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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

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

• Website We need more than this wiki, eh?

• 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...

• Lidar Light Detection and Ranging for archaeological survey

• Mounds and petroglyphs 3D-models of Ouisconsin's heritage

• prINKart A photosensitive paper

• Research computing cluster Develop an undergraduate research computing cluster

• GoogleGlass Develop educational and other apps for Glass

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?

• Hivemind Hivemind seeks to create a revolutionary new way to interface with our day to day devices via the power of thought alone.

• Hammocks! Outdoor learning spaces for the 21st century

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.

• Visitor counter Help track the Physics Museum use

• Drones Drones, and more drones; resources and project ideas

• 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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• Crossing the goal line: New tech tracks football in 3-D space -- ScienceDaily http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/06/140613101659.htm?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+sciencedaily+%28Latest+Science+News+--+ScienceDaily%29. use photogrammetry on video

  Muon detector could help UK reduce carbon emissions -- ScienceDaily http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/06/140613084419.htm?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+sciencedaily+%28Latest+Science+News+--+ScienceDaily%29

  Buy lunch, pay with your hand: Vein scanning technique -- ScienceDaily http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/06/140612120426.htm?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+sciencedaily+%28Latest+Science+News+--+ScienceDaily%29

  Octocopter named “HorseFly” takes flight http://www.rdmag.com/news/2014/06/octocopter-named-%E2%80%9Chorsefly%E2%80%9D-takes-flight DARPA’s newest toy lets human scale vertical glass wall, just like Spider-Man

  http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2014/06/09/darpas-newest-toy-lets-human-scale-vertical-glass-wall-just-like-spider-man/?tid=hp_mm Nestlé claims credit for ‘major advance’ in beverage powder solubility

  http://www.beveragedaily.com/R-D/Nestle-claims-credit-for-major-advance-in-beverage-powder-solubility Drones give farmers eyes in the sky to check on crop progress

  http://www.rdmag.com/news/2014/06/drones-give-farmers-eyes-sky-check-crop-progress?et_cid=3978500&et_rid=517740405&location=top Millennial Trains Project

  http://crowdhitch.millennialtrain.co Clever Domino's Applies Physics Principles to Pizza Delivery

  http://mashable.com/2014/06/09/pizza-delivery-physics/ Reinventing the Physicist: Innovation and Entrepreneurship Education for the 21st Century

  http://www.aps.org.ezproxy.library.wisc.edu/programs/education/conferences/innovation.cfm Partners in the Sky: Aviation and Aerospace Industry Leaders Join the Smithsonian in Worldwide Conservation Efforts | Newsdesk

  http://newsdesk.si.edu/releases/partners-sky-aviation-and-aerospace-industry-leaders-join-smithsonian-worldwide-conservatio. 1-gram tracking devices just got a push! Extraordinary absorption of sound in porous lamella-crystals : Scientific Reports : Nature Publishing Group

  http://www.nature.com.ezproxy.library.wisc.edu/srep/2014/140414/srep04674/full/srep04674.html

  • Extraordinary absorption of sound in porous lamella-crystals J. Christensen, V. Romero-García, R. Picó, A. Cebrecos, F. J. García de Abajo, N. A. Mortensen, M. Willatzen & V. J. Sánchez-Morcillo Affiliations Contributions Corresponding author Scientific Reports 4, Article number: 4674 doi:10.1038/srep04674 Received 19 March 2014 Accepted 26 March 2014 Published 14 April 2014

  Guide to Silicon Valley Starup scene

• http://steveblank.com/visitors-guide/

  • The Public Forum Institute | Internships

    http://publicforuminstitute.org/about/internships/ The Public Forum Institute Intern Program offers college students the opportunity to live and work in Washington, D.C., gaining experience in government and public policy. Interns have direct contact with congressional staff, as well as members of the executive branch and other elected officials. Brigham Young Researchers Develop Google Glass System To Assist Deaf Students -- Campus Technology

    http://campustechnology.com/articles/2014/05/28/brigham-young-researchers-develop-google-glass-system-to-assist-deaf-students.aspx

    GEM Global Entrepreneurship Monitor http://www.gemconsortium.org Microbubble Compositions, Properties and Biomedical Applications http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2889676/ Medical things one can do with bubbles. Can you think of other applications? LIX - The Smallest 3D Printing Pen in the World by LIX — Kickstarter

    https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/lix3d/lix-the-smallest-3d-printing-pen-in-the-world Maker Faire | Find a Faire Near You

    http://makerfaire.com/map/ Robots transform into furniture at EPFL

    http://www.rdmag.com/videos/2014/05/robots-transform-furniture-epfl?et_cid=3953140&et_rid=517740405&type=cta Interesting concept. Make smaller differently? Make something that climbs a wall and then hauls itself up? A Woman Has Been Given A New 3D Printed Skull

    http://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/woman-has-been-given-new-3d-printed-skull

