Tuesday, October 29, 2013

Westwood on the Cuttng Edge

Robert Sitbon
Westwood on the Cutting Edge
 
Research
 
Emotiv Insight:
The Emotiv Insight is a wireless headset that connects to an app on your phone and the headset reads your brainwaves to do commands. For example the headset can see your focus on a certain subject and seds the data to the app and you can see the amount of focus you had on it.
 
Raspberry Pi:
The Raspberry Pi is a credit card sized computer which can do anything a normal computor can do. It can download things and run programs. What the business that is making this hopes to do is to use the computer to help kids learn how to program.
 
Arduino Intel Galileo:
This is a circuit board that can be used to test prototypes. For example people can test LED's responding to social media or projects on home automation.
 
Makerbot Digitilizer:
The Makerbot printer is a 3D printer able to take digital models and use a plastic medium to build the model.
 
     Brainstorm
 
 
Using the Makerbot Digitilizer
 
 
1. We can use this as a way to layout things we are building. We can use it before we design something or during. For example we design a table and download it to the makerbot's program and make the printer print out a model of the table before we build it. This idea is especially good because these miniature models can show flaws in the design before you build the real thing to find the larger flaws.
 
 
 
List of other ideas:
1. We can use the arduino by creating a motor which can be used to motorize the joint on the catapults later in the year.
 
2. We can use the makerbot printer to make puzzles
 
3. We can use the raspberry pi to download music and creat a playlist for the class.
 
4. We can use the Emotiv Insight to read everyones brainwaves.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 




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