Anara's Brief:

With NuVu IDs, students are able to scan a personalized card at the entrance to check in each morning and scan to check out when they leave. The current system depends on coaches checking the attendance every morning, a process that wastes time, and can be frustrating to update as later students arrive.

When a card is scanned, the student's name and time of arrival are recorded to a JSON file. The data from the JSON is then organized in a spreadsheet that displays the information clearly. The spreadsheet is easily accessible to NuVu coaches. The IDs are slim and fit easily in a wallet, they have the student’s name, picture, and NuVu’s contact information in case that the card is lost. The receiver is made of a Raspberry Pi, with an NFC scanner hat. 

nextHome was made as a easy tool to help college students make their decision on where to move after school. The project is an interactive map that helps a user find out what U.S state is best for them. It is a website that utilizes color to change a map based on someone's input.

When someone opens the website, they will see a map and various sliders which they can adjust. These sliders control things like population density, employment rate, and weather. Once the sliders are adjusted the computer gives a score to each state and highlights the states with the highest scores. To create the scores, the code takes the values on the slider and uses a range between 1-100 to assign a value to each state. If the value is above 75, the state will be highlighted on the map telling the user that this state meets their credentials. The entirety of the project was made in p5.js to be an easy tool to navigate your future. This project was built for people who have just graduated and who are unsure of where to go and also retirees looking for a place to relax. “Project name” can help people decide where to go for the next phase of their lives.

nextHome is a website designed for young adults who are looking to relocate and are exploring different locations. By taking data and information from each state, the website generates a map of the United States and generates sliders with different data attached to it.    

Currently, our website uses data markers on employment rate, weather, and population density. These are broken into three different sliders. Each slider has points assigned to it and when the combined total score of each state adds up to over 200 points, the map generates a range of colors. The state with the highest score appears as the darkest green while the lowest score appears as the lightest shade of green. The goal is to narrow in on a group of states that aligns with the user's preferences to help assist in their research.

The Turntable-less Laser Scanner is a 3d scanning system designed for simplicity, in implementation and in use. It does not use any electronic components other than a line laser and a camera. Existing solutions either require complicated hardware, or advanced computer vision techniques, which requires complex, cumbersome software. In this setup the bed the object to be scanned rests on, and the line laser both have printed tracking markers, which the camera uses to estimate their location relative to the camera using opencv. These locations are used to calculate the location of points on the object illuminated by the laser beam, by intersecting a ray coming from the camera with the laser plane.

presenceViz is a visualization of NuVu attendance data that encourages timeliness by displaying an aggregate of student attendance per studio.

This project aims to make attendance data more visible to everyone. By drawing attention to each studio's average attendance each week, it will make all students consider the effect inconsistent attendance has on them. It will also make it easier for coaches to see how much time students spend in studios. It includes several different visualizations to show attendance over time, per studio, and a weekly overview of all attendance that would serve as a sort of scoreboard.

These data visualizations are made in p5.js, and the mock attendance data is stored in a JSON file. The p5 sketch loads the JSON file, then counts the number of students marked as Present, Late, Absent, or Dismissed in each studio on each day. It then draws one circle for each studio each day and colors sections of the circles based on the attendance counts. For example, a one week overview of three studios would be a five by three grid of circles.

The Drawing Mirror is an interactive art installation meant to help people exercise their creativity and grow their interest in art.