CAVE DIVER

In Spring 2021, being the only one of my 4-person team with fabrication knowledge and access to on-campus facilities during the peak of the pandemic, it was my responsibility to manage the design and construction of this liquid-activated strategic board game beautified with bio-inspired nanotech structural color. Layered with a film of partially hydrophobic inverse opals designed to behave, in part, like the material of butterfly wings, the tiles revealed a hidden image when placed in the fluid-filled board.

Utilizing fabrication skills like 3D printing and laser cutting, lab skills like calcifying and plasma cleaning, and patience with tasks like glass cutting and individually placing 392 tiny magnets into tiny holes, the hard work paid off, and this project was nominated in both the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences and at the Graduate School of Design for featured work at Harvard. We even made the paper!

Read about the Cave Diver project in this article by the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences