Marcel Botha

I am an Architect, Engineer, Product Manager and Technologist. I make physical things. I started with buildings. My last "traditional" building was a Catholic church<http://varga-art.com/ecclesiastical_art/SaintAgnes/>. My first digitally printed/cut building was an emergency shelter<http://ddf.mit.edu/projects/CABIN/index.html>. I dabbled in advertising, and won a scholarship for an ad campaign for Durex condoms, but decided to rather go to MIT using architecture as my Trojan Horse. I specialized in Digital manufacturing, Assembly Engineering and Media Arts. I designed soft cars for GM. Busses<http://mobile.mit.edu/research/workshops/smart-mobility> and Bus Stops<http://mobile.mit.edu/research/urban-interface/interactive-bus-stop> for Paris. Helped build a mesh networking company,SNIFLABS<http://www.peoplepets.com/people/pets/article/0,,20491678,00.html> (Now General Sensing<http://generalsensing.com/>) with a first product for Social Networking of Pets (think Nike+, Foursqaure, and FB for your dog). Developed The Betacup<http://www.thebetacup.com/> with with fellow overlapper Toby Daniels, Starbucks and Jovoto. Convinced the Nordics that Mono-skiing<http://theinspirationroom.com/daily/2010/mcdonalds-dreaming-in-mono/> was a resurgent trend on behalf of McDonalds during Christmas 2009.

I needed more. In 2010 I started devoting my time exclusively to projects that were relevant, scalable, complex and mostly medical in nature. Since, I have developed a low cost electronic stethoscope, helped to reinvent the colposcope and launched Timesulin. <http://timesulin.com/>