Cole

During this time there are many people without access to human interaction.  This robot is meant for those people.  It provides comfort when there is no one around.  It has two modes: a remote controlled mode that allows someone else to control the robot.  This allows for non direct interaction between two people.  And a automatic mode that is triggered by a button on the top of its head, that allows for the robot to comfort you without the need for another person.

The robot is a circular shape with a domed top, and has arms connected to a scissor lift so it can hug at different heights.  The entire body and arms are cushioned so the hug feels less mechanical, and more organic.  

Schuyler

In the age of Covid, Many kids (and adults) feel depressed. In order to combat this depression, the Hug-Bot was created. The hug bot is a little blob of soft cloth and stuffing that hugs you when you pet it. Our project is made to help people with depression, and they will use it when they feel sad or angry.

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The project is a calendar/ alarm that changes color for different events that go on throughout your day. The user is able to pair it with Google and/ or iCalendar so when an event shows up, the alarm changes to a color previously set by the user for that event.

The Color Changing Alarm Clock helps people remember to attend online events or respond to texts, especially with the increase of Zoom calls during Covid-19.

The technology behind the project is an Arduino component with Bluetooth and an LED inside. The only thing that the Color Changing Alarm Clock does is light up and tell the user that they have a meeting. This is so people will not get distracted by using their phone and seeing notifications and instead go to the meeting. 

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This project is a color-changing planner (not final name) designed for people who want to have a more organized life. The device pairs with the user's calendar and works with it to display different colors for different tasks and events that the user has scheduled. For example, if the user has a zoom meeting at a specific time the device turns on a specific color correlated to "zoom meeting" and the speakers will say the time and announce the zoom meeting. 

This device is perfect for anyone who wants a fun way to keep themselves organized. The design replaces getting notifications on the phone or opening up a physical planner. Instead, the user can just see the color and hear on the speakers what they have to do. There's no distractions in this design, it's just one thing rather than going onto a phone and seeing a lot of random notifications. The color-changing planner also has speakers so even if the user is in another room, they can make the volume high enough to hear so they know when to do their task and it’s small enough to sit on a desk, making it easy to move around.

The technology in this design is an Arduino, an LED, and a speaker. It is covered with white cloth to diffuse the colors in a visible way.

The project is a multi color changing calendar/alarm clock. It is designed for the people who struggle to attend and get things done during their day. This alarm clock calendar pairs with the users apple calendar, icalendar, and will say out loud what tasks/activities the user has during the day. One example is if the user puts on their Apple calendar that they have Seminars at 12:00 PM on Tuesday, it will notify them by saying that you have seminars on Tuesday along with changing colors. The user can customize the color of the clock so when they have an activity to attend to, it will change colors to their personal preference. 

The object is made of a white cloth covering the polygon/cone shape. It will be powered by an ESP 32 and coded on Arduino and will make the LED shine through the whole object when the user has a task. 

This object is an interesting way of organizing the users day to be less drowsy and more amazing and open. While this Pandemic is happening, this object will be a good way to keep the user from forgetting tasks/activities that are important to them.

Brief - Ryan

The Covid-19 pandemic has dramatically increased the number of students participating in remote learning through video conferencing applications. Unfortunately, this learning method provides little feedback to teachers. This real-time student feedback device allows students to give teachers immediate feedback on how well they understand the material and how they are feeling. The teacher will be able to access all of the feedback over the Internet and adjust their lesson accordingly. The students will have a device on their desk with a slider, four buttons, and a heart rate monitor. Each of these input mechanisms will convey different data to the teacher. The slider will convey how well each student understands the material. The buttons will be utilized for quick multiple-choice questions or surveys where the teacher can get immediate results. The heart rate monitor will continuously run and display to the teacher if the students are nervous or tense.

The current problem is that there is no communication between students and teachers on Zoom. People overwhelmingly have blank facial expressions for the duration of the call. The teacher is unable to tell if students understand the material. This device will bridge that gap.

 The technology that this device uses is a linear potentiometer, four buttons, and a heart rate monitor. All of these components will be connected to an ESP32 single board computer. The data is collected and transmitted over the Internet via an MQTT broker to an app or web page. This will allow the teacher and students to be located anywhere in the world and still receive the data in real-time.

Brief - Jeremy

The Real Time Student Feedback Device is designed to give teachers analog indicators of a students level of tension, and understanding, stress, and allow them to ask multiple choice questions. The foot slider portion of the device sits on the floor beneath a students foot(Left or Right), and rolls back and forth on a set of wheels. The two wheels are positioned beneath the front region of the arch, on either side of the slider. the position of the wheel is displayed to the teacher on a website. The tabletop portion of the device is designed to have the user's left hand rested on it. It has a slider, four colored buttons, and a heart rate monitor.

The designers think it is important for teachers to be able to see the levels of tension, the level of understanding, and the level of stress of their students. This is because teachers often use the behavior of their students, which is often not conveyed on zoom, to know if they should slow down or speed up the lesson. The floor slider works by checking the position of a potentiometer, a type of position sensor, that is attached to one of the wheels axle. The device correlates a foot position closer to the body to a higher level of tension. The device uses the tabletop slider as a way for students to have conscious input on their level of understanding. The heart rate monitor serves to measure the student's level of stress/excitement. the buttons allow the teacher to ask multiple choice questions.

Silvia's Brief:

The project is being made to try and solve the problem of physical disconnect in long distance relationships. The device is made for people who like to hug their friends but can't for whatever reason. The machine allows two people to send “hugs” to each other. When the sensor in one spot is pressed, the other person feels a ring of the same amount of pressure in the same place on their arm.  The device is made of a pressure sensor, and ESP32, and some fabric on one half and nylon, sponge, and a servo on the other half.

Luke's Brief: The project was inspired by the lack of touch people have right now because of quarantine. The robotics have consistently been based around a sort of mirror idea with two robots each able to recognize the sensation of touch, and produce it. The robots will sense touch from one person and communicate with a partner robot to create the sensation. The goal is to make physical intimacy a contactless interaction so you are still able to enjoy it without putting ourselves or loved ones in danger. The original design idea was to make the robot a sweater, and then it was going to be a glove, and then it became an armband. Right now the robot is going to be made out of string, sponges, safety pins, nylons, servos, glue, a pressure sensor, and an EPS32. 

Cole

During this time there are many people without access to human interaction.  This robot is meant for those people.  It provides comfort when there is no one around.  It has two modes: a remote controlled mode that allows someone else to control the robot.  This allows for non direct interaction between two people.  And a automatic mode that is triggered by a button on the top of its head, that allows for the robot to comfort you without the need for another person.

The robot is a circular shape with a domed top, and has arms connected to a scissor lift so it can hug at different heights.  The entire body and arms are cushioned so the hug feels less mechanical, and more organic.  

Schuyler

In the age of Covid, Many kids (and adults) feel depressed. In order to combat this depression, the Hug-Bot was created. The hug bot is a little blob of soft cloth and stuffing that hugs you when you pet it. Our project is made to help people with depression, and they will use it when they feel sad or angry.

There are people in this world, including kids, who have trouble expressing their anger.  They find themselves in a situation where something happens to upset them, and they wind up in a state where even the tiniest trigger sets them off.  WADR Leave is meant to help people, particularly kids, handle any anger management problems they might have by providing them with a nonverbal and non-confrontational medium to express their inaccessibility before escalating.  When the user needs space, WADR Leave’s wooden spikes rotate out from against the wearer’s forearm, where it is situated, as a way of showing this.