UCSD COSMOS Cluster 1 - 2019

Below you will find the presentations, Google slides, poster board and demo of Cluster 1's final projects.  The students did an outstanding job and we are extremely proud of all the groups!!  It was a difficult challenge in selecting a "top" project.  Congratulations to Lindsey, Clarice, Wendy and Nithya as this year's Cluster 1 Gordon Leadership Award winners and to Annie as the Joe Watson Award winner! Andre and Andy "Self Navigating Semi-Autonomous Vehicle with Obstacle Detecting and Collision Prevention Systems" Cluster Award |  Presentation Slides | Poster Board | Demo Angela and Sunny "Autonomous Catapulting Machine with Bluetooth Music" Presentation Slides | Poster Board | Demo Lindsey and Clarice "BinBot: Increasing Environmental Awareness and Recycling Habits Through a Closed Automated Disposal System" Presentation Slides | Poster Board | Demo Annie and Katherine " Dynamic Prog...

Students have spent the week working on their final projects.  As you can imagine it's an intense time for students to get their proposed project working and adding features to it.  Our students get to see the life cycle of a project - from idea to prototype.  Most of the time students are concentrating hard and focusing on getting the task at hand completed in the limited amount of time they have.  But we have our moments of laughter, "blowing steam" and camaraderie.  Below are some examples. Being in Cluster 1 is like being in High School Musical  Final lunch at 64 Degrees dining hall.  Demo test went well... in the ladies room in case the project made a mess.  Cluster 1 motto.  Homemade cupcakes from scratch.

On Wednesday, Curt wrote the above on the board.  We learned all of the above are true.  To find out how and why, check out the explanation below

On Thursday, we presented our Arduino musical instrument projects.  We designed our own musical instruments using components like, LEDs, light sensors, buttons and distance sensors.  It was a big learning experience for us to put together the hardware and software! The presentation videos, slides and demos are listed below.  Congratulations to the Faculty Choice Award winners: Clarice and Zarco for "Bop It!"!  Congratulations to the People's Choice award winners: Christine and Kevin D. for "Bunny Ears"! Clarice and Zarco - "Bop It!" Presentation | Demo Angela and Marian - "Accidental Theremin" Presentation | Demo Kevin G. and Sunny - "Rainbow Keyboard" Presentation | Demo Ari and Wendy - "Photocell Guitar" Presentation | Demo Andre and Annie - "Electronic Pseudo-Guitar" Presentation | Demo Katherine and Andy - "The Buzzing R2-D2" Presentation | Demo ...

On Thursday, we presented our image processing projects.  We had to do image manipulation.  We programmed in Python to do our "photoshopping".  The Faculty Choice award went to Sunny and Andre's "Paris Remastered".  The People's Choice award went to Wendy and Annie's "Mosaic Function". Below are our videos of the presentation we did in lab to our cluster, a link to our presentation and the images (before and after). Ari and Lindsey Flying Baby Presentation Slides Before Images After Images Sunny and Andre Paris Remastered - Faculty Choice Award Presentation Slides Before Images After Images Clarice and Christine Feathery Kiwi & Tuff Boba Presentation Slides Before Images After Images Nithya and Kevin D. Flowers, Man City and The Taj Mahal Presentation Slides Before Images After Images Michael and Andy Our Earth Presentation Slides Befor...