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Projects

Edit this page to join, add, or suggest a project and to adjust project status. To express interest in or join a project, add your name and contact the instructors or other participants. Be sure your contact information is on the people page so folks can reach you. To add or suggest a project, edit the project page to add a project title, then click the title to start a new project page from a template. Include a few photos, a brief description, references, and your name. To comment on a project, edit the project page for that project. Add only constructive comments or suggestions.

Active projects

• EEG Brain Computer Interfaces/Mind control

• Quadcopter Flies and carries a payload

• Troy project Archaeology and muography

• Homemade GPS Receiver Improving on your smartphone

• Bubble Stability A novel kind of bubble

• 3D printing Resources and suggested projects

• Graphene Micro-Supercapacitors Towards a cheap battery replacement

• High Altitude Balloon Close to space without a rocket

• Laser pointer safety Be wary of those pointers

• Drones, drones, and more drones Resources and project ideas

• Hammocks! Outdoor learning spaces for the 21st century

• Xbox Kinect for Instructional Labs So many markets for this...

• Website We need more than this wiki, eh?

• Sustainability Resources and suggested projects

• 3D Printer Recycling A personal recycler prototype

• Foucault Pendulum The Earth rotates. This demonstrates it.

• RC Helicopter A toy can inspire. Try a fuel cell to explore extending the range of UAVs generally.

• Receipts No thank you!

• 3D Food Printing Just imagine anything you want to eat...

Completed projects

If your project is complete or abandoned, please move the link here, document on the project page what you learned, suggest to others how to proceed further, and summarize the status of any equipment used.

• Personal Greenhouse Living Pantry for the inner city, 3rd world, and 1st world

• Grey Water Toilet Use that shower/bath water, OK?

Projects on Hold

• Fusor Homebrew fusion

Suggested projects

Note: Students, a number of you have signed on to express interest in suggested projects. A project is not a project until there is work. If you consider your project in an active state, meaning you are working on it at any level, please move the link below to the list of active projects and email Carlsmith.

• Buddha Board Sustainable white board

• CubeSats 10cmx10cmx10cm satellites

• Methane Digester Small-scale microbial digester that produces usable methane gas

• Biopowered GPS insect tracking Fly with the monarchs

• Robotic human voice How do we talk?

• 4D Photography Faster and volumetric

• Active mechanical stablization of structures Exercise in using parametric excitation

• Graphene loudspeaker Using a new material

• Hydrophone Use those earbud microphones to troll for sounds

• Controlling bioluminescence Luciferin

• iPhone technologies Smart phones are the tricorder of today

• Entrepreneurship clinic Resources on starting your own business

• Start-up weekend Launch a company in 48 hours

• Take apart a Laptop

• X-rays from peeling tape Maybe don't try this at home. Oh, you already did...

• Jawbone Wristband computer. Neck band? Ringband? Google Glass?

• DNA origami Programmed self-assembly of nanoscale containers, motors,...

• Develop demonstrations Physics needs you

• Supercooled Water An example demo

• DYI gadgets

• Thermoelectric devices Transmutation of energy in various forms remains foundational

• Education Helping K-12 and ourselves

• Art, Design, Architecture Ideas for projects blending art, science, and technology

Sources for inspiration

HUANG YI & KUKA - A DUET OF HUMAN AND ROBOT http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7moBSpAEkD4

Reverse engineering (KahnAcademy) https://www.khanacademy.org/science/projects/Reverse-Eng

Instructables: http://www.instructables.com/tag/type-id/category-technology/?&offset=14

Udoo: http://www.gizmag.com/udoo/27099/

Google Glass specs: http://www.gizmag.com/google-glass-specs/27087/

Biomedical engineering undergraduate projects archives: http://bmedesign.engr.wisc.edu/

Ingestible sensors: http://www.hqinc.net/thermodot/products/, http://proteusdigitalhealth.com/

Kickstarter projects: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1130494637/techstyle-haus-solar-decathlon-europe-2014, http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/143072809/rhode-island-mini-maker-faire-2013, http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/916029689/the-fab-lab-at-space, https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1697625937/the-tiltyimu-a-family-of-user-friendly-robotics-co, http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/374019694/balloon-chain-at-burning-man-2013

The walls have ears http://www.princeton.edu/main/news/archive/S37/69/38I40/index.xml?section=science

Design awards http://www.core77designawards.com/2013/recipients/

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