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Boise State University, VIP 400 Vertically Integrated Projects Section 007 Make It Spring 2021
The issue of an easy to use, easy to produce, rugged and weatherproof prosthetic is becoming a reality. With various 3D printing media and styles a wide variety of solutions can be brought to bear on this problem.
PROBLEM:
Few planets and satellites in our solar system can have the right conditions for life to develop (Mars, Europa and Enceladus). The space missions to explore these worlds are very expensive and we've to develop cheaper technological alternatives with satisfactory results.
SOLUTION:
To find possible traces of life in our solar system, we're going to develop sensors,
PROBLEM:
It is estimated that around 50% of electronic and electric waste is dumped in offices, homes, public entities or warehouses, more than 40% is buried or discarded in garbage dumps and landfills and about 10% enters informal or formal waste management schemes. This represents a waste of resources that could be recovered such as gold, copper, aluminum,
Micro cogeneration of heat and electricity in a house is the most cost-effective method of using natural gas to generate energy at the domestic level. Instead of burning fuel to merely heat space or water, some of the energy is converted to electricity in addition to heat. This electricity can be used within the home.
PROBLEM:
We can do somethings to mitigate and contain the spread of infectious diseases. The first thing is always to understand what they'ree, how they're transmitted and how they affect ourselves. A clear example is the SARS-COV2 coronavirus.
To avoid this issue, I have proposed the development and use of this application: "Health Monitoring in Home with IoT".
This project is about building a new kind of safety shoes for electrical operators in power grids or any other sites where there is high risk of electrocution while handling electrical equipment that can kill or surely cause high health damage to the operators like electrical engineers, equipment and infrastructure inspectors, maintenance provider personnel and others employees.
PROBLEM:
In underground transport, accidents and terrorist acts can happen at any time, and these problems worry users because the solutions for their prevention and mitigation are insufficient: checkpoints, video surveillance cameras, fire extinguishers, emergency levers, etc.
SOLUTION:
We're going to develop a network of sensors for the monitoring and control of the security of the underground transport system.
Sargassum is a natural, even essential, part of the Caribbean's ecosystems but these recent blooms are having a devastating impact on the region, both ecologically and economically. Many tourist areas and islands were inundated this year. It piles up on beaches, sometimes many feet thick covering large area of shore waters and begins to decay.
The coil cartridge vinyl pickups are very well made. In fact they are not a very complicated development, but they need amplifiers to get the translated signal from the coils. Well now it is intended to use vision to recognize the patterns of the grooves in the vinyl.
To clear streets of trains, buses and cars a simple walk-on-pod street transport system can carry pedestrians fast and safely like a scooter for long street distances.
The pod system works as follows: Pedestrians simply select their pod at the pod parking area for the direction they want to go.
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