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OptiFlex

Anonymous — Tue, 21 Jun 2016 16:30:40 +0000

OptiFlex Anonymous (not verified) Tue, 06/21/2016 - 10:30

Team members:

Asad Chaudry
Guthrey Coy
Brandonn Gorman

Our project is to design a mesh of optical fibers that is conscious of its own state. This mesh will be able to sense changes in its shape, temperature, and strain and then display this data on a monitor. This technology can be used to give robots a sensitive touch, to create wings that can adapt to their current environment and change shape, and to check the temperature of hard to reach places.

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KnoteBox

Anonymous — Tue, 21 Jun 2016 16:29:09 +0000

KnoteBox Anonymous (not verified) Tue, 06/21/2016 - 10:29

Team members:

Joseph Kramer
Leonid Ovanesyan
James Thompson

Learning a new song or even a new instrument is a tedious process that can be irritating and discouraging at times. The advent of music-based video games presents a proof-of-concept for alternative means of learning music. Although such games employ simplified controllers, there is no reason why this concept cannot be extended to actual musical instruments. With real-time note recognition, any instrument can be used to interact with the game where the user must play a specific note at a specific time. We will be building a system that is able to recognize musical notes from a musical signal with minimal time delay. We will have the music signal come in to our system through an audio cable and we will output MIDI data. MIDI data is a music standard and contains information on what notes are being played. Once the MIDI data is obtained, it will be sent to a PC to interact with software used to handle MIDI data. The computer will have an interface where the user is able to see what note was just played.

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FlatIron

Anonymous — Tue, 21 Jun 2016 16:27:39 +0000

FlatIron Anonymous (not verified) Tue, 06/21/2016 - 10:27

Team members:

Lucas Greve
Thomas Horacek

The overall design goal of our project is to create a wireless security and loss prevention device. The device would track individual wireless modules that could be attached to mobile electronics like a cell phone or other non-electronic peripherals like your wallet. If the peripheral gets out of range of the main base station, the base station would sound an alarm or vibrate to alert you that you are missing one of your mobile devices.

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FAST

Anonymous — Tue, 21 Jun 2016 16:26:07 +0000

FAST Anonymous (not verified) Tue, 06/21/2016 - 10:26

Team members:

Christopher Karman
Erik Scherbenske
Niket Sheth
Peter Van Der Hoop

It is a tedious task for students to draw on concrete with chalk as a medium for communication to promote organizations and ongoing events. Similarly, the grounds crews of sporting events have tiresome jobs that require going out to the fields to draw lines and shapes for the corresponding sport. To make these matters nearly effortless and very accurate, we plan on designing and building a robot that can create large recreations of text, pictures and/or follow user input paths. The robot will be able to accurately create drawings on a level platform using markers or chalk. Not only does our robot help with the tasks mentioned above, it also opens up a whole new medium for artists to work with and for kids and adults alike to express their imaginations, not to mention possible use as a rehabilitation device for the handicapped.

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3DP

Anonymous — Tue, 21 Jun 2016 16:24:18 +0000

3DP Anonymous (not verified) Tue, 06/21/2016 - 10:24

Team members:

Dominic Boiko
Tseng Ching-Han
Harout Hedeshian
Joel Meisinger
Frankie Ning

The objective of this project is to engineer a fully operational three dimensional printer which could then be used to produce functional prototypes. The 3D printer works by depositing an ABS plastic material on a flat surface. The prototype can be any desired 3D object within 3x3x3 foot. The printer would be entirely platform independent, that is to say it will be able to run on the Windows, Apple, and UNIX based operating systems. The user will be prompted with a friendly user interface for printing which would allow the user to configure the printer's settings and functions.

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XRover

Anonymous — Fri, 17 Jun 2016 20:28:29 +0000

XRover Anonymous (not verified) Fri, 06/17/2016 - 14:28

Team member:

Philip Maksimovic

The goal of XROVER is to add relay capabilities and terrain (defined in requirements) driving abilities to the multi-rover system developed by ReMuS and R3. The legacy MR/CR navigation system will be updated from its current 2D detection and data transfer abilities to 3D detection and data transfer and relay capability. Three-dimensional navigation data is required for XROVER's goal to be accomplished because the terrain presents elevation and orientation differences between rovers. With relay and 3D drive capabilities, the multi-rover system will be able to traverse the terrain and explore locations of interest that are obstructed from the MR. Using the R3 imaging system, reconnaissance imagery of the location of interest will be sent to the MR from the mission CR. Once the relay CR and mission CR traverse back to and dock with the MR, the mission is completed.

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Wild Thingz

Anonymous — Fri, 17 Jun 2016 20:26:34 +0000

Wild Thingz Anonymous (not verified) Fri, 06/17/2016 - 14:26

Team members:

Shamlan Albahar
Rifaah Alkhamis
Doug Bloomquist
Christopher DeBoer

The design objective is to create a wireless sensor network that can be used to study wildlife and how it reacts to changes in its environment. This will be done by creating small, low power sensor boards that have the ability to sense movement, temperature, humidity, light, geological shocks, sound, take photographs, perform simple data manipulation and interpretation.

The key considerations for this project will be size, durability, and power consumption. The boards need to be small and cheap in order to be used in the large scale wireless sensing networks we are proposing. Additionally, they will be exposed to the elements 24 hours a day and will need to be able to withstand rain, snow and hot and cold temperatures. Also, it is not viable to replace the boards' batteries often. They need to last months if not years. This means the power consumption of the boards will need to be minimal or that the boards will need an external power source which could come in the form of solar.

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SynTech

Anonymous — Fri, 17 Jun 2016 20:24:57 +0000

SynTech Anonymous (not verified) Fri, 06/17/2016 - 14:24

Team members:

Travis Cartwright
Ken Hua
Ryan Le
Andy McCormick
Daniel Redington

For our project we would like to build a quadcopter that will be able to follow beacons that we will set up autonomously. For our main objectives we wish to acomplish:

Assembly of quadcopter (frame, motors, "brain", propellers)
Having quadcopter hover at a certain altitude and be able to move in directions we tell it to
Follow beacons we set up autonomously such that it can "patrol" the route we set up with the beacons

Extra objectives once main objectives are complete:

Control the quadcoptor with a remote control

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StoneCap

Anonymous — Fri, 17 Jun 2016 20:23:40 +0000

StoneCap Anonymous (not verified) Fri, 06/17/2016 - 14:23

Team members:

Ararat Adamian
Tyler Blair
Brian McDonald
Adrian Williams

The main purpose of this project is to design and implement a 3-dimensional LED cube. This cube will be able to take user input and then output it visually to the LED cube. This cube will also be able to allow the user to alter the image that is being displayed. This cube will basically allow the user to see different functions in 3-Dimension rather than your typical 2-dimension screen.

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Photocon

Anonymous — Fri, 17 Jun 2016 20:22:21 +0000

Photocon Anonymous (not verified) Fri, 06/17/2016 - 14:22

Team members:

Steven Benedict
John Chen
Matt Graeff
Blake Ipson
Weston Weige

Advancements in optical science have allowed for medical endoscopes to be made small enough to probe inside the human body. A method of building the optical components small enough to function in these endoscopes is to lithographically etch components into a photopolymer. To create objects on a scale this small, the process must be done quickly so that the optical properties of the photopolymer do not change before the etching is complete. We will prototype a system that uses a semiconductor laser to lithographically etch micrometer scale objects. A computer will act as an interface for the user and load the vector file into the system. The system will then extract the vectors, focus the laser at the corresponding coordinates in the photopolymer, and produce a lithographically etched object.

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