Paper Organizer by Team MARYa: Final Documentation

Introduction: We are Team MARYa, (Mohan, Andrea, Roly, Yingyang) a group of four Carnegie Mellon University students taking an Introduction to Physical Computing course. For our final project,…

Automatic Ball Winder by Team Weavers: Final Documentation

Automatic Ball Winder For the final project of Introduction to Physical Computing, The Weavers, which consists of Jenny, Megan, and Ghalya, were assigned to create an assistive device…

Reminder Box by Team James: Final Documentation

INTRODUCTION For this project, our group of three were tasked with creating a device that would help make the life of our older friend, Jim (as he prefers…

Yard Lights Team Joanne: Final Documentation

Project Description Joanne wanted to have control of her front yard lamp from inside her house. She also wanted her front steps to be better lit at night….

Parkinson’s Cane Assist by Team Joseph: Final Documentation

Introduction For our final project, our team worked with Joseph, a semi-retired attorney and a Parkinson’s patient, in a collaborative effort to design and develop an assistive device…

Bingo Box by Team Jeffrey: Final Documentation

overview This project is a Bingo-style game for Jeffrey to play with his 6-year-old granddaughter, Stella. This game, partially disguised as trivia, would be used as a tool…

Team MARY(a) Prototype Documentation

Introduction: We are team MARYa (Mohan, Andrea, Roly, and Yingyang), four students at Carnegie Mellon University that are assigned with the task to create a useful implement for…

Team Joanne Prototype Documentation

Our device turns “on” and “off” a model of Joanne’s linear toggle switch. The servo turns the gear 160 degrees and the rack meshed with the gear converts…

How do you solve a problem like Maria?

Background We are team MARY (Mohan, Andrea, Roly, and Yingyang) and we are currently taking an Introduction to Physical Computing course at Carnegie Mellon University. For the final…

Team Weavers Prototype Documentation

INTRODUCTION For the final project of Introduction to Physical Computing, The Weavers, which consists of Jenny, Megan, and Ghalya, was assigned to create an assistive device for Rebecca…

Team Jeffrey – Prototype Documentation

  Introduction This post is a detailed explanation of our team’s process towards a functioning behave’s-like prototype. After our first conversation with our older collaborator Jeffrey, we decided…

Team Joseph Prototype Documentation

Introduction After our initial meeting with Joseph, our design client, our team set to work on developing a prototype that focused on alleviating some of Joseph’s freezing symptoms…

Team James Prototype Documentation

Introduction For the prototype, we started working on the memory aid that Jim identified would be a great asset in his life. Essentially, it would serve as a…

Initial Meeting (Claire, Rory, and Joanne)

Introduction This post will outline the two meetings that we (Claire and Rory) had with our older teammate, Joanne. These meetings were the first crucial steps for our…

Meeting Documentation

Brief introduction Team: Joey Santillo, Linda Xia, Catherine Yu TEAM JOSEPH We are a group of students at Carnegie Mellon enrolled in Introduction to Physical Computing. For our…

Interview Documentation: The Weavers

INTRODUCTION For the final project of Introduction to Physical Computing, The Weavers, which consists of Jenny, Megan, and Ghalya, was assigned to create an assistive device for a…

Our First Meeting with Jim

For this project, our assignment was to meet with an older friend, learn about them, and make them some sort of device that they could use daily to…

Final Project – Initial Meeting with Jeffrey

A brief introduction On November 1st, our group (David, Caroline and Chloé) met up with Jeffrey, an older man participating in the Osher program next to our physical…

Digital Stylist

Overview It’s not a special day, facing the closet, you hesitate about what to wear to go to class today. Don’t want to waste time choosing clothes every…

Don’t Chew Your Nail

Don’t Chew Your Nail The glasses helps people stop chewing their nails by warning them with a vibrator when their hands come to close to their faces. Detailed…

Laptop Light Extension

This device changes color after set periods of time to encourage laptop users to look away from their screens. Images of Project Process images and review One of…

Productivity Tree

This is a project to promote productivity by creating a “punishment” if I look at my phone, and a “reward” if I go long enough without looking at…

