aristotleofmythoughts

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...

 blueprint 2025: nothole wins beginner 1st place This past weekend I went to hackmit blueprint, a hackathon MIT hosts every year. I learned so much in this hackathon, built nothole in the hardware track, and surpassed all my expectations when my team actually won a prize (I am so excited for my raspberry kindle)!! I have two posts for this-- one for my experience, and one for my actual project. What I learned: *Perseverance is an engineer's greatest asset--> our team had to pivot SO MANY times from changing sensors to server architecture to continuously rebooting our ESP because WiFi kept being offline. 3 hours before submission our project was COOKED.  *I was inspired to up my ML game because I was fascinated by the kinds of cool projects people built around me. *I was also encouraged to go to more hackathons with a lot more experience (and win!) like I do for MUN-- I realized there is this whole hacker community that I need to delve into  *I am adaptable and can lear...