Note: I wanted to make the connections permanent and replace small breadboard with a pro board if I had continued access to the Physical computing lab. Additionally, I…
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…
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…
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….
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
This is a set of sensors to notify the IDeATe Tech Advisors when an Ultimaker 3 printer is low on one or both of its filaments. Ultimately, it…
Wearable Soundtrack The Wearable Soundtrack is a wristband that uses a knob and speaker to play select songs as an “epic soundtrack” to the wearer’s life. Process One…
Overview – A music player that detects heart rate when user is ready to sleep and turns the volume of the music down when they fall asleep. …
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
[High quality pictures were not available, but I used all pictures I have. For the documentation, I used all pictures I have, and either reused pictures throughout the…
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…
This project aims to track the number of hours I am in my studio, as the 24 rods on the top floor fall to the bottom floor for…
Overview This is a desktop stretch coach to help relieve my wrists’ symptoms of Carpal Tunnel Syndrome. Video Overall VIEW Details Usage Process Images and Review Throughout the…
Overview At two preset time, the alarm robot wanders around randomly and repeats a melody until it is placed next to the RFID cards in bathroom or on…
[Final Images and Video Not Available – the device is currently in Pittsburgh and I am not available to take a proper image of the final product.] Overview…
Overview Description An interactive alarm clock that reminds you to go to sleep if you are still awake past a certain bedtime by detecting light levels in the…
Overview The Lockbox is a safe designed to lock away distractions, keeping it out of the user’s grasp for however long a time they want. Final Video and Pictures…
Note: The feature image is not ideal and I would have liked to take a picture of both the stop snac-ing box and the habit helper box. Overview…
Overview This alarm box utilizes a scale to detect the presence/absence of a contact lens case and sends out different reminders and alarms to promote a more routine…
Overview A pair of Arduinos that communicate over Bluetooth to determine when one device attached to the key has been left behind I did not have access to…
Overview: This device reminds the user to take their medicine before going to bed. Lights are turned on when the force sensor detects user going to bed….
Overview Slap on light switch The device detects vibrations of a dry wall, and toggles a power source for lights and other everyday appliances. Process design choices made…
OVERVIEW A wooden and clear amber acrylic box with an alarm used to store medication. I was unable to capture a DSLR video and final image for this…
[the featured photo is closest to original product I could get because I could not get high quality pictures] Background Dropfoot is a condition where the…
Overview This top was designed to display the number of steps taken by the wearer. The video above shows how the tank top works. The numbers displayed at…
Overview A fidget box with multiple switches, button, and knobs with a display showing how much the user fidgets, and vibrates and notifies the user to take a…
Overview Project Explanation: This compact scooter turn signal device uses an on-off-on switch to display either blinking left or right arrows. [Disclaimer: all process images and videos were…
[Final Images and Video Not Available – the device is currently in Pittsburgh and I am not available to take a proper image of the final product.] OVERVIEW…
Overview Process images and review The challenge was with the food dispenser. The servo motor’s knob was very shallow, therefore it was keep getting detached from the chamber…
OvervIew WalkProp is an assistive device that will support your feet “walking straight” or parallel from each other. How the device works (you can hear the vibration when…
Description The device takes sound as an input and outputs light based on how loud the sound is. On one end is a microphone, which is the input….
