BRAD: The ridiculously automated dorm room at Berkeley is much cooler than yours
The dorm rooms that are often the most visited by friends are the ones with a fridge, a Playstation, and a Bose stereo. The gadgets and features of the “lucky” kids in the high-dollar dorms are great but they have nothing on BRAD. Take a few hundred dollars worth of equipment, a good amount of time putting it together, lots of skill and a ton of creativity and you have what Berkeley Engineering freshman Derek Low put together in unit 2, Griffith’s Hall room 402. The innovative approach to automation may have a short life, however. Despite keeping in line with housing standards of using tape rather than…