Final Project: Spark Wand v2

For my final project for physical computing, I decided to advance with my progress on the Spark Wand. If you want to see how my part has evolved from it’s last primary iteration, the link to that is: The Spark

Wearables & Out in the World: Spark Wand

by Kevin Apolo YouTube / musiczheir – via Iframely The Spark Wand is part of a multidisciplinary theatrical project integrating quadcopters, a controller (or wand), motion-capture technologies and an actor controlling the system. Working with the aerial robotics lab and

Mobile Robot: “Zoomba”

Zoomba: Meet Tiny Authors: Kevin Apolo & Alice Rao This assignment is based on the Pololu 3Pi Bot which is a pretty complete basic robot that allows for many interesting applications. It is an interesting robot because it specializes in

“WeMo Light Switch” by Belkin

This light switch is a smart light switch in which an array of them can be managed through phone apps that are based on WiFi networks. At $50 per light switch and an expensive phone, it is a pretty big

“Universal Remotes for smart homes” by Revolv (2013)

The name of the app is pretty self-explanatory. You manage all of your smart home add-ons and this app organizes them for you on your phone so you have complete access from your smartphone. Where this is more practical, it

“Cheerlights” by DISQUS 2015

This “invention” uses a lot of interesting technologies but fails to have any conventionality that I could think of and serves no purpose while still costing a pretty penny. It works by posting tweets on the popular blog site Twitter