؜Our project is a buoy that fisherman can attach to an existing lobster trap to be stored underwater until a specified deployment time. While similar systems exist, they can be extremely expensive, cumbersome, and difficult to use.

؜Project Statement

Why

؜Of the 370 surviving North Atlantic Right Whales, 85% have been entangled at some point in their lives. The most common causes include lobster trap ropes and unidentified ropes. There are laws being put in place to try to conserve right whale populations. The lobstering industry is being forced to use ropeless trap systems that cost $1,000 minimum; our project aims to bridge the gap

Precedents

Conceptual, technical, and visual

؜Precedent 1:

Name: ARC-1XD Acoustic Release & STM-3 Deck Box

Creator: Desert Star Systems

Precedent 2:

Name: Offshore Lift

Creator: LiftLabs, a part of Dassault Systems

Precedent 3:

Name: Ropeless RISER

Creator: Ropeless Systems

؜Research

Conceptual, technical, and visual

“If you suggest ropless gear, and have never hauled traps in a trawl string set-up around other trawl strings, you are effing ignorant and should shut your face.”

؜“FOLLOW THE MONEY!!!! Every time a whale dies, every published picture of a whale tangled in a rope, garners MILLIONS of dollars for CONSERVATION LAW FOUNDATION'S executive salaries.”

“Talk about a SPECIAL KIND OF STUPID, Ropeless Lobstering Gear that depends upon Cell Phone Service????”

“Not only is cell phone signal a problem. Knowing where other lobstermens strings are so you don’t set over them is another. Goes to show the people dreaming this stuff up have little to no time on deck.”

؜“No lobsterman that I know would agree to a map to show where ALLL there gear is. That is like playing poker and showing everyone your cards.”

؜“Don’t make a case for “ropeless” being a good idea ever. If this gets forced on the industry it will more or less kill it. Very bad news this stuff is”

؜“I was reading that the idea to prevent setting over up gear is to have the fishermen mark on a shared chart where they are fishing gear.

Sure, right after I post the combo to my safe online.”

“will take most sport and commercial folks out at 1,000-2,000$ a trap”

“So the retail price will be high and the guys spending all the money on the gear will make less...”

“Ropeless is a scam. As always follow the money, the people pushing this are invested financially in this technology.”

“For the people asking they have proposed a common database that will show where traps are on some sort of chart but will hide individual fishermens info. Its just stupid, we will all have to buy new electronics n addition to this technology which I have worked with in a previous job. There will be lots more ghost gear.”

“Even with ropes people have set on my traps or fouled the lines, with our currents the buoys tend to be a ways away from the trap, and of course everyone wants to set their traps "near" my buoys because obviously I know what I am doing.. “

Monday

Tuesday

Wednesday

Thursday

Friday

Week 1

11/03 - 11/07















Print the bouy

Add the magnomatic to it

Calendar/ Milestones for OI

Week 2

11/10 - 11/14

Hook up the magnomatic to a motor

Get the circuitry working

Day for when something goes wrong

Lobster detection system

Put it all together

Week 3

11/17 - 11/21

Day for when something went wrong

؜؜PENCILS

DOWN

Day for when something goes wrong

؜

؜

MID REVIEWS

Sketches

Prototype 1 | Mechanical Release

Prototype 2 | Magnetic Release

1) Look into waterproofing

2) Implement waterproofing

3) 3D print a model buoy

4) Make the timing circuits and programming

Next Steps

What's the problem?

؜Of the 370 surviving North Atlantic Right Whales, 85% have been entangled at some point in their lives, most often by lobster trap ropes and other ropes. There are laws being put in place to try to conserve right whale populations, forcing the lobstering industry to use ropeless trap systems that cost thousands of dollars a trap, destroying the livelihoods of many lobstermen. This project aims to create a usable solution to both.

؜While systems exist to solve this, they are excessively overengineered and thus expensive, and have a much worse recovery rate. We aim to create an inexpensive buoy that fisherman can attach to an existing lobster trap to be stored underwater until a specified deployment time, at which point the buoy floats to the surface.

There is a solution.

Precedents

Conceptual, technical, and visual

؜ARC-1XD Acoustic Release & STM-3 Deck Box by Desert Star Systems

؜Offshore Lift by LiftLabs

Ropeless RISER by Ropeless Systems

Conceptual, technical, and visual

“If you suggest ropless gear, and have never hauled traps in a trawl string set-up around other trawl strings, you are effing ignorant and should shut your face.”

؜“FOLLOW THE MONEY!!!! Every time a whale dies, every published picture of a whale tangled in a rope, garners MILLIONS of dollars for CONSERVATION LAW FOUNDATION'S executive salaries.”