Semi Hi-Tech Backpack

This backpack lets me know if I have the chargers I need in my backpack by lighting up the LEDs on the top and forces me to organize…

Help I’m Falling Asleep and Can’t Wake Up

Description This device wakes me up when it detects that I am falling asleep while doing my work. Final Product The Process Discussion For me, this project was…

Project 2: Jar of Change

Instead of getting stuck in the same cycle every day, Jar of Change is here motivate you into taking the first step out of your comfort zone! Photos…

Assistive Device: Walk the Walk

Narrative This project uses 7 pressure sensors in strategic locations in a shoe to visually display the pressure distribution someone puts on their feet. The pressure is displayed using…

Interactive Memory Box

Interactive Memory Box is a tool relying on neuroscientific findings used to strengthen the engraving of long term memories right before sleep.     This project is a…

Survival Hugging T-Shirt

Overall: There is a saying by Virginia Satir, a respected family therapist, “We need four hugs a day for survival. We need eight hugs a day for maintenance….

Walk the Plant

-Overview This is a device that helps me taking care of my plant especially when I’m not at home.   -Process Earlier in the process I had several…

Super Pulando Entertainment System (SPES)

  Description: A fidget device to help me focus by giving my hands a mindless task to do. Process: Designing this project was mostly a pain because of how…

Night Night Light!

The Night Night Light is a responsive nightlight that radiates when tilted off of its typical axis. Process The first major step I took in my process was…

Stress Less

A warning device to measure when jaw tension enters the stress headache territory.       Decision Point 1: The power source: I knew I needed an external…

Forget-Me-Not Tray

It’s happened to everyone: we misplaced our keys again, left our water bottle behind, forgot our student ID in our dorm. The Forget-Me-Not tray is the one-stop storage…

A Ring for Retinal Degeneration

As a retinal degeneration patient, room lighting and eye strain have been two things that I have always had to pay attention to from a young age. Without…

Alarm Clock That Actually Wakes Me Up

An alarm clock that make noises and lights up when it is the time to wake up and can be only turned off my jumping on a pressure…

Key Reel

This black box lowers a key when the correct passcode is entered and reels the key back up at the press of a button. Final Product Images Process…

Surprise: The Musical Bug

THE MUSICAL BUG Narrative This robot looks like a car with piano keys, making the user think that the songs and wheels might work together somehow. However, if…

Surprise: Plant Care

This is a box. Not just an ordinary box, but a tiny wooden box with a glass beaker on top, a potted plant to its side, and electronics…

Surprise: Startle Box!

Megan Roche & Joey Santillo The Startle Box is a wooden box with a button on the top face of the box. The box features a button on…

Surprise: Wake Up!

Project Description: The screen on the front displays the time. The box will make a buzzer sound when the display reaches “8:30:0” and there is a button on…

Project 1: Surprise: “High Five!”

Narrative A wooden cube with a cardboard hand sticking out of one side. When the user tries the “high-five” the hand, the hand swivels back into the cube…

The Birdhouse with a Security System

Our birdhouse has two doors, and the project has a series of surprises. When a user comes close enough to the birdhouse,  the “bird” in the birdhouse starts…

Project 01: Needy Wearable

Needy Wearable is a shirt that reacts heavily when no one is close/when someone is far away, and only calms down the closer one gets. The shirt moves with…

Surprise: A Nessie Surprise

Project Description The white box has white waves inside and a boat, looking like the boat is in a lake or ocean. When the boat moves forward. When…

Surprise: Moving Courier Box !

Narrative Description The project was inspired by an Arduino project found online where a prank was done to people who were trying to get tissue from a tissue…

Project 1 groups

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Example: Automated Plant Watering System

This is an automated plant watering system. The system detects when a plant is low on water and automatically waters it if it is.  This a  very useful…

Split-Flap Weather Forecast

By gabbapeople (on instructables) Short description: This person created a split-flap display that shows the weather including the temperature and conditions using abbreviations on the display based on…

E-Textile Fabric Origami

Project title: E-Textile Fabric Origami Project creator: SparkFun Short description: The Creative Engineer Sarah was using the fabric technique –  smocking to create three unique fabric origami E-Textiles…

