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Discovery Lab is Looking for New Talented Students
Applications for the 2014 Discovery Lab Student members will be accepted until Sunday, February 9th 2014.
To apply complete the application form, and email your resume and application to Discovery Lab (discoverylab@cis.fiu.edu) or bring them directly to the lab (ECS-232).
We encourage you to visit our GC Pit Event ( Feb 3rd, 10AM – 2PM at GC Pit) and submit it at the event desk.
Application : MembershipApplicantInformation.pdf
Areas of Interest
A. Robotics Project
– TeleBot Project ( Project Demo Video : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nvQNnRpmalY ) –
1) Robot Design & Manufacturing
2) Circuit Design & Embedded Programming
3) Robot Motion Controlling
4) Robot Vision Controlling
5) Human-Robot-Interface Design & Programming
– UAV Project –
1) UAV Design & Programming
B. NASA FUNSAT Team
1) Mathematical physics
2) Physic Simulation Programming
C. Smart Home Project
1) Home Automation System Development
2) Sensor Network
D. Event & Public Relation
1) Web and Event Management
2) Media Relations
3) Public Relations
The Department of Computer Science hosted an event to honor the work of its staff and student members. One of the awards was for the Discovery Lab, for our work and the impact it has done for the community. The award included the names of the current members and was a great way to show appreciation for the long night and countless hours the Discovery Lab team has dedicated to the projects we currently hold. Dr. Iyengar didn’t only do the honors, but also presented his ideas for the department for the next years as well as talked about some of the projects that are currently active and the members that made it possible. The event was accompanied of a nice dinner and an amazing atmosphere where professors and students were able to share a nice meal and a great time together. We are looking forward to this coming year, and may it be a year of work, success and prosperity.
On Saturday November 16, the Discovery Lab took some of our projects to the MakerFaire Miami and gave a demonstration of their abilities. The event was a great opportunity to see the reaction of the people when seeing our Projects. We got a lot of awe from the crowd when seeing the big Telebot and the accuracy of its movements and much inspiration from the possibilities of the technology we have been implementing on it. The Telebot had never been tested outside of the lab before, and this test showed us some of the flaws that we hadn’t noticed before, allowing us to work on fixing them. At times when the Telebot (or me, the driver) needed a break, we presented the Smart Mannequin to the crowd. The Smart Mannequin also got the attention of many, but the most attention was paid by the kids, who loved to control it and did so for hours on end. The Smart Mannequin also grabbed the attention of many people on the design industry since it allows for the testing and demonstration of clothing while in movement. Throughout the event, we also demonstrated the abilities of the Emergency Response Bot, and the visitors were able to see it driving around and shooting at people (no actual projectiles, just a simulation). At one point we had technical difficulties with the ER Bot, but even while static, it still attracted much attention from the crowd for the possibilities of its use and its looks. The visit to the MakerFaire was a great success for the Discovery Lab and allowed us to understand what people like and don’t of the projects we presented, as well as its possible technical problems which we can now fix. We hope to be able to do attend the next MakerFaire.
Links:
Miami Herald :http://www.miamiherald.com/
If you were at Miami Beach in Ocean Drive and the 12th Street yesterday November 17 during the afternoon, you probably saw us in black shirts setting up and demonstrating the Telebot there. This visit was part of a request by the Discovery Channel when they were getting footage of our main project, the Telebot. That day the Discovery Channel came with its crew to record footage of the project. They interviewed Dr Iyengard, Dr Kim, and Dr Prabakar for several hours and asked us to demonstrate the capabilities of the Telebot for the camera. Some of the demonstrations we gave them included traffic control in one of the inner street of FIU main campus and a bit of the reaction of the public to its capabilities (the Miami Beach visit). They were very please with the results even thought a few technical difficulties prevented us from demonstrating the Telebot further. These difficulties arouse from the fact that it was our first test outside on the streets with full mobility and that the crew had a limited amount of time available, hence we were unable to quickly amend the problems. Even so, the shooting was a great success and we are hoping that our edited footage will be aired soon on national TV. We are very eager to hear from them again.
