Gus' Brief

Eye of Avik is a device in the shape of a necklace that finds people who leave homeless shelters without warning and hypnotizes other people’s minds so they feel sympathy for the homeless. Using wood, LED lights, circuits, and 3-D printed components, Eye of Avik gives a local doctor a tool to better serve and protect the homeless population of Cambridge.

This project helps a local hero Avik Chatterjee, a doctor that works for Boston’s Health for the Homeless and treats 11,000 patients a year. After treating the same patients overtime  he grows attached to them and wants them to be safe wherever they go. Eye of Avik helps him with that goal with its two modes. In the first mode, finding mode, the rings in the necklace spin faster as he gets closer to the person he is trying to find. In the second mode, hypnosis mode, the rings spin and lock in place and the LEDs flash, changing the views of people who are unsympathetic of the homeless. Eye O’ Avik works by using two servos and gears to spin rings and flash LEDs. It uses materials like wood, servos, acrylics, LEDs, gears, and circuits. 

Charlie's Brief

1. Our project is an artifact used by our superhero Avik Chatterjee, who is dedicated to serving the homeless population. It is used to find people, and also to hypnotize. Currently, it works with two modes: hypnosis, and finding. When in hypnosis mode, there are about 3 layers and they all spin around with a hypnotic light flashing under it. when in finding mode you turn until the layers line up to make a spotlight in the direction of the person you are trying to find.
2. The soul of the project is a necklace that can find and hypnotize people.
   1. The body of our project is a few layers of wood, cut to be almost covered, and a light. all the pieces of the wood are the same, so when they line up the light below shines through. There are a few axles connected to servos that make them all turn individually.
      1. Our project exists because of Avik's drive to help the homeless. and because we want to make him a tool such as Thor’s hammer, Dr. Strange’s Eye of Agamotto, Professor X’s Cerebro.
         1. Our project engages the social issue of homelessness.
            1. Our project is helping Avik, who helps the homeless get their medicine because they often disappear from the shelter. This will help him find them.
            2. Our project changes the world by giving Avik his own superhero tool with which he can find people, as well as hypnotize. He needs to hypnotize the people making bad policies against the homeless.
            3. This will change people’s lives by enabling Avik to change the bad policies against his clients.
         2. The project is for Avik Chatterjee, a doctor who works mostly with the homeless.
         3.   If you are designing for a specific person, answer the following:
            1. Our client's name is Avik Chatterjee.
            2. He is a doctor, but he really wanted to be able to hypnotize people making bad policies against the homeless as well as others. he also wanted to be able to find the peoples who disappear from a homeless shelter when they need to take medication.
            3. Avik is a doctor, so his clients are the most important thing to him. We made him something that could enable him to help his clients by finding them when he needs to or to hypnotize the people making bad policies.
         4. How does your project work. In non-jargonistic language, answer the following
            1. The basic technology behind our project is an axle inside of two other axles so that all three of the layers can be manipulated used three different servos.
            2. Our project uses the same mechanism  for multiple different things.
            3. The user turns on the different modes (finding/hypnosis) and goes through the steps for doing using each one.