket is the words "Iron Lung", and the top of the bucket is made to look like a fish's mouth with sharp, needle-like teeth.
  • Xavier P Curtis
A 3d printed popcorn bucket for a horror movie release.
A multicolored 3D printed flexible starfish toy, held by an adult (white) hand in front of a dark green background. The toy is sea green in the middle, where it has a smiley face, spreading out towards the arms/edges it turns a light blue, and the edges of the arms are a muted, metallic red.
  • Hudson Michael Cooper
3D printed flexible starfish fidget toy.
A white 3d printed mechanical yarn winder. There are three main gears on a rectangular base - the lowest gear has a handle for the user to spin up and down, which rotates the middle gear which connects to the gear on top of the mechanism, which has a tall rod sticking up from the middle to collect wound yarn.
  • Annika Sze Long Chan
Gear-based yarn winder to wind yarn from hanks into cakes.
A 9-page plywood booklet standing up and spread out in a glass display case. The pictures in the pages are detailed using laser engraving, and then painted over using bright, heavy coats of paint. The story involved many small, cartoon-like animals in a restaurant.
  • Mya Anne Kim
Laser-cut and painted plywood booklet for an art class final project.