    3D Printed Cast Speeds Bone Recovery Using Ultrasound http://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/3d-printed-cast-speeds-bone-recovery-using-ultrasound

Winning Ag Prize teams address global food system challenges, from food spoilage to hunger | Wisconsin Institute for Discovery

• http://wid.wisc.edu/wid-culture/winning-ag-prize-teams-address-global-food-system-challenges-from-food-spoilage-to-hunger/?utm_source=May+2014+Newsletter&utm_campaign=Newsletters&utm_medium=email

Maker Commons – A Community of Makers | Commons In A Box http://commonsinabox.org/archives/1044 Replacement for wiki?

• World’s smallest magazine cover

  http://www.rdmag.com/videos/2014/04/world%E2%80%99s-smallest-magazine-cover?et_cid=3905015&et_rid=517740405&type=cta nanoscale drawing on plastic Blender whips up graphene | Science News

  https://www.sciencenews.org/article/blender-whips-graphene Auditory brainstem response to complex sounds: a tutorial

  http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2868335/ For cABRs, a vertical one-channel montage is the most common configuration. This configuration requires only three electrodes corresponding to the active (non-inverting), reference (inverting) and ground electrodes. In our lab, the preferred electrode placements are Cz (active), ipsilateral earlobe (reference), and forehead or contralateral earlobe (ground). We prefer to use the earlobe rather than the mastoid because it is a non-cephalic site that causes fewer artifacts from bone vibration (Hall 2006). For researchers who intend to record subcortical and cortical potentials simultaneously (see below), or who wish to collect them within the same session, cABRs can be recorded with an electrode cap. Flute Finger Hole Locations

  http://www.phy.mtu.edu/~suits/fingers.html Flutomat Javascript Flute Designer

  http://11wall-west.com/~ph_kosel/flutomat.html 3d cad and print? Advanced Tactics, Inc. | Home of the AT Black Knight TRANSFORMER

  https://www.advancedtacticsinc.com Internships in California for quadcopter VTOL Patent Lens Home

  http://www.patentlens.net/daisy/patentlens/patentlens.html California VC Greg Robinson to Lead Wisconsin’s 4490 Ventures | Xconomy

  http://www.xconomy.com/wisconsin/2014/03/04/california-vc-greg-robinson-to-lead-wisconsins-4490-ventures/ Forget wearable tech, embeddable implants are already here - CNN.com

  http://www.cnn.com/2014/04/08/tech/forget-wearable-tech-embeddable-implants/index.html National Robots Week Open House | Wisconsin Human-Computer Interaction Laboratory

  http://hci.cs.wisc.edu/national-robots-week-open-house/ Crowdfunding Site Raising Capital for ASU Student Projects -- Campus Technology

  http://campustechnology.com/articles/2014/04/03/crowdfunding-site-raising-capital-for-asu-student-projects.aspx Hmm. UW should have this!

  CollabFinder - Find A Cofounder http://collabfinder.com

  Headset & Accessories http://emotiv.com/store/headset.php WID Frontier Fellows take on exonerations, archaeological sites and science images with data | Wisconsin Institute for Discovery

  http://wid.wisc.edu/wid-culture/wid-frontier-fellows-take-on-exonerations-archaeological-sites-and-science-images-with-data/ Titanium dioxide - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Titanium_dioxide Turns out these are easy to make.

  R&D $ HERD 2012 Data Tables http://ncsesdata.nsf.gov/herd/2012/ Wind Industry’s New Technologies Are Helping It Compete on Price - NYTimes.com

  http://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/21/business/energy-environment/wind-industrys-new-technologies-are-helping-it-compete-on-price.html?ref=business&_r=0

http://www.altaerosenergies.com/

• firestarters: Emotional Arcade | IDFA DocLab http://www.doclab.org/2013/emotional-arcade/ XYZprinting Inc. – da Vinci 3D Printer $499 at Amazon

  http://us.xyzprinting.com/Product Soccer displays fractal dynamics

  http://www.rdmag.com/news/2014/03/soccer-displays-fractal-dynamics?et_cid=3832585&et_rid=517740405&type=cta Pretty naive video analysis on a system that could be interesting. Shapeways | About - How it works

  http://www.shapeways.com/about/how_does_it_work?li=home-learnmore [1402.7101] New type of microengine using internal combustion of hydrogen and oxygen

  http://arxiv.org/abs/1402.7101

  Agisoft PhotoScan Standard | www.agisoft.ru http://www.agisoft.ru/products/photoscan/standard/ Roomy Cages Built From DNA : Wyss Institute at Harvard

  http://wyss.harvard.edu/viewpressrelease/148/ Innovative solar-powered toilet developed by CU-Boulder ready for India unveiling | University of Colorado Boulder

  http://www.colorado.edu/news/releases/2014/03/12/innovative-solar-powered-toilet-developed-cu-boulder-ready-india-unveiling

