2020 Cohort Showcase

Erica Schug

For many travelers, finding an efficient and safe method for packing is a struggle.

Many struggle with over packing and having too much to carry, while some do not bring enough and are unprepared for their trip.In addition, the efficiency of many travelers’ luggage is sacrificed when they arrive at locations that have varying conditions (such as the beach/river where bags may become wet/sandy, or when hiking where carrying too much is a burden).

A solution is to create an all-in-one, conveniently sized water bottle that has compartments for the essentials and protected pockets for other items.

Mukund Ramakrishnan

Older individuals with limited dexterity may struggle with turning doorknobs with their hands. With this design, the door will be unlatched by pushing the pedal with one's foot. The Arduino Uno and two ultrasonic sensors installed will detect small movements of the pedal, which will in turn disengage the latch electro-mechanically. The door can then be pushed open or closed.

Jun Hin Loi

The COVID-19 Portable Testing Device is designed to create a self-assessment tool that is able to test AND provide results within the same day all in one device. Without having to send samples back to the lab, it reduces the risk of spreading the disease between traveling, first-responders, testing sites, etc. and reducing time it takes to get results

Tian Ern

A touch-less plug with infrared proximity sensor.

Rohin Arte

Designed for workplace individuals, the Portable Air Purifier aims to deliver clean air in office cubicles and car rides. Key product features include: ease of disassembly for maintenance and replacement, efficacy in cramped spaces, ergonomic design and portability.

Jennifer Liu

This automatic page-turner mechanically turns pages of a book by sensing a head nod. Attached to the bottom back cover of a book, the box containing two motorized arms will replicate and complete the action of a page turn. This product aims to solve problems concerning accessibility, allowing individuals with physical immobilities have access to recreational activities without being restricted.

Melanie Alpert

The Self-Watering Plant Container was designed for workplace setting to combat the issue of forgetting or not being present to water your plants. The soil moisture sensor will detect when the water level in the soil is too low and activate the water pump to send water through the tubing to each of the four plant containers.

Kevin Bui

The WEVA robot addresses issues within the healthcare industry pertaining to disease transmission amongst healthcare professionals through personal protective equipment (PPE) sterilization. This autonomous robot operates with high maneuverability to avoid obstacles and prevent obstructing workflow. The sensors within the device allows for detection of foreign objects, creating safe and reliable sterilization of PPE and reducing exposure to contaminated equipment.

Gopinath Kumar

The product I designed is a motorized monitor stand that receives inputs from a remote and moves an attached monitor up or down. The movement is driven by a gear and an electric motor that is controlled by an Arduino Uno board and an IR Receiver sensor.

Sahitya Bishnoi

The product is 'Smart Vacuum Cleaner'. It is designed for people who do not have time to manually clean their surroundings or operate the machine. It can be used in workplaces and even in homes. The working principle is same as that of a normal vacuum cleaner, but it gets an edge over them due to its Portability and Self-Operation.

Nathaniel L Ocañas

Sanitizing Cards w/ Liquid Sanitizer in a Box. The best way is to leave it up to the venue as added value of service to sanitize your cards. Similar to the sanitizer dispenser on the wall or the pump version at the cash register, sanitizing your cards can work the same way. A modular system where a card can be fed-in to be sterilized.

Stephen Yang

Online learning is one way students and teachers are dealing with the absence of physical learning spaces and campus resources. As people utilize more virtual resources, eye strain and fatigue becomes an increasingly prominent issue, which can further develop into conditions like myopia. While there is no way to eliminate the source of eye strain, such as the virtual textbooks and lectures students interact with, there are certainly steps that we can take to minimize damage to our sensitive corneas. One such method is the 20/20/20 rule: Every 20 minutes, look at something 20 feet away for 20 seconds.

The current gap is the lack of physical technology that enforces good eye care. The scope of this project is to create an easy to assemble hardware component that helps students relieve the burden on their eyes by implementing the 20/20/20 rule.

Louis Li

The Soundcrow is a motion-activated speaker that plays a pre-programmed predator sounds to ward off potential garden pests. It aims to ward away garden pest without the use of fences or pesticides.