Description This double transducer is designed to convert light intensity to magnetic field strength, which in turn is converted to rotational speed. The photocell on the far…
Description: The IR proximity sensor reads the distance of a specific point of the rotating disk. If it takes less time to get closer to the sensor,…
Project description A 10’’ by 10’’ cardboard has a light sensor on the top side. When the light goes from dim to bright, a blue motor on…
Description This double transducer reads a color sensor on the left side and converts the result into corresponding rotational movements of a motor which is connected to an…
Overall Photo Detail Photos Brief Movie Narrative Description First the RGB Color Sensor reads the color temperature of a given colored light. Lower values of the Color Sensor…
Description – We created a double transducer that takes in vibration signals and turns it into lamp brightness, which will then affect the thermistor and leads to color…
Description: This is a double transducer that converts magnetic field (first input signal) into a motor movement (first output and second input signal) generated by reading the orientation…
Project Title Double Transducer Video and Photos Simple Narrative Description There is a sensor on the side that tells a motor to start spinning faster once it detects…
Magnetic Field to Vibration Strength Description We created a double transducer which is a device that converts magnetic field (such as the force of a magnet) through two…
Simple narrative description When the dial turns fast, the LED gets brighter. When the LED gets brighter, the light sensor pushes more electricity into the system. When there…
Title Double Transducer – Vibration Strength to Distance to Color Video of the machine doing it’s task Description The machine created first senses vibration strength using an accelerometer…
Project title: RFID Based Smart Attendance System Project creator: @team_chkr Short description: A system that takes attendance using RFID sensors. A student checks in by holding their own…
Project Title:- Control of Garment Color Through Brain Signal Project Creator:- Kitty Y. M. Yeung Short Description:- The project is a painted flowery fabric to monitor heart rate…
Project Title: Sim Racing Button Box Project Creator: diy_yoda Short Description: When racing, you may have to make certain adjustments to the car on the fly (i.e., change…
Project Title: A Glove That Translate Sign Language Into Text and Speech Project Creator: Bipin Tiwari, Swati Sharma, satyamkr80 Short Description: The purpose of the project is to…
Project title: Marble Maze Labyrinth Project Creator: Ahmed Azouz Description: The Arduino Marble Maze Labyrinth consists of a cardboard box with a maze with holes. The Labyrinth is…
Project title: Years Project creator: Bartholomäus Traubeck Description: Years is a record player that translates wood’s year rings into sound. Using a ps eye camera, the grain on the slices…
Project title: Arduino MIDI Rhythm Section Sequencer Project Creator: baritonomarchetto This project creates a MIDI controller for sequencing drum samples and synthesizer samples. It allows the user to…
Project title: Cyborg Computer Mouse Project creator: nico_rosell Short description: This project aims to provide a more ergonomic computer mouse experience. It is known that poor posture at…
Project title: Intellisaurus Project creator: Jacquin B Short description: Jacquin built a robot dinosaur that can walk around. It can move at varying speeds and in different directions….
Project Title: DIY Fingerprint Scanning Garage Door Opener Project Creator: User “nodcah” (instructables website) Short Description: After forgetting his house keys several times, user “nodcah” developed a system…
Project title: Fully Automated Dust Collection Project creator: I Like To Make Stuff Short description: Bob from the I Like To Make Stuff channel on Youtube made…
Project Title: “Follow Me” Cooler Project Creator: hackershack Short Description: “A robotic cooler that follows the user using Bluetooth from their smart phone, and GPS” I think this…
Project Title: UD Alert/Undress Alert Project Creator: awall99 (could not find his full name) Short description: It is an undress alert that is attached to one’s bottom that…
Project Title: Arduino RGB Color Picker Creator: thediylife Short description: Arduino enthusiast, thediylife, created a simple device which displays the RGB values of real-life objects using a color…
Project title: Unsafe Noise Level Alert System Project creator: Ring the Decibels team of Rice University Short description: A group of engineering students of Rice University, Ring the Decibels,…
Project title: Robotic Hand Controlled by a Glove and Arduino Creator: dschurman [Instructables Username] Description: This project uses flex sensors on a glove to be able to detect…
Project title: Color Sorting Machine Project creator: Little French Kev Short description: A machine was built to sort skittles into the different colors. Skittles will be added to…
Project Title: Globe Trotter Project Creator: Caroline Buttet Short description: Globe Trotter is a fun interactive and tangible “remote” for viewing user’s travel pictures. It stores pictures and…
Project Title: Herb Box Ecosystem Project Creator: Walter Heger Short Description: Walter Heger created an automated irrigation system for his plants controlled by an Arduino . It’s connected…
Project Title: Third Eye for the Blind Project Creator: Muhammed Azhar Short Description: This technology detects nearby obstacles and notifies the wearer with a vibration/buzzer sound. As a…
Project Title: Cat Food Access Control Project Creator: Becky Stern Short Description: Becky Stern designed an automated food bowl for her cat that should not eat food at…
Project title: Ever Blooming Mechanical Tulip Project creator: Jiri Praus Short description: A very creative metal tulip that opens (blooms) with just a touch all while shining beautiful…
Project Title: AutoBlinds – DIY Automation for Vertical & Horizontal Blinds Project Creator: Peter Chodyra Short Description: Peter built this mechanism in order to create a blind system that…
Project Title: How To Make Mini CNC Machine Creator: Shubham Suresh Short Description: An Electronics Engineer and hobbyist created a mini CNC machine at home using old computer…
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…