The Owl

The project for module 2, Smart Environments, addresses the issue of indoor air quality in crowded and poorly ventilated spaces. High CO2 levels can have harmful effects on health and the current CO2 meters are not as effective in changing human behavoir as hoped. So in this project we redesigned the CO2 meters currently in classrooms. It was a challenging project that gave me the opportunity to do a lot of different things:

Programming & Physical Computing

For my final PPC project I created an interactive interface that combines Processing and Arduino IDE. The interface has four animated buttons: rain, stars, fire, and health. Each button corresponds to an animation in Processing and on the LED matrix, accompanied by sound matching the theme. The interface supports three languages: Dutch, English, and Russian, making it accessible to a wider audience. The health button shows current environmental data on a 16x16 LED matrix. It indicates CO2 levels, temperature, humidity, and air quality index. Users can monitor and analyze environmental parameters using a web server.

Video Editing

For my Professional Development Module 2 project, I improved my video editing skills by collaborating on a podcast. This challenged me to learn quickly in a group environment. I experimented with different video editing software to produce a polished seventeen minute video from about an hour of raw footage.

Blender