Our project aims to create a captivating LEGO art piece depicting the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA) map in the downtown Boston area, with added features to provide real-time information of the subway system. Through several LEDs spread throughout the map, this project visually represents the precise locations of trains within the MBTA network based on their most recent stop, offering commuters and enthusiasts an interactive and informative experience.
Oceanography researchers aim to measure turbulent flow under the ocean to learn useful weather information and predict certain events such as tornadoes and vortexes. Turbulent analysis also allows researchers to learn about the mapping of solids under the ocean. Currently, means of measuring turbulence are acoustic velocimeters that are expensive and easily break. The LOCUS team at UCSB aims to explore alternative ways of measuring turbulence that are cheaper and more accessible, to make oceanography and turbulence study more available.
Our project is a smart watch designed for the elderly living in nursing homes to monitor their health around the clock. The watch will collect heart rate, blood oxygen levels, activity levels, respiratory rate, and fall detection that can be displayed on the smart watch
screen or seen on their phone. We plan to use Bluetooth to connect the data retrieved from the smartwatch to an app on the user’s phone.
Cataract surgery is largely affected by the rotation of the eye of the patient. The rotation of the eye changes when the patient lays down for operation. Through the use of machine learning, the surgical camera system can be taught how to differentiate the anatomy of the eye’s anterior structure, which consists of the pupil, iris, and sclera, and detect the eye’s rotation and movement.
The Empro E-bike conversion kit is a comprehensive front wheel hub assembly that effectively transforms a standard bicycle into an electric bike. This all-in-one system includes a motor, lithium-ion batteries, and sensors, offering users the benefits of an e-bike at a considerably reduced price. It uses a wireless throttle to control the motor's power output, thereby regulating the bike's speed. Using the onboard sensors, the onboard microcontroller transmits performance metrics to the mobile application, which are subsequently stored on a cloud-based server.
As people’s daily lives begin to become more and more automated, smart home devices have become more and more prevalent in our everyday lives yet continue to lack a simple all in one solution to control all of your smart devices. Concordia is aiming to create a dedicated and simplified user process for smart home devices by providing a smartphone application and easy cloud connection for any of your bluetooth or wifi connected devices. By connecting to the cloud we can effectively pull and push data from your phone to your smart device and vice versa.
The proposed project aims to create a smart glove that precisely tracks the movement of the hand to achieve two goals: render these movements into a 3D model, and smoothly control analog instruments using arbitrary hand gestures. The glove will utilize individual modules for each finger, each of which consist of a dedicated flex sensor and IMUs. The flex sensors will be used to track the angle between fingers, and the IMUs will be used to track the rotation of the base and tip of each finger.
As our exploration of space continues, especially with NASA’s establishment of a long-term manned presence on the lunar surface with the Artemis program, there is a desire to build larger structures, and explore more treacherous landscapes. However, there are numerous challenges in these endeavors, one of which is securing structures and devices into the soils of the Moon and other astronomical bodies. Given the costs associated with launching large and/or heavy objects, an anchoring solution would have to be compact and light.
During the year 2020, there were more than 5000 boating accidents nationwide, which resulted in over 700 deaths, 3000 injuries, and $62,000,000 in property damages. In an effort to reduce the frequency and severity of these boating accidents, Spyglass is building a stabilized visible and infrared camera system geared towards sailboats which allows skippers to clearly see an unobstructed and horizontal view of the waters up to 2 boat-lengths ahead both during the day or night.
In a not so distant future, thousands of drones in every city buzz like bees across roads and parks, without a care in the world as to how annoying they are. We at Ionic Skies are developing a new type of aircraft that will completely solve this inevitable problem. Our aircraft uses a unique method of propulsion called Ionic Wind, which is completely silent and has ZERO moving parts. Our breakthrough box shaped airframe has wings that also function as ionic thrusters.