I'm a doctoral student in the Lifelong Kindergarten group at MIT Media Lab. My current research explores the intersection of music, play and improvisation. I have a background in neuroscience, music, and education. Check out some of my projects, below. Here's where you can email me:
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MaKey MaKey
An Invention Kit for Everyone! Have you ever played Mario on Play-Doh or Piano on Bananas? Alligator clip the Internet to Your World, and start inventing The Future.
MelodyMorph
Construct melodies and make improvised music on the iPad.
Radical Design for Learning
An MIT course I co-taught with Jay Silver in spring 2011.
Tetrahedral Monkeys
A new twist on a classic toy.
Singing Fingers
Fingerpaint with sound. Now available in the iPhone App store!
Interactive Music Studio
A two week long studio where high school students develop interactive music installations
Scratch4Arduino
Program the Arduino electronics platform using graphical blocks
Lego Gift
A gift for LEGO executives commemorating the 25 year collaboration with MIT
Drawdio
Drawdio lets you build a musical instrument out of anything! I collaborate with Jay Silver on this project.
Programming with Color
Program using the colors of everyday objects.
Jots
My Master's thesis project on reflective learning in the Scratch programming environment.
Glowdoodle
Free Software for painting with light, and sharing your painting on the web.
Motion Clock, Stillness Clock
An award-winning art piece, exploring the perception of time in motion and in stillness. In collaboration with Seth Hunter.
Beetle Blocks
A Scratch-like graphical programming language for generating 3D forms.
Scratch for Second Life
An easier way to program in Second Life: just snap together blocks to create behaviors.
Lego Sequencer
Snap together bricks to make a melody.
MmmTsss
Playful musical looping software
Self Assembly Toy
A kit of parts that spontaneously form larger shapes
Shake and Play
New building blocks for young children to explore motion, sound and light
3D L-System Explorer
Play with algorithmically generated 3D forms in real time
ToyBrain
Simple graphical neural network simulator
The old ericrosenbaum.com
My original site, with a bouncy-ball menu interface, last updated in 2004