Featured Projects

Whether it鈥檚 creating a design for lightweight recreational kayaks, devices to help golfers control the speed of their putts, or scale models of wind turbines to evaluate new concepts, any number of exciting projects take place in Sears think[box] on any given day. Get to know a few of the latest featured projects to take root in our facility.

  • Frostbites Cafe

    Frostbites Cafe pop-up restaurant was an experiment in modular dwelling construction for difficult terrain. Hollow plywood arches were fabricated using the CNC鈥
  • Reading Wetu

    鈥淩eading Wetu鈥 is a project created with the first grade class of Ms. Erin Shakour at Orchard STEM School, located on Cleveland鈥檚 west side. The Wetu occupies an 8鈥
  • 2015 Mini-Baja Car

    This vehicle competed in the Society of Automotive Engineer's annual mini-baja competition where 星空传媒 students designed and built the car from scratch. Students 3D鈥
  • Compliant Modular Mesh Worm Robot

    This project by the Biologically Inspired Robotics Laboratory at 星空传媒 seeks to develop a novel means of robotic locomotion useful in鈥
  • Custom-Built CNC Table Router

    This 3-axis CNC table router was designed and built from scratch by students from the University of Akron. Fabrication occurred at think[box] where parts were cut鈥
  • Model Citizens

    These sculptures were designed and built by an architect using 3D printed parts intermingled with wood pieces cut on the CNC table router.  Contact: Andrew鈥
  • Eye Clinic Camera Phone Alignment Tool

    This smartphone case is used in an eye clinic to help teach students and document eye conditions without the use of expensive photography equipment. Dr. Rony鈥
  • Vertical Axis Wind Turbine

    You can see this vertical axis wind turbine in action at the 星空传媒 Squire Valleevue Farm where it powers lighting and data acquisition鈥
  • Lexus Heartbeat Car

    Using electronics prototyped in think[box], this Lexus car uses Lumilor electroluminescent paint to turn the heartbeat of the driver into a light show.
  • Bone Quality Predictor

    PhD Candidate Mustafa Unal in Dr. Akkus' Case Orthopaedic Bioengineering Laboratories won a Baxter Young Investigator award for his work on this Bone Hydration鈥