Brainstorming and Ideation I started thinking about the ideas when I went to the AISOS lab to scan the dumpling (refer to the post for assignment #3), and thought it would be fun to do more food items for the final project! So most of my ideas are around food items. Food cube I saw…

Brainstorming and Ideation I started brainstorming by look up CNC router project ideas on Google image search, Pinterest, and instructables, and for some reasons this time all the ideas are pretty much culture influenced (Chinese and Japanese culture). And as always, there is one idea dedicated to cat theme. Traditional Chinese restaurant sign board (or maybe beer sign board) There is a Chinese…

Brainstorming and Ideation When I was brainstorming for the project ideas on how to make 3D things from 2D cuttings, I was mainly browsing laser cutting projects on websites (like instructables and ponoko) and looking for inspirations (which was really helpful for me to understand different things laser cutter is capable of). …

As a child, I spent a lot of time with my parents’ retired colleagues in our community who often helped take care of children like me when our working parents were occupied. Needless to say, not all children have such caring older adults when they grow up and many older…

Design Visualization for Twitter Trends Data — What is the best way to visualize popular twitter trends in different U.S. cities? With the raw data of popular Twitter topics across 60 cities across United State on February 22, 2015, designing an intuitive way to arrange and visualize the data so that users can explore and compare the data with respect to topics, locations, and time. Explore the Data Set

Improving Patient Care in the ICU — How can we design the digital version of plan of the day to make coordinated decision making more effective in the ICU? Plan of the day is a paper-based tool physicians created during the morning rounding everyday to track the patients’ care plans in the ICU. The paper based plan of the day tool becomes obsolete within hours of its creation. …

How to use p5.js to read from Arduino, and write to Arduino demonstrated with building an awareness communication system — Overview This tutorial will help you understand how to setup HTML/JavaScript pages (p5.js sketches) to communicate with microcontroller (Arduino). We will focus specifically on how to setup Arduino for sending information to browser-based app, how to setup p5.js so browser-based application can read serial input (sent by Arduino), and how to…

Designed an alarm clock using light control to wake people. Prototyped with Arduino. DESIGN My design goal for this project is to make an alarm clock that will use effective methods to wake people up. My initial design was a running alarm clock that could also control room light. After…

Designed and built the 3d model for a cat bookmark with 123Design. DESIGN For this assignment, I decided to model a bookmark. I first did some Google search on different types of bookmarks and studied the structure of them. I decided to go with the clip structure for bookmark, and…