Alzheimer’s Assistant

Title: Alzheimer’s Assistant Creator: Abdullah Sadiq Description: The Alzheimer’s Assistant is a system designed to help both patients and their caretakers. The creator set out a list of minimum…

TV B Gone

The TV B Gone by Mitch Altman was created with Arduino and has the sole purpose of turning off TVs in public spaces without having access to a remote…

Relativ – Build Your Own VR Headset for $100

https://create.arduino.cc/projecthub/relativty/relativ-build-your-own-vr-headset-for-100-57adba?ref=platform&ref_id=424_trending__intermediate_&offset=4 Created by Maxime Coutté , Jonas Ceccon, Gabriel Combe and their math teacher and my math teacher Jerome Dieudonne Description: “We couldn’t afford an Oculus so we…

Dance Pad Project

Project Title: Dance Pad with Arduino and Smartphone Project Creator: raef_madin Short Description: The Dance Pad was created to resemble a dance game such as DDR, when you…

Punch Activated Arm Flamethrowers

Project: Punch Activated Arm Flamethrowers Creator:  Allen Pan Description:  Through combining a butane fuel chamber, solenoid valve, modified arc lighter, Arduino Pro Mini, and an accelerometer, you can…

Trampolino: Arduino Powered Liquid Pouring System

Title: Trampolino: Arduino Powered Liquid Pouring System Creator: Savio Dimatteo Short Description: This system automatically pours out distinct volumes of water. It can be used to water plants…

Training Heart Rate Zone Monitor Watch

Project Title: Training Heart Rate Zone Monitor Watch Project Creator: Ashley Hah and Marissa Kuhns Short Description:  A useful heart rate detection watch that can be worn doing…

RFID Smart Lock with Arduino

Creator: MakeUseOf A simple RFID triggered locking mechanism. I really like the potential of RFID in body implants, clothing tracking and simple automation of mundane daily activities. This…

Click Canvas

Project title: Click Canvas, an Interactive Wall Project creator: Natthakit Kim Kang Short description: Click Canvas is an interactive wall for anyone to show their creativity. It’s an interactive…

Arduino Bike Turn Signal

Project title: Arduino Bike Turn Signal Project creator: Omar Gonzalez, Elvin Chu Short description: This project is a bike turn signal based on Arduino.  As  cyclist riding at night, there…

Intelligent Biomedical Monitor

Project Title: Intelligent Biomedical Monitor Project Creator: Gabriel Santiago Description: This project uses an Arduino to detect and record vital signs on a patient, which are then sent…

Conductive Wall Art

Project Title: Conductive Interactive artWork Project Creator: Not credited on YouTube   Short Description: The artist takes a drawing of a face, which seems ordinary, but when touched…

LED Bao Bao Bag

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Arduino Based Piano With Recording And Replay

By B. Aswinth Raj This piano is pretty much plain with just 8 push buttons and buzzer. It uses the tone() function of Arduino to create various types of…

Secret Knock Detecting Lock

Project Title: Secret Knock Detecting Door Lock Project creator: Steve Hoefer Short description: If the user does the correct knock, the door unlocks. You can reset the knock…

Twitter Mood Light: The World’s Mood in a Box

Project: Twitter Mood Light: The World’s Mood in a Box Creator: RandomMatrix on Instructables (Source: https://www.instructables.com/id/Twitter-Mood-Light-The-Worlds-Mood-in-a-Box/) The Twitter Mood Box is a color-changing box that tells you how the…

Polar Drawing Machine

Project Title: Polar Drawing Machine Project Creator:  David (https://create.arduino.cc/projecthub/ArduinoFT ) Short description:  Most plotters use x and y coordinates, but this one uses polar coordinates. The drawing surface…

3D-Printed Roller Coaster Model

Project Title: 3D-Printed Model of “Invertigo” from King’s Island Park Creator: Matt Schmotzer, Purdue University This is a roller coaster almost entirely 3D-printed by Matt Schmotzer of Perdue…

Tide Tank project

Project title: Tide Tank Project creator: Robert Zacharias Short description: A creative technologist in the South Bronx worked with  high school students at a boat-building education nonprofit. The…