Category: Final project

Dog Trainer by Team Cynthia: Final Documentation

Introduction For this project, our team was tasked with creating an assistive device for our Osher student Cynthia. The goal was to design a piece of technology to…

Mouse Detector by Group Emily: Final Documentation

Introduction For the final project of Physical Computing(60-223) course at Carnegie Mellon University, each group of three CMU students was assigned to an Osher student to build an…

RC Moss Dispenser by Team Beth: Final Documentation

This class project stems from collaborating with Osher students, who are people that lie in the mature age group, to implement a useful device for their daily lives….

Wearable Metronome by Team Diane: Final Documentation

Introduction For the final project of Introduction to Physical Computing, we were tasked with building an assistive device for an elderly OSHER student. Within the scope of Arduino…

Bird Feeder by Team Jane: Final Documentation

Introduction For our final project in Introduction to Physical Computing, our group (Leah, Abel and Varsha) was given the opportunity to work with an Osher student over the…

The Puzzle Box by Team Yale: Final Documentation

1. Title and introduction (1 pt.) Our team’s design proposes a solution to regularizing Yale Cohen’s eating schedule. During our first discussion with Yale, we discovered that he…

Foot Keyboard by Team Lynne: Final Documentation

For our Physical Computing class at Carnegie Mellon University, our final project was to prototype and design an assistive device for an older Osher student over a five-week…

Exercise Companion by Team Fredrick: final documentation

Introduction We created an assistive device for an older adult that would improve a certain aspect of their daily routine or bring more positivity to their life. We…

Team Yale Prototype Documentation

Introduction Our team’s design proposes a solution for regularizing Yale Cohen’s eating schedule. During our first discussion with Yale, we discovered that he has lived with an odd…

Team Jane Prototype Documentation

Introduction We (Leah, Abel, and Varsha) were paired with a retired English teacher named Jane. On March 25th at 10:00am we interviewed Jane to get an opportunity to…

Team Fredrick Prototype Documentation

Exercise Companion Introduction  Our team is trying to create a personal useful device for an elderly person that may improve a certain aspect in their daily routine  or…

Team Beth Prototype Documentation

Introduction Our project is a remote-controlled moss dispenser that will help Beth to clean up and beautify her yard. This post is our ideation process being prototyped along…

Team Lynne Prototype Documentation

Introduction Previously, Team Lynne interviewed Lynne to get a sense of what device would help her in her daily life. (Link to the interview documentation: https://courses.ideate.cmu.edu/60-223/s2020/work/interview-with-lynne/) We concluded…

Team Emily Prototype Documentation

Introduction This is a documentation for Team Emily’s prototyping for the mouse detector idea that we decided to build for Emily after our initial meeting with her. Yun…

Team Diane Prototyping Documentation

Introduction This document highlights the prototyping process of our assistive device for Diane. The interviewing and ideation process can be seen here: https://courses.ideate.cmu.edu/60-223/s2020/work/meeting-with-diane/ We decided to create a…

Team Cynthia Prototype Documentation

Introduction After the team’s interview with Cynthia, we decided to build a device that would help train her dog who loves to chew sandals and other items like…

Initial Meeting with Emily

Introduction As a final project for Carnegie Mellon University Physical Computing(60-223) course, we work with one assigned Osher student (Emily) from CMU Osher Institute. Through multiple stages of…

Interview with Cynthia

Introduction For our final project, our team was tasked with designing an assistive device for an older person. This device is meant to aid our client with their…

Interview with Fredrick

  Introduction For our project, we want to create a device for an elderly person that would pertain to them specifically and help them resolve some problem existing…

Team Jane Meeting Documentation

Introduction:  In this class, we have the opportunity to solve a problem experienced by an older person we are paired with by using what we have learned so…

Meeting with Diane

Introduction We are Chloe, Elizabeth, and Ivan, undergraduates at Carnegie Mellon and members of TEAM DIANE. For our final project in our Intro to Physical Computing class, we…

Interview with Lynne

On March 25th, 2020 at 11:00 am, Team Lynne, consisting of Sue, Hojung, and Achilles, interviewed an Osher student named Lynne, to kick-off our Physical Computing class’s five-week…

Interview with Beth

Introduction: For this project, we will build an assistive device for our Osher student, Beth.  On Friday, March 27th, Meijie, Estevan, and Suzanne (Team Beth) held a call…

Initial Meeting Documentation: Team Yale

A brief introduction The project Team Yale was tasked with accomplishing was to design an one-of-a-kind assistive device for one of Carnegie Mellon’s OSHER students. The purpose of…