Week 4 - Design Sketches

 Below are some of the sketches we drew in class of possible design ideas.

Week 3 - Our Project

Chosen Design: Mechanical storage system for the bathroom\

Our Project:

Create a storage system for people in residential buildings who are restricted to small amounts of space. We would like to create a space efficient electronic storage system where we are able to utilize the given space. We will achieve this using 2 natural user interfaces (user recognition and hand gesture control). 

Challenges:

• Facial recognition
• Creating the mechanical system needed for the project
• Inputting sensor data into our code
• Group collaboration

Individual Tasks Completed this week:

• Set up and starting posting research onto Wiki
• Sorted out our design idea and have chosen to go with the Mechanical Storage System
• Started research into different types of Mechanical Storage Systems

Week 2 - Our Team

Team Members:

• Olivia Cheung
• Ben Filler
• Yuki Igarashi
• Tharida Rattanajaturon
• Sre Janani Gnanamurthy

Established Roles:

Yuki Igarashi – Team Leader/ Documenter

Responsibilities:

• Managing and leading the team throughout the project
• Monitoring project progress and measuring team’s progress to keep on track
• Update our progress on Wiki and keep it up to date

Tharida Rattanajaturon – Secretary/ Programmer

Responsibilities:

• Ensures there are clear communication paths within the team and the organisation throughout the project
• Development and operation of technical programming for the project
• Update personal progress and research onto wiki

Olivia Cheung – 3D Modeller/ Crysis Environment

Responsibilities:

• Create and refine all 3D models needed for the project
• Prototype creation
• Update personal progress and research onto wiki

Ben Filler – Documenter/ Multimedia Designer

Responsibilities:

• Documentation and analysis of current and future work done in the project
• Graphic design and video editing
• Update personal progress and research onto wiki

Sre Janani Gnanamurthy – Programmer /Arduino

Responsibilities:

• Overall management and coordination of programming to prototyping team
• Development and operation of technical programming for the project
• Update personal progress and research onto wiki

Design Ideas:

·         Automated Garbage Disposal System

o   Purpose

§  Easier way to dispose garbage for a disabled person

o   Sensors

§  Tracking system for the garbage bin

§  Gesture control for separating disposal (recycle/non-recycling)

·         Automated Alarm and Locking System

o   Purpose

§  To lock the house without going through every room and be able to lock the house with a push of a button

o   Sensors

§  Hand gesture control for shutting and locking all doors and windows

§  Facial recognition for who unlocking the house for security purposes

·         Automatic Bed Heater/Cooler

o   Purpose

§  To make the bed a comfortable temperate for the user

o   Sensors

§  Health tracking to check user’s body temperature

§  Thermo sensor to collect room temperature

·         Mechanical Storage System

o   Purpose

§  To be able to store boxes in a high shelf to save space

o   Sensors

§  Hand gesture control for moving boxes

§  User recognition for identifying which box is there’s on the shelf

·         Bathroom Pressure Mat for Elderly People

o   Purpose

§  As the bathroom is the most dangerous room in the house for an elderly person, a call will go out if the user has fallen over and activates the pressure sensors

o   Sensors

§  Pressure sensors in the mats to activate alarm if more than a certain percentage is active

§  User recognition as to who is in the bathroom and any medical information associated to them

Chosen Design: Mechanical storage system for the bathroom

Week 1 - Targeted CV

This week's task was to create a targeted CV for ARCH 1392 to decide which of three projects we will be allocated to. As I am proficient in Revit my first preference would be SituationENGINE. Livable Bathrooms would also be a very interesting project as I am interested in Kinetic Architecture. Below I have attached .jpg images of my CV and there is also a link to a pdf version as well. 

PDF version