"Working with David expanded my concept of what Human Factors can entail. TechnoFrolics was an excellent experience in that David and his other colleagues stimulated my thinking and creativity and then encouraged me to go off on my own..."
"TechnoFrolics had an outstanding working atmosphere. David was always very understanding and attentive to personal / life needs. TechnoFrolics' personal & comfortable atmosphere also probably grew from the fact that everyone working there Really Wanted to work there. I had always been interested in combining technology and emotionally rich experiences (visual, audio, or physical). TechnoFrolics allowed me to work in this area while earning money for college. The projects were Very Cool." (Chris was later a graduate student at the MIT Media Lab. For information about his current activities, please visit his website at www.verplaetse.com.)
"TechnoFrolics was tremendously rewarding because of the responsibility I was given, coupled with the freedom and resources to investigate fields of my direct interests, interests which otherwise would have been well out of my reach to explore on my own. TechnoFrolics also gave me invaluable career skills, teaching me how to use high end professional engineering software which I could then use for my own design needs, and which would have been prohibitively expensive for me to purchase myself." (Noah was later a graduate student at the MIT Media Lab. For information about his current activities, please visit his website at www.noah.cx.)
"TechnoFrolics was a very important step in the development of my career. It was my first real job within my field of interest. My work involved a great deal of thought and involvement in high-tech and challenging applications. I was introduced to the problems of safety, robustness and reliability in design, and cost / performance tradeoffs which are often neglected in academia. In addition, I found that I could apply at TechnoFrolics methods which I had literally learned the same day in classes at MIT. I was constantly exposed to the reality of non-ideal situations and engineering approximations, something which has given me a very strong and useful sense of how to approach real world problems." Though now based in Seattle, with Master's degree from MIT, full-time engineering job for one of the world leaders in precision oceanographic sensors, and own small consulting practice, Darius remains very involved in the development of TechnoFrolics' Dancing/Twirling Banners technology, as well as our other custom interactives that include electronic and motion control elements.