Exhibits

For museums, science centers, schools, and universities, we design and build exhibits that make physical phenomena tactile and engaging. We focus on creating experiences that are immediate, surprising, intuitive, and fun—where a visitor can encounter something unfamiliar and quickly develop a feel for how it behaves.

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Exhibits are unique design problems. Each must be clear and inviting at first glance, yet reveal additional layers through use. It must appeal to the senses—especially the eyes, ears, and hands—but also unlock a lasting fascination. We design exhibits that people return to and explore repeatedly.

At the same time, exhibits must be soundly engineered: durable under constant public use, reliable, safe, and repairable. Each also brings unique specific technical demands, and must perform consistently in a demanding public environment. Our background in scientific instrumentation and precision manufacturing allows us to develop exhibits that are simple to use but difficult to make.

The work shown below gives a sense of how we approach exhibit development. We primarily develop new exhibits that are technically demanding and require close integration of design and engineering. Some exhibits have evolved through multiple installations.

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Selected current work

Rays

A sandbox of optical reflection, refraction, and dispersion.

A modular optics system that collimates light into bright, well-defined beams without the safety risks of lasers. Coupled with lenses, mirrors, and prisms, this exhibit allows visitors to play with and develop an intuition for fundamental optics principles.

We have built this Rays exhibit for museums and schools around the country. It can be delivered as a full exhibit, or as an optics package for an exhibit of your own design.

Bubble Playscape

An interactive landscape of bubbles, surface tension, and fluid dynamics.

A wall-mounted fluid exhibit for exploring the mesmerizing beauty of high viscosity fluid dynamics. Visitors inject bubbles of different sizes and intensities into a backlit tank, engaging with a landscape of geometries designed to express the many behaviors of bubbles.

This project is currently in development, with installation scheduled for Q2 2026 at a major science museum in the Mid-West. The above images are working prototypes.

Trochoid Traces

A pendulum-driven exploration of spirographic patterns.

When a pendulum with an ultra-violet light swings over a phosphorescent surface, it traces out its motion. In this exhibit, the surface can also be rotated, producing the family of mathematical curves known as trochoids.

The project is currently in development, to join a larger exhibition that opens in Q1 2027 at a museum in Northern California. The above images are working prototypes.

Galton Machine

A large-scale visual demonstration of the central limit theorem

Every single ball inside this exhibit has an equal chance of falling either left or right whenever they hit one of the 77 precisely aligned bumpers. Any individual ball's path is random, yet the thousands of balls in the exhibit reliably form a normal distribution as they gather in the columns at its base. We developed a self-resetting version of this classic exhibit for use in the classroom that requires no power.

This project was delivered to a college in Texas in 2025 as a travelling teaching aid for their Mathematics Department's outreach programme.