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Presentations:

• The Projects of Prototype This

Designing and building projects is hard. Designing and building projects of things that have never been done before is harder. Designing and building projects of things that have never been done before with the financial and time constraints of television is verging on ridiculous.

• Turning Science into Soundbites: Lessons from ‘Prototype This’

This presentation looks at the necessary elements to consider when trying to convey technical information to a non-technical audience.

Articles and Papers:

• Engineered Reality: Prototyping Inventions for Television

Get a behind-the-scenes view of engineers hacking hardware and software to create new prototypes within time and budgetary constraints for a new TV show.

Published by IEEE Pervasive Computing: Special Issue on The Hacking Tradition, 7(3):24-31, July-September, 2008.

Videos:

• Behind-the-scenes clips (YouTube)

Taken by Joe Grand during the filming of Prototype This.