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MIT's First Ever Mini Maker Faire

Woven into the heart of the Edgerton Center’s mission is a focus on building, on working with one’s hands, on learning how to use tools and equipment in the service of an idea. So it was a welcome...

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Edgerton Center hosts Fixit Clinic #99

In the sprit of Doc Edgerton's knack for finding creative solutions to problems, Edgerton Center hosts Fixit Clinic #99. Tags: alumnimakerspaceDoc Edgertonstudent shops

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Freshman Advising Seminar introduces 20 students to the Edgerton Center

Freshman Advising Seminar EC.A790, Engineering, Art, and Science introduced 20 freshman to the Edgerton CenterTags: coursesacademics

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MIT’s ‘Area 51’ goes beyond theory for the ultimate in hands-on learning

The Edgerton Center may pride itself on being among the most interesting places at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, but it sure doesn’t look it from the street: A machine shop and garage for...

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High-speed imaging news

Water Drop Images by Kyle Hounsell '13, MNG '14, Thery Mislick, Victoria Gunning '15, and Ed Moriarty '76Tags: courseshigh-speed imaginghigh-speed photography

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Solar Electric Vehicle Team to participate in 2015 World Solar Challenge

The Solar Electric Vehicle Team is at work on the 13th iteration of their solar car, Arcturus, in preparation for the World Solar Challenge in which the team will race from Adelaide to Darwin, Australia.

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Area 51 CNC shop open for business

Area 51 is not only a U.S. Air Force facility in Nevada surrounded by secrecy, it is also the student-selected name of the newly enhanced machine shop, garage, and workspace at the Edgerton...

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Defusing bombs by color

Professor J. Kim Vandiver uses 3-D printing to help in explosives disposal in Cambodia. Vandiver is part of the collaborative effort to improve the training of people who work with unexploded mines and...

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MIT Solar Car to take on Australian outback

A team of 17 MIT students and alumni will travel 3,000 kilometers across the Australian Outback in a Solar Electric Vehicle for the Bridgestone World Solar Challenge 2015 starting on October 18. A...

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Recreating experiments from history

Now in its 10th year, Instructor Elizabeth Cavicchi’s seminar EC.050 (Recreate Experiments from History) engages students in recreating the earliest experiments as a means to understanding what...

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SEVT's Arcturus completes the World Solar Challenge

Laboring for countless hours on the lower body layup, sleeping under the stars in Australia, seeing one’s brake mounts in action for the first time. These and countless others go down as favorite...

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Electric Vehicle Team's energy efficient future

If you haven’t heard much about the Electric Vehicle Team lately that could soon change. Many Edgerton Center teams experience ebbs and flows in activity due to the fluctuating number of incoming and...

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Gift from Candace and Bert Forbes ’66 creates endowment to support...

Candace Forbes and Bert Forbes ’66 have made a gift to endow the directorship of MIT’s Edgerton Center, which offers a broad range of hands-on learning and research opportunities for undergraduate...

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Visiting artist Keith Ellenbogen brings high speed photography to the natural...

Walk down a portion of MIT’s infinite corridor, or through some lesser-known hallways, or even in many offices around campus, and you’ll find framed prints of some of Harold “Doc” Edgerton’s famous...

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From the Alumni Pool to the reefs of Belize, MIT students learn how to...

From the Alumni Pool to the reefs of Belize, MIT students learn how to illuminate the deep. I first interviewed professional underwater photographer Keith Ellenbogen, Center for Art, Science and...

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Arcturus Homecoming

After traveling over 3,000 kilometers across the Australian Outback last October in the 2015 Bridgestone World Solar Challenge, the MIT Solar Electric Vehicle Team’s (SEVT) Arcturus returns to its...

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Airware founder credits Edgerton Center skills

Jonathan Downey ’06 started building drones when he was a computer science and electrical engineering student at MIT. Five years after he started the unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) team at MIT and...

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Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger

Imagine if you and a group of students were tasked with designing, building, testing, and driving a Formula-style electric race car from the ground up. Every year. For the students who are members of...

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Celebrating the Edgerton Center, an original MIT makerspace

One of MIT's original makerspaces celebrates a quarter century. On April 13, alumni, faculty, and relatives of Harold "Doc" Edgerton gathered to celebrate what the center has grown into...

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MIT team races to second in electric car competition

Strong performances across multiple categories boost MIT Motorsports electric vehicle team at SAE Collegiate Design Series event in Lincoln, Nebraska.Tags: clubs and teams

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