LATEST PROJECTS
Heart Rate Responder
Heart Rate Responder - Present
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As Technical Team Executive Chair of the National Society of Black Engineers, I am responsible for selecting a team project to work on throughout the school year. This year, the Health Maker Lab Competition executives reached out to me asking if we would be willing to work with one of the winners of their competition. Through the competition, we receive $10,000 of funding to help bring our team's project to life. The project we will bring to life is a necklace that will be able to alert people when you are having a heart attack. When a person finds you, the necklace will be able to aid in explaining how to perform CPR while waiting for the ambulance to arrive. Not only this, but the necklace will be positioned right where CPR should be applied and will contain a pressure sensor letting the person giving CPR know how their pressure level is. We are currently brainstorming ideas and will be prototyping with Arduino to begin.
NSBE Beginner Projects
NSBE Beginner Projects - Present
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Because we had so much interest in our Tech Team for the National Society of Black Engineers in 2019-2020 school year, I decided that it would be the most beneficial for everyone if we had different skill levels for our projects. For the students who did not have a lot of experience in technology, I placed them into the Beginner Projects. We decided to work on a robotic car that came in a kit and runs through Arduino. Through this, I taught the students basic electronics and programming while we assembled the chasis. For some, this project was perfect, but I noticed that the project seemed a little easy for others. Thus, we split into seperate projects again and some began a miniature arcade using a raspberry pi that would really push a few of the students out of their comfort zones. We are still in the planning and buidling phases of both projects, but results will be shared after more progress is made!
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Fitness
4All
Fitness 4All - 2018
Fitness 4All is a computer program I made in C++ in the last 2 weeks of the summer of 2018. A few people in my family have type 2 diabetes; so, health and fitness are very important to me. I want to create a program that will motivate people to go to the gym and create a solid routine. There are a lot of existing workout apps and programs that produce workouts allow you to log your workout, but I have yet to find one that you don't have to pay a monthly fee to use. That is why I decided to just create my own. The program is able to have multiple users using text files and recognize if you have used it before by the name you input. When you create your account, it gives you a list of workouts for which you enter starting weights. It then asks if you would like to work out your upper body, legs, abs, or back. Each time you pick one of these choices, it will randomly produce a few exercises for you in that body group. One of the benefits is that this program selects the workouts at random. This variation of exercises allows you to work out more muscles and keep it exciting. When it gives you your workout, it also records the workout and the time. Also, after you complete your workout, you can come back to the program and report how the exercises went. If you relay that the exercises went well, it will randomly increase the difficulty the next time it gives you the workout. I had a lot of fun creating and using the program. I am currently learning how to create iOS apps, so I can put this on my phone and easily distribute it to others.
Brake Sights
Brake Sights - 2016
When you are driving on the highway and see the brake lights of the car in front of you, initially, you have no idea if they are just softly tapping or slamming on the brakes. I had the idea to create a new kind of brake light and brought it to life with the help of four other students. BrakeSights is a brake light composed of LEDs arranged in a circle. It is fitted with an accelerometer to measure exactly how fast a car is slowing down. The greater the deceleration, the more LEDs light up. We completed this in a projects class and were privileged to win the coveted "Most Likely to Appear on Shark Tank" award. We took it a step further and entered the Cozad startup contest here on campus but had to drop out due to finding out that our BrakeSights were banned in the country for being deemed "too distracting."
Snoozer
Snoozer - 2017
We've all had those mornings where you just can't get out of bed. You hit the snooze button 10+ times, and you know you will be late for your meeting, class, job, etc. but you just can't make yourself get up. Two of my classmates and I wanted to try to fix this issue with a fun approach. Our goal was to try to create an alarm clock that runs around the room when the alarm goes off, so you have to get out of bed to turn it off. We built this for an electronics class and were able to make our machine run around the room and avoid running into objects using an Arduino, ultrasonic sensors, and a car chassis kit. We could have added the alarm clock and speaker if we had more time.