“Talk about a SPECIAL KIND OF STUPID, Ropeless Lobstering Gear that depends upon Cell Phone Service????”

“Not only is cell phone signal a problem. Knowing where other lobstermens strings are so you don’t set over them is another. Goes to show the people dreaming this stuff up have little to no time on deck.”

؜“No lobsterman that I know would agree to a map to show where ALLL there gear is. That is like playing poker and showing everyone your cards.”

؜“Don’t make a case for “ropeless” being a good idea ever. If this gets forced on the industry it will more or less kill it. Very bad news this stuff is”

؜“I was reading that the idea to prevent setting over up gear is to have the fishermen mark on a shared chart where they are fishing gear.

Sure, right after I post the combo to my safe online.”

“will take most sport and commercial folks out at 1,000-2,000$ a trap”

“So the retail price will be high and the guys spending all the money on the gear will make less...”

“Ropeless is a scam. As always follow the money, the people pushing this are invested financially in this technology.”

“For the people asking they have proposed a common database that will show where traps are on some sort of chart but will hide individual fishermens info. Its just stupid, we will all have to buy new electronics n addition to this technology which I have worked with in a previous job. There will be lots more ghost gear.”

“Even with ropes people have set on my traps or fouled the lines, with our currents the buoys tend to be a ways away from the trap, and of course everyone wants to set their traps "near" my buoys because obviously I know what I am doing.. “

Meet Mason Wallertson, Collective Persona

Age: 48

Occupation: Lobstering

Bio: Has been lobstering for 36 years, knows how all his equipment works. Would love to use ropeless systems but the high prices for very little benefit, as well as extra work keep him from buying any. He is also worried that the new regulations about ropeless traps being forced on the industry could hurt it significantly. One main gripe he has with the current systems is how lobstermen are expected to mark all their traps on a shared database.

؜“I was reading that the idea to prevent setting over up gear is to have the fishermen mark on a shared chart where they are fishing gear.

Sure, right after I post the combo to my safe online.”

Frustrations

+ Costs

+ Regulations

+ Complexity

+ Competition

Goals

+ Make money

+ Save whales without spending excessively

Skills

+ Lobstering

+ Boating

Wants

+ Simplicity

+ Low costs

+ To keep the same lifestyle

IMAGE

THE THREE PILLARS

1. Cost
2. Usability
3. Saving the Whales

Comparative Analysis

Whale Safety

؜Cost

Standard options

$100-$200

Common ones on market

$5000-$10000

Our buoy system

$200-$300

One feature that ours lacks is communication between the boat and the buoy, but we compensate for this with many redundant failsafes and extensive customizability

Sketches

Prototype 1 | Mechanical Release

Prototype 2 | Magnetic Release

Prototype 1 | Lobster detection

Prototype 2 | Lobster detection

Buoy Electronics (Not a bomb)

؜State diagram:

؜Half Scale Model

؜Full Scale Model

Next Steps:

1. Implement the lobster detection mechanism
2. Add the GPS modules and make a receiver
3. Do testing with real fishermen and in the Charles river

Thank You!

Project Statement

This project aims to create a wearable form of immediate comfort for people who suffer from panic attacks. Following research about current wearables for panic attacks specifically, comparing their qualities, and use that information to create a wearable that tracks, and responds immediately to oncoming stress.

؜Why?

؜Panic attacks can be debilitating, and really affect someone's quality of life especially if you suffer with a panic disorder. ؜We want to try and help people reclaim control over their lives.

"I can be writing my name and it’ll happen. My nervous system is just SO dysregulated. It makes me actually unable to form sentences, I am deciding if I should go to the ER, I can’t think, or feel."

"it’s escalated from panic attack for the 15min before I go up on stage, to hours curled up in the hotel bed the morning of a talk, to being physically ill for ten days before even traveling and then leaving the airport because I couldn’t get on the plane."

"I’ve had panic attacks that made me sure something was medically wrong - even after being told I’m healthy."

