HTMAA course site

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About

Name ---------- Daniel Harianto
Work ---------- Web Portfolio
Media --------- @danielharianto_
AffiliationMS, Architectural Studies - SMArchSMassachusetts Institute of Technology

Content

FINAL PROJECT

Week 00AFinal Project Proposal09/09/26
Week 00BFinal Project Tracking12/15/26

WEEKLY PROJECT

Week 01Project Management, Computer-Controlled Cutting09/16/26
Week 02Embedded Programming09/23/26
Week 033D Scanning and Printing09/30/26
Week 04Electronics Design10/07/26
Week 05Electronics Production10/14/26
Week 06Computer-Controlled Machining10/21/26
Week 07Input Devices10/28/26
Week 08Output Devices11/04/26
Week 09Mechanical, Machine Design11/11/26
Week 10Wildcard Week, Molding and Casting11/18/26
Week 11Networking and Communications, Interface and Application Programming11/25/26
Week 12System Integration12/02/26
Week 13Project Development12/09/26
TOTAL PROJECTS14.00

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I explore how design and computation can make relationships between people, space, and complex systems more visible, legible, and actionable.

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About

Urban Technologist + Computational Designer

MS, Architectural Studies - SMArchS
Daniel Harianto ASCII art portrait

Bio

I explore how design and computation can make relationships between people, space, and complex systems more visible, legible, and actionable.

I am from Indonesia and a second-year master’s student in Architecture Studies (SMArchS) Urbanism at MIT. I work as a researcher at the MIT Urban Risk Lab under Prof. Miho Mazereeuw, where we focus on disaster resilience and risk communication with communities, agencies such as FEMA, and nonprofits.

I am also a Design Lead at NASA JPL on an Earth science project in geochemistry with principal investigator Prof. François Tissot of Caltech's Isotoparium.

My background is primarily in architecture, computational design, and software development. I have worked extensively with Rhino and Grasshopper, including developing C#-based computational design tools and AI-assisted design workflows. I also have some experience with digital fabrication and prototyping.

Why HTMAA

I am taking MAS.863 How to Make (almost) Anything to bridge my computational work with physical systems. In computational design, form is something I can generate, rearrange, and recompute on screen. In this class, I want to see what happens when that flexibility moves into the physical world.

My final project is a modular reconfigurable robot: identical modules that connect with magnets and rotate against each other, so the same pieces can reshape into different structures, much like a parametric system built from physical parts.

My hands-on experience with electronics, embedded systems, PCB design, and advanced fabrication is still limited, so each week of the class builds a piece of the robot while I learn these skills.

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This site is written in plain HTML and CSS with a small JavaScript file, without a framework or site generator.

Use of AI

I used Claude Code, Anthropic's AI coding assistant, as a regular part of my workflow in this class:

  • Debugging: finding and fixing problems in my code, my circuits' firmware, and this website.
  • Website and documentation: building and maintaining the page layout, organizing assets, and editing the written documentation from my notes, photos, and screenshots.

The design decisions, fabrication, electronics, and final projects are my own work.

Contact

https://danielharianto.com/

djansenh@mit.edu