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=== Active projects ===
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 * [[EEG]] Brain Computer Interfaces/Mind control

 * [[Quadcopter]] Flies and carries a payload

 * [[Troy project]] Archaeology and muography
=== Active projects (2014-15) ===
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 * [[3D printed musical instruments]] A trumpet has 28 parts. No problem.

 * [[Tests of gravitational time dilation]] Your feet aren't aging at the same rate as your head when you are standing.

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

 * [[Methane Digester]] Small-scale microbial digester that produces usable methane gas.

 * [[3D Printer Recycling]] A personal recycler prototype, year 2.

=== Completed projects (2013-14) ===
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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.
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 * [[EEG]] Pattern recognition based on electrical pickup for Brain Computer Interfaces/Mind control

 * [[Quadcopter]] Large one to carry a payload, international collaboration

 * [[Troy project]] Archaeology, muography, tomography algorithms,...
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 * [[Bubble Stability]] A novel kind of bubble

 * [[3D printing]] Resources and suggested projects
 * [[Bubble Stability]] A novel kind of bubble and blowing smoke

 * [[3D printing]] Resources and suggested projects. Start with something from Thingiverse
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 * [[High Altitude Balloon]] Close to space without a rocket

 * [[Laser pointer safety]] Be wary of those pointers
 * [[3D Food Printing]] Just imagine anything you want to eat...

 * [[Research computing cluster]] Develop an undergraduate research computing cluster

 * [[Receipts]] No thank you! Starting with UW campus.

 * [[High Altitude Balloon]] Close to space without a rocket, a tracked flight to 100,000' above Madison

 * [[Website]] We need more than this wiki, eh?

 * [[prINKart]] A photosensitive paper

 * [[Mounds and petroglyphs]] 3D-models of Ouisconsin's heritage

 * [[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

 * [[Foucault Pendulum]] The Earth rotates. The Foucault pendulum demonstrates it.

 * [[Laser pointer safety]] Be wary of the blue and green pointers.

 * [[Fusor]] Homebrew fusion

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=== Suggested projects ===
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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.

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 * [[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

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=== Completed projects ===
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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

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=== Projects on Hold ===
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 * [[Fusor]] Homebrew fusion

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=== Suggested projects ===
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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.

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 * [[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
 * [[GoogleGlass]] Develop educational and other apps for Glass.

 * [[Lidar]] Light Detection and Ranging for archaeological survey.

 * [[RC Helicopter]] Try a fuel cell to explore extending the range of UAVs generally.

 * [[Visitor counter]] Help track the Physics Museum use, sell that product to say Walmart.

 * [[Drones]] Drones, and more drones; resources and project ideas.

 * [[Buddha Board]] Sustainable white board.

 * [[CubeSats]] 10cmx10cmx10cm satellites free for student use.

 * [[Biopowered GPS insect tracking]] Fly with the monarchs.
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 * [[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...
 * [[4D Photography]] Faster and volumetric optical and near optical sight

 * [[Active mechanical stabilization of structures]] Exercise in using parametric excitation.

 * [[Graphene loudspeaker]] Using a new material.

 * [[Hydrophone]] Use those ear bud microphones to troll for sounds.

 * [[Controlling bioluminescence]] Luciferin rocks.

 * [[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]] So, um, what is inside a laptop, iphone or droid, ipad, itouch,....
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 * [[Develop demonstrations]] Physics needs you  * [[Develop demonstrations]] Physics needs you to improve our classes.
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 * [[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
 * [[DYI gadgets]] Stuff you can MAKE.

 * [[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.
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=== The Fun theory ===

Making a staircase into a piano gets people to choose it rather than the escalator. Can you make a game of something to solve a problem?
http://www.thefuntheory.com/award-entries

Projects

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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 (2014-15)


Completed projects (2013-14)


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.



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.


More suggestions

The Fun theory

Making a staircase into a piano gets people to choose it rather than the escalator. Can you make a game of something to solve a problem? http://www.thefuntheory.com/award-entries

Lenticular printing

Prints that project 3d images and animations http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lenticular_printing

http://www.vicgi.com/lenticular-tutorials.html

Send to this or other commercial print house http://www.snapilypro.com/

Light field cameras

Capture the angles and positions of photons

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Light-field_camera, http://www.raytrix.de/index.php/Cameras.html ,http://www.raytrix.de/index.php/3d_video_en.html, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lytro, http://cameramaker.se/plenoptic.htm

Photographic processes

Explore albumen, autochrome, calotype, carbon, collotype, cyanotype, daguerreotype, platiumum

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyanotype

http://www.vam.ac.uk/content/articles/p/photographic-processes/

http://www.vam.ac.uk/page/p/photography/?utm_source=vam.ac.uk&utm_medium=redirect&utm_content=legacy&utm_campaign=photography-2012&processid=pr012&row=2

Acoustics: Follicle mites and small scales

I wonder what follicle mites sound like...

Acoustic ecology http://www.acousticecology.org/presentation/index.html, http://www.acousticecology.org/soundscapelinks.html

MOMA : Acoustics: Subtleties of the sonic : http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v500/n7464/full/500526a.html?WT.ec_id=NATURE-20130829

Acoustics: Sound engineering

Bottling up sound waves: Acoustic bottle beams hold promise for imaging, cloaking, levitation and more, http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/08/140804151512.htm?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+sciencedaily+%28Latest+Science+News+--+ScienceDaily%29

Generation of acoustic self-bending and bottle beams by phase engineering, http://www.nature.com.ezproxy.library.wisc.edu/ncomms/2014/140703/ncomms5316/full/ncomms5316.html

A Macroscopic Tractor Beam with Acoustic Waves http://physics.aps.org.ezproxy.library.wisc.edu/articles/v7/46


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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Links/ideas

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

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

http://www.altaerosenergies.com/

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

Amazon proposes cargo drone

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

Michigan Tech Open sustainability technology, Joshua Pearce


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