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^^meet wearable Soliss  So I spent most of last weekend on the floor of UPenn's Levine building (crazy deja vu I was literally right here for Upenn scioly in March). I slept 7 hours of the 36 hour hackathon and coded like mad for the rest of it (no seriously I fell asleep while CODING). I didn't win an award this time, but built a super cool FUNCTIONAL WEARABLE : D (I applied skills from BWSI!)  1) What is Soliss? Over my 36 h - 7h = 29h journey, I built Soliss with a team I found at the hackathon. This was a wearable that could track excess UV radiation hitting the skin and remind the wearer to reapply sunscreen. The wearable also connected to an app which allowed the user to track overall danger levels of UV radiation on their skin (calculated via a formal algorithm, and personalized to the user's demographic etc). Personally, I created the wearable part of the project (so all the hardware etc). In my 29 hours I prototyped/designed, breadboarded, coded, and the hardest pa...

This was my final project at BWSI, and part of the reason I received the Dr. Bob Berman Disruptive Tech Award for e-textiles this year for BWSI. I'm so excited about it and plan to continue it in the coming months.  I have so much to say in this post, but for now I'll just share screenshots of my portfolio document and go on and on about it when I'm not compromising on sleep lol: Up Next:  -Experimenting with more motors  -Inserting batteries  -Expanding health monitoring UI! 

  As part of my BWSI summer course we were prompted to build a light up purse with embedded neopixels. It was supposed to be an introduction to machine sewing, e-sewing, and integrating electronic parts into textiles. As someone who had never sewn before, I found that to be the most challenging part of this exercise. 1. The idea prototype sketch    I came up with a forest scene for my purse, since I wanted it to tell a story. The idea is that the snap on the purse (that I would hand sew on) would act as a switch, which turned on the lights on the front side of the purse. These lights would have bear paws going to trees embroidered on them, and would light up sequentially to make it seem like the bear paws are "going" to the trees. Then, when you opened up the purse, the switch would be "off" and sensing this, the circuit would direct another neopixel which is stationed on the nose of a bear print inside the fold of the purse to blink red (simulating a "rudolph ...

  I'm really excited that this summer I've gotten the amazing opportunity to be part of BWSI's (beaver works summer institute) E-textiles course-- not only do I get the chance to continue my interest in e-textiles, but I also to live next to Charles River and walk through MIT campus to classes for a month! [that the program has given me salads for lunch for the past two weeks is secondary lol] For this post, I've separated my (so far) packed summer into a few categories:  1. exploring Boston/Cambridge  So I was lucky enough that my amazing sister (MIT alumni, 5 yr Cambridge resident) gave me a list of amazing things to do in the Boston area! I've been systematically making my way through the list whenever I'm not working on my projects. So far I've had amazing cuisine: Italian @ North end, Afghani food @ Helmland, Ice cream @ Toscanini's, and um...caprese sandwiches and 5 different varieties of salad for lunch every day at BWSI (I actually don't mind...

My first research experience: I wrote a literature review on The Application of E-textiles in Monitoring Heart Failure  for the regional science fair. I was mostly doing it for the experience as I've been fascinated with research but have been unsure of how to start with it-- an upperclassmen recommended me to do a literature review to start. TNJSF gave this amazing opportunity for the first time ever, and I took it!  I realized after getting there that everyone had their posters printed out, whereas mine looked not so...professional. But we live and learn! I was proud of how I talked about my research and how I answered technical questions presented by the judges. I ended up receiving the Topic Presentation award at the fair!  I also had other cool experiences through this fair: I saw interesting experimental research projects that I want to dive into next year, learned what it takes to win big awards (is ISEF a pipe dream?) at a competition like this through looking at ...

nothole in the making...still integrating the sensor and ESP here what is a...nothole? Nothole is a sensor system on a car that can sense potholes + their severity + their location, and send this back to a central server application that can consolidate this data for usage by government officials and construction workers to provide for more efficient repavement of roads. This project won my group 1st place in HackMIT Blueprint's beginner track!  we had two parts: sensor (ultrasonic sensor) + server system via ESP8266   So technically...pothole detection has been done before (there are whole articles on it). What HASN'T been done before is consolidating it on a server. Ideally, we wanted to make a Google Maps application (using the JS API) but couldn't since we ran out of time in the 7 hours we had to build this. My partners, Jasper and Alex, focused on making the ultrasonic sensors work without fault + setting up the demonstration. On the other hand, I spent my hours figu...