NuVu is on the road and setting up our studio at Episcopal High School in Baton Rouge this summer. The theme is Games and Magic, and we are getting set for three weeks of fun creating and playing games. We'll have a combination of high school and middle school students participating in the studio as well as teachers. Our first task for the weekend before the workshop was unpacking and setting up the 10 team stations with all the basic tools needed for the workshop: soldering iron, cutting mat, rulers, utility knife, glue gun, glue sticks, scissors, pencils, wire strippers, and flush cutters. Equipped with these basic tools, a creative spirit, a collaborative mindset, and some fun-loving and expert NuVu coach-mentors, the teams will be set to design, experiment, create and learn!

It was an amazing Sunday at NuVu: Winter Brain Exhibit. We had a crowd of over 200 people in the studio exploring, playing, interacting with the numerous student projects from the Brain-themed term! The studio was humming of multiple sounds from the blobs of the iMat creatures popping to the sonic tones of the Music Box to the piano chords of the Soundscape to the moving Kinetic Chandelier. iMat: interactive brain-game-art piece

Soundscape: real-time music-light installation

Guests at the Exhibit

iMat: virtual pong game

Us - the NuVu Crew!:)

Camera Canter: remote-operated moving camera holder

SmartSeat: sensor-operated toilet seat opener/closer

Visitors listening to the music tracks from our Mind Music studio

Personal Painter: interactive live-action painter

Mind Pod: brainwave-controlled lighting-mood environment

Music Box: sensor-based, multi-user DJing light-sound instrument

Wall Printer: iPhone-controlled wall printer

Kinetic Chandelier: moving light sculpture

Video and Photos by Stephen Phillips and Angelo Cabral Nothing sparks excitement in the eyes of little boys and girls like the anticipation of Christmas. The joy the holiday season brings is made apparent by neon lights, Christmas trees, and even giant inflatable characters. People go to extreme lengths in some cases to decorate their houses and lawns in an effort to create an atmosphere as festive as possible. Suburban houses are often the most impressively lit and decorated, mostly due to the advantage in area they have over the apartments and lofts in the city. Driving though suburban neighbor hoods, the holiday spirit is apparent through the gleaming lights carefully lined on the gutters and figures of Santa and his reindeer on the lawns. These photos are a reflection of the effort put into these decorations and the expression they display.

Singer Sam Law prepares for her vocal take.

Adam listens and offers feedback to Garret on his production technique.

Eric started the day by showing a little bit about Scratch and the PicoBoard. The students were asked to design musical instruments which they could interact with using their body.

After that, students jumped to the table to prototype their ideas.

Here is Nicky and Eric celebrating after figuring out how to connect the resistors

Harrison testing his design

Julian and Hayley presenting their project



Vanessa and Diallo

We had a very exciting finish to our Winter term last week. Families, friends, and many others came to celebrate students' fabulous work during their term at NuVu. All students came on stage to present and discuss their ideas and projects.

NuVu invites you to our Fall exhibit at the MIT Museum on Sunday, December 5th, 10:00-12:00. The event will be showcasing student projects from the Fall trimester that was themed around Science Fiction. Come explore students work on possible futures and alternate worlds. There will be products, films and an autonomous, solar-powered car on display as well as some fresh apple juice made by our pedal-powered Galactic Alignment Juicer!

Our Fall trimester, themed around "

NuVu invites you to our Fall 2012 Exhibit that will be held at our studio space in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The event will showcase students projects from the Fall Flying term. Come explore innovative designs for airplanes, products and spaces that will help improve the arrival experience for passengers at Boston Logan Airport, music inspired by flying, and films that make you feel airborne. On display will be an interactive flight simulator, designs for the new Boston Logan Airport, fashionable avian couture, short documentary films on flying, inflatable roboticized creatures and much more!

We had our first reviews of the Fall trimester last Friday. Students enthusiastically presented and discussed their projects with the outside critics and other students. The projects showed some glimpses into a "possible" future, powered by fusion energy, and shaped by what we grow on a nano scale.

Some of the critics who attended the reviews.

The spaceship team discussing their project in more detail with the critics.

One of the critics, Kenfield Griffith, checking out the 3d model of the spaceship. The model was 3d printed using the Cupcake!

The interfeed team