Madi's Brief

The Fast Mask is an easy to access mask attached to your ear. Inside a motorized cylinder, a turn dowl and a mask would protect with the click of a button. With another simple click, the mask would detract. This would make putting on and finding a mask much easier. Not only that but it would be less time-consuming than always having to search for a mask as you would always know where it is.

 Wearing masks should be normalized not only during a pandemic but also when you’re just sick in general and would help the widespread of sickness. This design could help make that an easier process.

Coffy's brief

Due to the mask mandate people are trying to keep track of their masks.  Thats why our Fast Mask was created, a device that can help with the mask wearing experience.  The device is a motorized cylinder that is meant to store and dispense your mask with the press of a button.   When the button is pressed it communicates with the Arduino which tells the motor to roll it up and or out.  This makes it so the user doesn't have to touch their mask as much and can help them store it.  Currently this could benefit everyone but in the long run it could be helpful in the medical field.

Max

The ARM with its meticulous motion will make building and creating by hand even more precise. This is a combination of a glove that transfers the motion of a hand into the motion of the robotic arm that will carry this motion out in a smaller, more powerful way. Creating a unique opportunity for people with arthritis and other diseases that would make them less and less able to do daily tasks easily.

The ARM comes in two parts: a glove that fits on the user's hand that communicates its motions to a smaller more compact robotic arm. The sensors connected to the user's hand and joints send signals through an Arduino to be mapped as angles that control the actuation of the servos inside the ARM. Currently there are 4 sensors along the fingers and 2 sensors located at the elbow and the shoulder. This technology would open up new doors for how we would interact in the world and create so many more ways to help people who would otherwise be almost immobile. Two hands would be more helpful but it would limit the flexibility of movement and create a stationary object set up on a workbench type setup.

River

Easy Arm:  a robotic arm with intuitive and easy controls through mapping the motions of your own arm. This arm is built on a smaller scale than a human one, so as to have more precision and be more delicate.

 A big problem that the older generations have with new technology is how confusing it is to use. It might be intuitive for the younger people because they have been using it for their whole lives so they are thus going into every new thing with a basic knowledge of how everything should work.  It’s likely older people don’t have this base knowledge and every year tech just gets more and more complicated so it's even harder to catch up. That's why the Easy Arm is controlled by your own motions so literally anyone will be able to pick it up and use it immediately. 

Easy Arm will be made up of two components: the robotic arm and the controller arm. The control arm will have a glove with flex sensors so it knows how closed your fingers are also potentiometers would be attached to your elbow and shoulder to sense their motions. The robotic fingers will have a string running through them that will be pulled by a servo to close them and the elbow and shoulder will have bigger servos to give a larger range of motion. 

GloFlo is designed for overtaxed people to manage stress and improve focus by encouraging them to take a moment to relax their minds. The soothing white light energizes the mind and helps the user focus. The lamp consists of lights on the end of eight arms that move up and down. The mechanism is controlled by the users hands in proximity of the sensors on the device. As you move your hands closer to the sensor the lights move up and if you move them farther away the lights move down. If you remove your hand from the sensor entirely the lights move back to their original state in the upwards position. An Arduino inside the base relays information from the ultrasonic distance sensor to the servo which moves a certain number of degrees depending on the distance measured from the sensor to the moving hand. The servo spools up string that attaches to each of the arms, which then pivot on the y-axis in unison. The lights, which are always powered on while the device is plugged in, are attached to the end of each arm. The meditative motions conducted by the user in combination with the soft white lights will serve asa helpful way to reach a calm and relaxed state of mind.