Alexander Fiel
Undergraduate student
ATLAS Institute
alexander.fiel@colorado.edu

Alex Fiel is a senior in the TAM program and is a temporary assistant in the BTU lab, where he loves experimenting with new materials and learning new tools. He is also the lab manager for the Tinkering, Building & Designing (TBD) Lab for the 2019-2020 academic year.  His most recent collaboration, "Chartreuse," with TAM student Anna Lynton was featured in HackSpace magazine and Maker Update. 

 

In the news

Alex Fiel on a suspension bridge.
Class of 2020: Alex Fiel

May 11, 2020

Alex Fiel is a near-constant presence in the ATLAS Institute’s hacker and maker spaces. Having created projects that have attracted the attention of the national hacking/making community, Alex graduates with a TAM major and is a recipient of ATLAS Institute's Outstanding Undergraduate Award.

A tape measure clock with a view of the outside and inside.
CTD students' project featured in Hackaday

April 28, 2020

TAM students Alex Fiel and Anna Lynton took a tape measure and turned it into a clock, programming it to move over the course of the day to show the time in hours (inches). The largest challenge became minifying the electronics and keeping the overall footprint of the device to roughly the size of the real object.

Solar Arcade
ATLAS class culminates in Fiske Planetarium exhibits

Jan. 30, 2020

A one-of-a kind class, “Studio: Design an Immersive Science Exhibit,” taught by Mark Gross, Annie Bruns and Wayne Seltzer from ATLAS, and instructors from Fiske Planetarium and the National Solar Observatory, culminated in permanent exhibits within CU Boulder's Fiske Planetarium.