CAVE DIVER
An aquatic board game that plays on the nanostructure of inverse opals
Course: Nano, Micro, Macro with Joanna Aizenberg and Jonothan Grinham, Harvard SEAS & GSD
In Spring 2021, being the only one on my team of 4 with access to on-campus facilities during the peak of the pandemic, it was my responsibility to manage the fabrication of this liquid-activated strategic board game beautified with bio-inspired nanotech structural color.
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
Activated structural color:
Cave Diver teaser:
aappleton_ddavis_dspiegel_mdeloge_6477_jg_project teaser video.mp4See our slide deck:
Copy of Cave Diver Presentation Deck.pptx