Precedents

؜Research Precedent

Name: Emotional Intelligence of Machines

Creator: Lokesh Zope

؜Technical Precedent

Name: Galvactivator

Creator: Rosalind Picard

MIT Media Lab

؜Visual Precedent

Name: Embr Wave

Creator: Elizabeth Gazda

Calendar/ Milestones for OI

Week 1

11/03 - 11/07

Week 2

11/03 - 11/07

Week 3

11/03 - 11/07

Monday

Thursday

Wednesday

Tuesday

؜Organize Next Steps

Pencils Down

Friday

Calender

Mid Reviews

brainstorming final design

Learn Arduino

g4g

Make Prototypes

g4g

؜Final Slides

Final Slides

g4g

talk about media lab tour, arduino prototyping

؜

decide final design

decide what wearable

revised lo-fi prototype

؜Project Thesis

؜Start 3d modeling final design

Sketches

Prototype # 1 | Sensor Configuration

Prototype # 2 | Compression Draft

؜| Next Steps |

2.) Combine prototypes

3.) Finalize design

1.) Incorporate sensors into prototypes

؜What is this?

The goal of LeetAgent is to create a website similar to LeetCode. The core difference is that LeetAgent will teach the user how to create AI agents and teach them how to use to Agno framework. This can be used by anybody with a basic knowledge of Python and it can help them develop skills to eventually make their own AI agents from scratch. By the end of this OI the goal is to have a website that has a large amount of information about how AI agents are made along with maybe 2-3 examples that the user can test.

؜Prior Knowladge

؜Before this studio I have built AI agents before. More specifically over the summer I had an internship where I worked on building AI agents and pairing them with LLMs to create synthetic traces (Logs of chats). From this I gained experience using frameworks like Agno, Pydantic, and Langgraph. From using these frameworks I found Agno was the easiest to learn and implement so I decided that was the best one to teach first.

؜Precedents

؜Initial Research

؜Initially I was looking into what made LeetCode good at teaching people how to code. Some of the important parts of LeetCode that contributed to learning was the instant feedback, the clear guides, and the ability to talk to others and see how they solved the issues. From this I though that the most important thing that I could do was give clear guides of how to create agents and how they can be used.

Who

؜Flowchart

؜What's next

1. ؜Setup more demos
2. Setup feedback for demos
3. Buy Claude tokens
4. User testing
5. Setup login and saving

Feedback

FINAL DISHES

Thesis

We wanted to learn how computers work in a way that many others could follow, so we chose Minecraft, one of the most popular video games out there.

Thesis Statement Option 1

The Who,What,Why, and How of the project (delete this)

Precedents

A few powerful minecraft computers have been created before, like this one by mattbatwings.

The Digi-comp was a fully-functioning computer sold in kit form.

Prototypes/ Iterations

Four-bit full adder

Four-bit half adder

1 bit of resettable ram

Flowchart of how the pong game works

Technical Diagrams

Processing unit >

Computer >

< Input Lock

< Screen

Final Photo

Final photo of project (delete this)

Final Photo

Final photo of project (delete this)

Final Video

Final photo of project (delete this)

Alternate pong game prototype

Solution 0.94

• Eco-Sort, a device that helps users in public spaces (for this project, NuVu) correctly dispose of waste
• It identifies items using AI and indicates the appropriate disposal bin
• Eco-Sort is more noticeable then a poster
• Makes recycling easier

NuVu Space 0.76

Improper waste management due to:

• Recycling & Poster Fatigue
• Wrong knowledge about recycling
• Lack of time for research

Problem 0.91

Recycling Poster 0.17

How can NuVu improve the recycling process for you?

"Definitely make a sign for what can be recycled"

- NuVu Student

Recycling block 0.35

Precedents 0.93

Oscar 0.48

EcoSorter 0.36

Problem 0.78

Problem 0.62

Precedents (Past Experiences) 0.93

Pasta Recovery 0.25



Robros 0.57

Concept Sketches 0.89



Label Sketches 0.6

User Design 0.76

AI model 0.99

AI code 0.99

Barcode Code 0.74

Barcode code 0.6

Terminal results 0.61

Cheddar Bunny Crackers 0.33

Barcode 0.9

Barcode look up results 0.1

AI Generated photo of the Eco-Sort 0.76

• We had limited time so we desided to focus on one method
• Ai is more versatile than barcodes.
• Ai aligned better with our goals as we wanted to

Why AI? 0.91

AI Workflow 0.74

1.

2.

3.

4.

5.

6.

Decide Classes

Collect Data

Annotate

Train

Test

Repeat

Decide classes 0.93

Cardboard 0.84

Plastic bags 0.84

Plastic Bag 0.94

Collect Data 0.95

Dataset on roboflow 0.99

Roboflow logo 0.99

Annotate 0.74

Train 0.95

test 0.95

repeat! 0.99

Future 0.68

• We hope to increase the range of items that our device and detect.
• We hope to integrate the model, and other design concepts such as part of the user interface into the device.
• We hope to get more user feedback on the device.
• We hope to look into ways the costumer can customize the device for whichever space it'll be in.