Chikara Inamura

Info

inamura@mit.edu
www.chikara-inamura.com
www.zha-code-education.org
MIT Media Lab / Mediated Matter Group

Expertise

★★★  Fabrication & Craft
★★★  Design
★★★  Electronics
★★★  Programming
★☆☆  Biology
★☆☆  Chemistry

What’s your favorite thing you’ve made?

Co-founded ZHA-CODE-EDU, an educational worldwide NPO for designers, coders, and makers of all age to get together and have fun building:

www.zha-code-education.org

What’s the most frustrating object you’ve used?

A soldering iron tip that is bigger than the microchip.

What do you personally hope to get out of this class?

Foundation theory and practice to build playful objects at the intersection between physical and digital world.

How can you contribute to the class?

I’m an architect by trade, maker at heart, and programmer in brain. I have 10 years of experience in design, engineering, and building complex buildings across the world. Happy to share my experience in virtually all kinds of 3D software (Rhinoceros, Maya, CATIA) and scripting (GH, Mel, CATVBA).