Hexapod Conference

May 2013

I won a de Florez Fund for Humor grant to organize Hexacon, the world’s first hexapod conference, with over thirty attendees, including Prof. Sangbae Kim from MIT and Prof. Aaron Hoover from Olin as speakers. For the conference, I lasercut hexapod earrings and also made paper hexapod kits using the designs from the Biomimetic Millisystems Lab at Berkeley.

What I did:

Prof. Kim giving a presentation

Prof. Sangbae Kim giving a presentation at Hexacon

RoaCH demo at Hexacon

RoaCH demo at Hexacon

Lasercut hexapod earrings (by Rui Ouyang)

Lasercut hexapod earrings by Rui Ouyang

Shirt stencil (by Dane Kouttron)

Hexacon shirt stencil by Dane Kouttron

Screen-printed shirts

Poster (by Cynthia Lu)

Hexacon poster by Cynthia Lu

For more information including videos, see the “Post-Event” tab on hexacon2013.mit.edu.

Press:

• MIT Hexacon 2013 World’s First Hexapod Conference (includes dance-off!), Adafruit, April 2013
• Check Out the World’s First Hexapod Conference, TrossenRobotics, April 2013