I took a class freshman year at MIT called 12.409 Hands on Astronomy taught by professor Michael Person. Professor Mike would start each class by asking us, who were obviously sitting in a lecture hall inside, if we could point to the moon. Some people could hazard a guess if they could manage to reorient themselves after remembering the order of the corridors they turned through to get to the room, but most students had no idea. Every week, the professor would eventually point to a slightly different spot on the wall, and say confidently, "It's about there." Incredulous, I would check him using some Sky Map app on my phone, and he'd invariably be correct.

Since then, I've been wondering if I could build a compass of sorts that could copy my professor and point to the moon. And if it could do that, why not have it point to the planets, or different countries on earth, or specific stores, or anything else at all.

That's the goal of the universal compass.

It's still a work in progress to polish up to a final point that I would like to show off, but I submitted it to the DeFlorez Competition at MIT with a poster, so you can see the general design off of that:

Universal Compass Poster

Check back in a few months for the final version, and maybe you might even be able to buy one.