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Imagine a device that delivers information about the local climate by way of lights. Imagine that same device installed in a plastic skull dubbed the Weatherskull. The mouth indicates inside temperatures. The eyes light up displaying outside temperatures. And claw-like LEDs surrounding the skull dim and brighten depending on the humidity. Finding this on Amazon.com wouldn’t surprise you, but the Weatherskull actually resides in the College’s Towell Library, and it’s an innovation developed and built by a student at the College, Austin Abt.

Abt is one of a dozen or so students who co-founded TIDES (Technology, Innovative Design and Entrepreneurship Studio), a new makerspace on campus. At TIDES, students from a variety of academic disciplines work and learn together to develop products and find solutions to a variety of challenges.

Mike Edenzon and Rhone Findlay, two other co-founders, have been working for much of the fall semester to develop a new kind of drone. “We don’t know if we’ll end up with a marketable product,” explains Edenzon, a computer information systems major, “but we’re learning so much about solving structural problems, coding issues and aerodynamic challenges. We’re also getting a lot of experience working with new technologies as a team.”

Niko Levigne, a finance major who is also a TIDES co-founder, says “Students can come here to work on almost any kind of project. We have most of the resources anyone might need, such as several 3D printers and a vinyl cutter. We’ve also got a 3D scanner on order. It’s so cool that you can come to this studio and bring a project to life. I think TIDES is really breaking down the barriers to innovation.”

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