My idea comes from my personal experience. As a design student, I usually work until late without taking a rest. It is not a healthy habit. So, I designed a smart lamp. Photo resistor connect with a green led. LED will light up when it is dark which can help people find the light button in darkness. Temperature sensor can detect the temp of light bulb. If its cool, the green led will light. Otherwise, the red led will light up and start to blink. This is an alarm to tell you to take a rest now!!

In this project we investigate loop tools in use with clay.

We used these tools to try to bend a piece of metal in two directions, making it totally concave. This result ended up being more difficult to achieve then we thought.

Smart Cat Feeder is a connected product designed specifically for cat owners who are not able to feed their cat everyday. The product is consisted with 2 parts, a sensor to detect if the cat is in front of the food bowl and a sensor to tell the food dropper to stop giving food. I have used a light sensor to detect where the cat is, when the light sensor is covered by the cat's shadow, the product will recognize the cat is here. Food dropper will start to drop food to the bowl below until the pressure sensor tells it to stop. Every time the cat got fed, the owner will get an email from the Cloud.

Introducing, Smart Blinds! This system can sense when the light is coming in the windows and automatically lowers the blinds. An LED symbolizes the motor of the blinds. When the LED is on the blinds are being lowered. As the pressure sensor is pushed, symbolizing the blinds coming to their resting point and being closed, the LED turns off showing the motor in the blinds has stopped as well. If the desired light threshold is exceeded, the above process is initiated. Otherwise, when light is below the threshold, it is showing that it is not bright enough to have the blinds down and the blind motor is off as well. Ideally, this would be part of a bigger system where one could customize their thresholds to regulate the amount of light coming through their windows. This would automate the process so your house could accommodate your desired comfort levels and make these adjustments for you.

As part of the robotics in architecture conference a team at Carnegie Mellon University developed a contemporary application for the historic process of steam bending natural hardwoods using two industrial robots. Workshop Chairs: Thibault Schwartz, Joshua Bard, Richard Tursky

The Morphfaux designation comprises a set of projects involving the transfer of the handcraft skill of plastering to robotic systems. This particular entry is a sample to demonstrate the XSEAD system used within the IDeATe Human-Machine Virtuosity course during Spring 2015.

Taking a newly formatted trailer that I edited, and adding music and original sounds to create suspense, thrill, and wonder.