LAUREN PLATT

Themed Entertainment Engineer

-Projects-

Welcome to my projects!

All of my projects are listed below in reverse chronological order. Please select a project to see more information or select a category to sort projects by skill.

Skills:

CAD | Client Work | Concept Design | Construction | Control Systems | Experience Design | Filmmaking | Installation | Lighting Design |

Manufacturing | Mechanical Repair | Producing | Projection Mapping | Puzzle Creation | Rapid Prototyping | Robotics | Storyboarding | Voice Acting | 2D Art

Rose Parade 2024

December 2023 - January 2024

Parade float decoration for two floats in the 2024 New Years Rose Parade

Curtain Call - Carnegie Mellon University School of Drama Client Project

August 2023 - December 2023

A client project with the Carnegie Mellon University School of Drama to design, install, run, and strike an interactive and immersive theater lobby installation

Client Work | Concept Design | Experience Design | Installation | Lighting Design | Rapid Prototyping

Five Nights at Freddy's -

August 2023 - December 2023

A 4D Dark Ride based on the "Five Nights at Freddy's" IP in a CAVE environment with a pneumatic actuated motion base floor and other immersive technologies

Concept Design | Experience Design | Lighting Design

Projection Mapping

A 10-minute projection mapping show for a haunted house

Experience Design |

Projection Mapping

A lighting design personal project designed to fit an ancient Egyptian tomb themed show set and an audio track

Experience Design | Lighting Design

Happily Ever After

Projection Mapping

A projection mapping personal project inspired by Happily Ever After at Walt Disney World

Experience Design |

Projection Mapping

StoryStudio - Children's Museum of Pittsburgh Client Project

January 2023 - May 2023

A client project with the Children's Museum of Pittsburgh in R&D for live interactive storytelling events for

50-100 people at once

Client Work | Concept Design | Experience Design |

Rapid Prototyping | Robotics

Pausch Bridge Lighting

March 2023 - April 2023

A 15-minute light show inspired by the film Inside Out displayed on the Randy Pausch Memorial Bridge at Carnegie Mellon University

Concept Design | Experience Design | Lighting Design

Astronomy Carnival Booth

February 2023 - April 2023

A "Cool Exoplanets!" themed carnival booth created with Carnegie Mellon University's astronomy club for the Carnegie Mellon University Spring Carnival

Concept Design | Construction |

Experience Design

Escape from Wonderland

November 2022 - April 2023

An Alice in Wonderland themed escape room created with Carnegie Mellon University's Theme Park Engineering Group for the Carnegie Mellon University Spring Carnival

Concept Design | Experience Design |

Puzzle Creation | Rapid Prototyping

A voice acting role for an animated short film

Filmmaking | Voice Acting

Christmas Chaos

November 2022 - December 2022

A Christmas themed cooperative/competitive game for four players using Jamodrum technology where guests deliver presents and attempt to avoid obstacles

Experience Design |

Rapid Prototyping | 2D Art

The Christmas Miracle

October 2022 - December 2022

A side-scrolling 2D pixel art and Makey Makey electronics game where guests play as a raccoon on a mission to help their pregnant wife find a blanket on Christmas

Experience Design |

Rapid Prototyping

Visual Story Films

August 2022 - December 2022

Two short films: One about the highs and lows of a relationship mirrored through a bouquet of flowers, the other the story of a mourning wife reflecting on her time married to her husband, who has mysteriously disappeared

Concept Design | Filmmaking | Storyboarding

Ghostbuster 2022

September 2022 - October 2022

An AR experience where the guest uses a physical vacuum prop to suck up the ghosts of abandoned game ideas and save the school

Concept Design | Experience Design | Producing | Rapid Prototyping

Lotso Neon Sign

July 2022 - August 2022

A personal project clear acrylic neon sign of the Toy Story character Lotso

Concept Design | Manufacturing |

January 2019, June-August 2019, June-August 2022

A Themed Entertainment Association (TEA) Thea Award-winning 48,000+ square foot challenge-based entertainment venue in Natick, Massachusetts with over 40 different games and challenges for adults

CAD | Concept Design |

Experience Design |

Mechanical Repair |

Puzzle Creation | Rapid Prototyping

Graduation Cap Topper

A laser cut clear acrylic graduation cap topper featuring some of my favorite photos and memories from throughout my time at MIT

Concept Design | Manufacturing |

I Ching Split-Flap Display

February 2022 - May 2022

My senior mechanical engineering thesis at MIT - CAD for a device that combined rotational split-flap kinematics with ancient I Ching divination

CAD | Concept Design |

Experience Design

Game of Life Yo-Yo's

February 2022 - May 2022

Game of Life-themed yo-yo's designed and mass manufactured from scratch

Concept Design | Manufacturing

Animatronics Workshop

June 2021 - August 2021

A volunteer organization that creates kits of accessible materials and 3D printable parts that kids in schools can use to create their own animatronics to put on their own plays in humanities classes

Shape Display Tables

February 2021 - August 2021

Systems of hundreds of pins that can act individually or in groups to render 3D content physically, allowing guests to interact with digital content in a tangible way.

Concept Design | Mechanical Repair |

Rapid Prototyping

Toy Product Design

February 2019 - May 2019,

February 2021- May 2021

A mental challenge game where players attempt to repeat the visual pattern of colors while ignoring the audio pattern of colors

Manufacturing | Rapid Prototyping

Self-Balancing Robot

September 2020 - December 2020

A segway-inspired self-balancing robot with several different control systems

Control systems | Robotics

Contact

508-404-3168 | leplatt@andrew.cmu.edu | Pittsburgh, PA | https://www.linkedin.com/in/laurenelizabethplatt/

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