Our project is a wearable dress made from thrifted, recycled, and found materials, inspired by the ecosystems of the ocean to highlight its beauty. Through this creation, we aim to shine light on the pressing issue of environmental waste (particularly fast fashion and plastic pollution) threatening our oceans ecosystems. By merging sustainability with fashion, we seek to raise awareness and inspire tangible action toward ocean conservation.

• 92 MILLION TONS of textile waste is produced each year
• Average US consumer throws away 81.5 Ib of clothing every year
• The fashion industry is responsible for 20% global water waste

• 33 BILLION Ib of plastic enters the ocean every year
• An estimated 75 to 199 MILLION tons of plastic waste currently in the ocean

Next steps:

• Prototype and incorporate motors in both the tentacles and the skirt
• Add more tentacles
• Make more/better accesories
• Have a person model the dress
• Share the dress/story with a larger audience ex: social media, fashion show, news

Precedents

TI 84 Calculator

 A calculator that can calculate pi built entirely on a breadboard

Sketches

Diagrams

OR Gate

XOR Gate

sample footage

What do we want the virtual logic sim to do?

How many bits will the calc need to be?

Thesis Statement

Binary calculator is a calculator made out of the lowest level components feasible so that we could learn more about how computers work at the simplest levels, and secondarily to teach people who are interested in computers more about them in a hands on way.

TI 84 Calculator

A calculator built entirely on a breadboard

Visual Precedent

Technical Precedent

Precedents

Sketches

XOR Gate

Diagrams

OR Gate

Full Adder

AND Gate

sample footage

Rough Drafts

AND Gate Prototype

OR Gate Prototype

Multiplier (Made Digitally)

Challenges

• We had a couple issues with the adder circuit, with making sure all the components were working and figuring out which didn't
• we ordered chips to use for logic gates we ordered the wrong type.

Next Steps

• Build

Thank You!

TI 84 Calculator

A calculator that can calculate pi built entirely on a breadboard

Precedents

Visual Precedent

Technical Precedent

Sketches

XOR Gate

Diagrams

OR Gate

Full Adder

sample footage

Rough Drafts

AND Gate Prototype

OR Gate Prototype

Goals

• Make a multiplier.
• Make the multiplier take more inputs/outputs
• Maybe, make a case

Should we make a physical or virtual version of this?

If we were to make a physical one, how should we use surface mount logic gates?

Questions for Audience

Next Steps

Next, we're going to work on building larger pieces digitally, specifically trying to make a multiplier, and making another full adder on perfboard.

Thank You!

Project Statement

A 9-button macro pad designed for customizable actions, capable of performing any task that can be executed via keystrokes, terminal commands, or application shortcuts. This device is powered by a Raspberry Pi Pico W and programmed using CircuitPython through the Thonny IDE. Its primary purpose is to streamline repetitive or complex tasks, such as remembering multi-button keyboard shortcuts, by automating them into single, easy-to-use buttons.

Precedents

Sketches

Final Sketch

What Changed

Throughout my prototype I was focusing on how to keep a nice and small design while also allowing the wiring to be simple. At first I was trying to make small holes to route the wires through but as i moved on i moved towards an open center. Along with small pegs to hold up the protoboard

Tech Diagram

Protoboard 7cmx5cm

Pi Pico W

Pegs to hold board

Hole for Pi wire

Case (PLA)

Final

Reflections

• Got a website to help customize the code
• A nice looking case that secures the buttons
• Wiring fully complete and connected to the Pi Pico W

Thesis

First aid is an important skill. Knowing it helps you recover more quickly from injuries and accidents, and helps you know when to escalate to calling your doctor or 911. Despite how important it is, it's not commonly taught in schools. First Aid Guidebook aims to present common first aid information in an easily and quickly accessible format because safety is for everyone.

Precedents

First aid kit

The stuff you need in one place

Airplane safety instruction cards

Simplistic art style mainly focused on people doing things

Prototypes/ Iterations

Reflections

• I think I got a decent amount of stuff done
• Most of the feedback I got was really good, though I wasn't able to implement all of it.
• I wish I was actually able to get in contact with a real nurse or EMT, that never really worked out.
• If I was going to continue this I'd just add a lot more pages, I already have ideas for pages on allergies, concussions, and frostbite/heat exhaustion.

G4G catch-up

You can use this as a starting point in the "edit project section"

Complete with at least 3 sentences

Virtual solution

Virtual solution

Mimics the office

Virtual solution

Mimics the office

Bridges physical gaps

low opacity rectangle overlayed and main points given about why the UI/Ux is hard to aproachmaybe red arrows

Nontraditional software keybinds

Nontraditional software keybinds

Confusing iconography

Confusing iconography

Non-tech savvy clients

Nontraditional software keybinds

Welo has low retention rates

- Henrique Lima, Growth Marketer at Welo

Welo wednesday

How can we fix this?

We will have our character Willy-Welo acting as a virtual tour guide, using Welo as any other user would by joining calls, speaking, and finally sending and receiving messages which will all be hard-coded, essentially an interactive cutscene. This would help the users fully understand and build muscle memory of the basic tools by doing exactly what they would be doing in a real work environment

Storyboards

I'm developing this project further with storyboards because of the time investment to benefit for Welo ratio. Storyboards also allow me to rapidly prototype at a scale impossible with other methods

Thank you!

Appendix

Thesis

Pick Smith is a set of custom banjo picks, that provide support and style to the wearer. This project is a material study in metalworking and wearable supports, reimagining banjo picks through traditional metalsmithing techniques.

Pick smith is a project based on creating a set of banjo picks that will support my fingers as well as giving me the opportunity to learn traditional metalworking techniques at NuVu

Origionaly this project was just going to be a brace for my pinky is double joineted and supporting it would make playing less painful

After learning how to rivet and making some prototypes

I landed on this prototype, that did exactly what I needed it too. But there is much more i can do with this project, so i decided to make a full set of metal finger picks.

I started with my pointer and middle finger, the design of these aimed to stay true to a regular banjo pick but into the riveting to make sure the set was cohesive

Lastly I did the thumb. I chopped a plastic thumb pick in half and rivetted the plastic to a metal base that I made, and it came out like this

Final Photo

Final photo of project (delete this)

• I learned new metal working techniques that could be done here at NuVu for my future projects.

Reflections

• Finding a place to work at NuVu was difficult

FOundations for bringing metal into future nuvu projects

• The pinky brace works but will but will take time to get used to
• The picks are chunky because I only had a lower gauge brass to work with.

Thank You!