Victoria Chen

The Product is an automated medicine dispenser

Soham Shah

Many students press the snooze button on an alarm too many times, causing them to wake up late and be late for school/class.

This is an alarm clock with 4 sensors and Arduino for sound, with sensors that have to be touched in a specific order to turn off the alarm, in a new order each day. Buttons are labeled 1-4, and the button to be pressed next is highlighted. Students have to consciously think about which button to press, making them less likely to press snooze once their minds are already active.

Vighnesh Raja

This product reminds older adults to wear a mask when going outside by scanning their face at the door. If the user isn't wearing a mask it sends a notification to their phone and dispenses a face mask. The user can click a button on their phone and the dispensed mask will retract if they choose not to wear it.

Harini Senthilkumar

The Controlled Cabinet will minimize the chance of kitchen injuries in older adults. This product includes LED sensors that will allow users to locate items without eye strain and contains a temperature sensor to provide alerts if food is being stored at an unsafe temperature. The automatically closing doors will reduce the chances of bumping and tripping on the cabinet.

Zahra Saeed

Elders tend to get more dehydrated than younger people because of various factors such as their memory and side effects of their medications. They also tend to take more medications as they age. This device aims to light up a water bottle to remind elders to take their pills, hydrate, and self-dispenses their pills for them when needed.

Vicky Yang

This product is a rotating condiment shelf that uses voice detection.This product will make it easier for the visually impaired to help themselves to their own condiments. Each compartment has a specific word associated with it and when the microphone picks up the word, it will spin to the corresponding condiment.

Celine Cherian

Lift-Ez was designed for the purpose of helping parents and older adults lift heavy items in their daily lives. Lift-Ez is able to raise, lower, and direct a heavy item to where the older adult would like with the help of a simple remote control. This helps prevent future body pains from lifting heavy items.

Tue Nguyen

Due to COVID-19, campus that allows students to return will be implementing strict social-distancing procedures; therefore, we need a safe way to socialize. This Bluetooth speaker is waterproof, lightweight, and portable, and provides students and young adults great way to socialize.

Vishal Ravi

Traditionally, students lay textbooks or other reading material flat on a surface to read them and have to either hunch their backs to read with their eyes directly over the words, or they can keep their backs straight and settle for reading words on the page at an angle, which instead places the strain on the eyes. Because both outcomes are less than ideal, this aims to find a better alternative by making a simple rotating book stand, with tilt controlled by 2 stepper motors hooked up to the Arduino Uno. There is a control surface (a joystick in my case) attached to the device; it sends the signal to the Arduino to activate the motors.

Sejal Sekhar

This is a disinfecting dispenser attached to desks, aimed at increasing student safety during COVID-19.

Karnati Harsharvardhan

This is a mobile charger that one can attach to a bicycle, charging the rider's mobile phone using the bicycle's mechanical energy.

Amardeep Singh

Inflatable bag that breaks a hiker’s fall when climbing steep hills. Travellers, especially hikers, are always endangered by potential landslides, steep valleys and uneven terrain that can cause falls and impairments. Coupled with problems of limited oxygen at high altitudes and extreme temperatures, such incidents are exacerbated. The solution presented here is partially inspired by the Armadillo shelled backpack, but combines a special compartment for an inflatable harness that can expand and break falls. To account for the deployment, a lever is attached to the system along with a mini cylinder to instantaneously fill it with air. A small sensor that detects altitude changes, similar to an altimeter, is attached to deploy the harness automatically in case of slips and skids.

Tara Donohue

A backpack insert that fits within the main pocket of a typical hiking bag. The insert includes three dividers that can be repositioned in order to create four sections of any size.

George Ghandour

Assistive technology device aimed at improving the ability for older people or people with arthritis to do tasks that require more strength

Nelusha Dias

The Therapeutic Exoskeleton is designed in place of a physical therapist, who can take away a patient’s sense of independency. This product uses muscle sensors placed along the consumer’s legs and gait sensors under their feet so that the exoskeleton gradually puts in less work, causing the consumer to put in more effort to move, which builds up their muscles.

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