Intro to Making Smart Devices
Introduction to Making Smart Devices
Introduction to Making Smart Devices
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What are smart devices?
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What is “making”?
Making Smart Devices
“Making and the maker movement is the physical manifestation of all your academic learning - how you apply your education to real-world problems
–Dr. Dorothy Jones-Davis
- Interacting with “smart” devices in the environment
- Involves programming, electronics, 3d printing, wearables, networking, interaction design
What is IoT (Internet of Things)?
- Internet
- connect to the internet to send and receive data
- Things
- “smart” devices that are programmed interact with environment
Why learn this?
- Jobs (2020 data)
- 4.5 million Internet of Things (IoT) developers
- 57% annual growth rate
- 26 billion Internet nodes (excl. phones, tablets, and computers)
- 30 fold increase from 2009
- 4.5 million Internet of Things (IoT) developers
- 2025: projected 42 billion IoT devices globally
- Cross-discipline
- CS, EE, data analytics, product design, entrepreneurship, making
Why learn this?
- Industry opportunities
- Companies and organizations are using open source tools to build devices (even NASA has used Arduino)
- Companies are looking for people who know these technologies
Why learn this?
- Hardware entrepreneurship
- Cost of manufacturing is within reach of small amount of funding
- Entrepreneurs are partnering with places like Sparkfun to build out their ideas
- Tools and open-source platforms mean you can build a prototype without an engineering degree
Why learn this?
Empowering and fun
- “We are on the verge of machines that can think, and we are carrying magic wands in our pocket but most people see them as read-only” – Jeff Branson, educator and engineer
Examples: Gadgets
- Mi.Mu / Imogen Heap (https://youtu.be/3QtklTXbKUQ?t=660)
- Form - AR swim googles
Examples: Education
- Lumi - teach piano
- Cubetto - learn programming without a screen
Examples: Health
- UFO - beauty mask
- Jolt - concussion sensor for athletes
Examples: Social Good
- Grillo - early earthquake warnings in rural Mexico and Chile
- ReWalk - exoskeleton to help people with spinal cord injuries
Hardware
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Communication
- WiFi and Cellular
- Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE)
- Ex: Communication between smart watch and phone; wireless headphones
- Range: ~1200+ ft
- Near-Field Communication (NFC)
- Ex: Contact-less payment like Apple Pay
- Range: 4 inches
Our focus in this class
- building electronic prototype
- creating the software code
- communicating with / controlling device via internet
Past Student Work - Competition
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