Matt Donahoe

These are more recent projects I haven't written up yet. The Laundry Needle, a ridiculously easier way to carry laundry. Olin HVAC, s...

Fall of my junior year I began work on logic gates made out K'NEX using a system of balls. Two members of my Computer Architecture class...

While working in the Olin Robotics Lab, Jeff DeCew and I decided to make a flexible wheel robot that would deform its shape in order to roll...

This is another modeling assignment for my 3D animation class. We had to model a human head using polygons. I chose Bruce Willis, cause he...

I took a 3D animation class at Wellesley College. Our first assignment was to model an airship using NURBS. It's a cross between a tie-f...

Keep Talking is a puzzle game that utilizes constraint based physical dynamics. The only trick to the game is that you use your microphone t...

In my research position with Gill Pratt, I learned about Virtual Model Control. It is a method of control that allows the user to abstract a...

Classmates of mine built a 3D Ultrasonic position system for a class project. I joined the project the next semester and developed a better ...

I made this book for my Advanced Digital Photography class. It consisted of a series of photos individually suspended from cardboard frames....

Mark Cavolowsky, Adam Bry and I were on a team that created a basic model of the cell membrane. The simulated cells grow and divide, suspend...

I implemented a 3D bird flocking simulation (also known as Boids )as part of an emergent behavior project for a class called Computational M...

For my Differential Equations class, I researched and implemented various numerical methods for solving ODEs. I learned about estimating er...

This picture one of a set of images from a project for my Advanced Digital Photography class. I was given a set of baking tins and asked to ...

I took this photo for my Advanced Digital Photography class.

Olin has a class called Principles of Engineering where students work in teams the entire semester creating their own "mechatronic...

Mark Cavolowsky, Jeff Dezso and I programmed this wave simulator as a final project for a class called Engineering of Distributed Systems. ...

Spring semester of my freshman year I did a 1 credit Passionate Pursuit where I researched collision detection algorithms. In the process I ...

This is a project from a math and physics course my first semester in college. We were asked to model a second-order system. My group chose...

The final project for the Design Nature class was a walker that had to climb up a window using bellows, suctions cups, and one motor. I work...

Freshman year, for a class called Design Nature, we were tasked with making a plastic device that could jump. It had to use around 3 joules ...