  State of Inqenuity SOI SourceLink http://www.soisourcelink.com WI Drone 2013 Senate Bill 196

  http://docs.legis.wi.gov/2013/proposals/sb196 GenoCAD: CAD Software for Synthetic Biology

  http://www.genocad.org Posters in the Rotunda 2013

  http://www.wisconsin.edu/posters/ Epicenter: Creating a Nation of Entrepreneurial Engineers

  http://epicenter.stanford.edu Campuses | Dream. Design. Deliver.

  http://dreamdesigndeliver.org/about/ Someone interested in putting WI on this map. Dell Social Innovation Challenge

  http://www.dellchallenge.org/discover/projects The Awesome Foundation

  http://www.awesomefoundation.org/en Physics - Droplets Caught at High Speed

  http://physics.aps.org.ezproxy.library.wisc.edu/synopsis-for/10.1103/PhysRevApplied.1.014004 34 microsecs to form a drop Battery-free tech brings gesture recognition to all devices

  http://www.rdmag.com/videos/2014/02/battery-free-tech-brings-gesture-recognition-all-devices?et_cid=3795336&et_rid=517740405&type=cta Grants | NCIIA

  http://nciia.org/grants National Collegiate Inventors and Innovators Alliance

  Start it up :Mission & History | NFTE http://www.nfte.com/what/mission Org devoted to promoting entrepreneurship We The Geeks | The White House

  http://www.whitehouse.gov/we-the-geeks Laser-Sintering 3d printing

  http://www.rdmag.com/articles/2014/02/laser-sintering-effect?et_cid=3788672&et_rid=517740405&type=cta Global Space Balloon Challenge

  http://www.balloonchallenge.org Microscopy: A new phase for X-ray imaging : Nature : Nature Publishing Group

  http://www.nature.com.ezproxy.library.wisc.edu/nature/journal/v467/n7314/full/467409a.html A battery small enough to be injected, energetic enough to track salmon

  http://www.rdmag.com/news/2014/02/battery-small-enough-be-injected-energetic-enough-track-salmon?et_cid=3775592&et_rid=517740405&type=cta Students | AAAS 2014 Annual Meeting

  http://meetings.aaas.org/students/ Just down in Chicago, an earful for $70. Session: Nurturing Scientific Innovation and Entrepreneurship within the University Ecosystem (2014 AAAS Annual Meeting (13-17 February 2014))

  http://aaas.confex.com/aaas/2014/webprogram/Session6794.html RSA US Student Design Awards — An RSA Catalyst Project

  http://sda.rsa-us.org Stratasys introduces world’s first color multi-material 3-D printer

  http://www.rdmag.com/news/2014/01/stratasys-introduces-world%E2%80%99s-first-color-multi-material-3-d-printer?et_cid=3736667&et_rid=517740405&type=cta

  • Engineers at beta user Trek Bicycle in Waterloo, Wisc., are using the Objet500 Connex3 for assessment and testing of accessories like bike chain stay guards and handlebar grips prior to actual production. "The Objet500 Connex3 Color Multi-material 3D Printer changed the way we manufacture at Trek, augmenting our traditional, time-consuming CNC processes with fast, iterative and realistic prototyping and functional testing," says Mike Zeigle, manager of Trek's prototype development group.
  ‘Office hours’ on State Street offers informal advice to entrepreneurs (Jan. 27, 2014)

  http://www.news.wisc.edu/22484?utm_source=iUW&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=iUW2014-01-28 3-D printed soil reveals the world beneath our feet

  http://www.rdmag.com/videos/2014/01/3-d-printed-soil-reveals-world-beneath-our-feet?et_cid=3733746&et_rid=517740405&type=cta Interesting application of 3d-printing Penn State Launches Crowdfunding Campaign for Moonlander -- Campus Technology

  http://campustechnology.com/articles/2014/01/22/penn-state-launches-crowdfunding-campaign-for-moonlander.aspx Inkjet printing - the physics of manipulating liquid jets and drops - Abstract - Journal of Physics: Conference Series - IOPscience

  http://iopscience.iop.org.ezproxy.library.wisc.edu/1742-6596/105/1/012001 High-Speed Imaging of Drops and Bubbles - Annual Review of Fluid Mechanics, 40(1):257

