      |      | Innovation Gallery The Tech Museum of Innovation, San Jose, CA Dan Wodarcyk led the design and content development of the Innovation Gallery at The Tech Museum. As the 8,000 square foot, entry experience to the Museum, the Innovation Gallery focused on the five areas of technology that formed Silicon Valley — invention, microprocessors, robotics, lasers, computers and software. The key challenge was to not get carried away with the technology and lose the story of the process of innovation and the purpose of the technology. Therefore, “people and technology” is the focus of every exhibit. In the 3D Software area, visitors can take a three-dimensional scan of themselves using a laser scanner. Then they can rotate and adjust their portrait using 3D software and receive a print rendered in chrome, stone, rainbow or reptile skin. Visitors can also design their own roller coaster using advanced engineering software, and ride their design within a real roller coaster car in front of a large format high definition computer screen. Another exhibit allows visitors to design and customize a state-of-the-art bike and receive a color print of their design to take home. Visitors can visit an immersive, cleanroom — the super clean setting of modern computer chip fabrication. By surrounding the visitor with this environment, we then illustrated the stories of the process of inventing and making chips, as well as focus videos of the people who work in these spaces. By collaborating with local robotics companies such as Asyst and Equipe, we developed interactive robotics exhibits which enable visitors to task a robot to spell their name with toy blocks, or line draw their portrait. Also Dan lead the development of NSF grant proposals for the Innovation Gallery, securing over $1,200,000 for the prototyping and implementation of the gallery. This exhibit had a final fabrication budget of $1,500,000 plus additional in-kind equipment donations totaling over $5 million. | ||||
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