  http://www.annualreviews.org.ezproxy.library.wisc.edu/doi/full/10.1146/annurev.fluid.40.111406.102215?prevSearch=searchText%253A%2528bubble%2529&searchHistoryKey= 3D Printed Food | BotBQ | The Open Source 3D Printing BBQ

  http://botbq.org/services/3d-printed-food/ Madison Startup Fair | Capital Entrepreneurs

  http://www.capitalentrepreneurs.com/startup-fair/

  PowerUp 3.0 App Toys | PowerUp Toys http://www.poweruptoys.com/pages/app-toys Technology uses micro-windmills to recharge cell phones - News Center - UT Arlington

  http://www.uta.edu/news/releases/2014/01/microwindmill-rao-chiao.php criticalmaking.com University of Toronto

  http://criticalmaking.com The critical making laboratory is a shared space for opening up the practice of experimentation with embedded and material digital technology to students and faculty in the Faculty of Information. The lab provides tools, materials, and training for building devices such as wearable computers, RFID systems, ubiquitous computing networks, and other physical computing technologies. Swivl personal cameraman

  http://www.swivl.com

  ArduSat - Your Arduino Experiment in Space by ppl4world — Kickstarter http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/575960623/ardusat-your-arduino-experiment-in-space Arts Business Symposium @ UW-Madison Continuing Studies

  http://continuingstudies.wisc.edu/conferences/arts-business-research-symposium/index.html?source=madisonartsbusiness.com/%C3%A2%E2%82%AC%C5%BD Open Source Ecology http://opensourceecology.org/index.phpUW Physics alum Marcin Jakobowski's project Students showcase wearable computing projects, design thinking (Dec. 19, 2013)

  http://www.news.wisc.edu/22403?utm_source=iUW&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=iUW2013-12-19 Superpedestrian - The Copenhagen Wheel

  https://www.superpedestrian.com PNNL: News - Algae to crude oil: Million-year natural process takes minutes in the lab

  http://www.pnnl.gov/news/release.aspx?id=1029 Contact | UW Rapid Prototyping Consortium

  http://prototype.wisc.edu/contact DROP AND SPRAY FORMATION FROM A LIQUID JET - Annual Review of Fluid Mechanics, 30(1):85

  http://www.annualreviews.org.ezproxy.library.wisc.edu/doi/abs/10.1146/annurev.fluid.30.1.85 Lionhead 3D Printer and 3D Scanner with Li Modeling Software by Radiant Fabrication — Kickstarter http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/radiantfabrication/lionhead-3d-printer-and-3d-scanner-with-li-modelin Outgrowth of rapid prototyping center

  Harvesting waste plastic for 3D printers to reduce poverty: Plastic Bank : TreeHugger http://www.treehugger.com/clean-technology/harvesting-waste-plastic-reduce-poverty-plastic-bank.html Engineer designs mug to keep coffee temperature just right

  http://www.rdmag.com/news/2013/12/engineer-designs-mug-keep-coffee-temperature-just-right?et_cid=3653754&et_rid=517740405&type=cta How to Teach Entrepreneurship -- Campus Technology

  http://campustechnology.com/Articles/2013/10/16/How-to-Teach-Entrepreneurship.aspx?Page=1 Print Your Own 3D Learning Objects -- Campus Technology

  http://campustechnology.com/Articles/2013/12/04/Print-Your-Own-3D-Learning-Objects.aspx?Page=1 Video: A flying robotic jellyfish? Prototype proves it's possible - latimes.com

  http://www.latimes.com/science/sciencenow/la-sci-sn-flying-robot-jellyfish-insects-bioinspired-engineering-20131125,0,1118474.story#axzz2mKaPFGeo%C2 The engineering behind additive manufacturing and the 3-D printing revolution

  http://www.rdmag.com/news/2013/12/engineering-behind-additive-manufacturing-and-3-d-printing-revolution?et_cid=3638079&et_rid=517740405&type=headline

Associated Students of Madison approves 2015 Green Fund | Office of Sustainability

• http://sustainability.wisc.edu/news-and-events/associated-students-of-madison-approves-2015-green-fund/

Amazon proposes cargo drone

• http://www.nytimes.com/2013/12/03/technology/amazon-delivers-some-pie-in-the-sky.html?nl=todaysheadlines&emc=edit_th_20131203&_r=0

Open-Source Lab, 1st Edition | Joshua Pearce | ISBN 9780124104624

• http://store.elsevier.com/Open-Source-Lab/Joshua-Pearce/isbn-9780124104624/

Michigan Tech Open sustainability technology, Joshua Pearce

• http://www.mse.mtu.edu/~pearce/

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