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Blog 1 - Daniel Lawton ("Hello World") Bio: My name is Daniel Lawton,  I’m from Tramore in County Waterford. Currently studying my final year of my Computer Science degree, with the Internet of Things as an elective. Some things I enjoy outside of College, include going to the gym, I have been interested in lifting weights since I was a teenager, my love for the gym stemmed from needing to bulk up for rugby, but I ended up enjoying the gym far more and quit rugby for the gym all together. I also have an interest in running, with it being one of my main hobbies at the moment. Other hobbies include reading, with my favourite genre being history. If I could go back to any point in history it would be to the Aztecs the year before  the Spanish explorer’s landed to give the locals a heads up.  Once done college, I want to do more travelling, places I want to go to include Germany, Italy and Mexico and then down into South America. Project Ideas Dug the Dog:  Using Unitree...

 Blog 1 - Brendan Mayer About me: My name is Brendan, I am a 4th Computer Science / Game Development student in SETU. I was born in Johannesburg, South Africa and came to Ireland in 2015 which makes this year my 10th year in Ireland. Although many parts of South Africa have a large variety of spoken languages, I grew up in a predominantly English-speaking area, but I also learned Afrikaans in school. However, due to a lack of practice, I've forgotten much of the language but can still read and understand most of it.  My main hobbies include surfing, rock climbing, creating music as well as playing and creating games. I've always had a passion for creating things which is why I chose this course as it allowed me to study Game Development but also learn many other aspects of computing. This is also the same reason I chose IOT as my elective module. Ideas:   Weather Station:  a device that is used to measure temperature, humidity, or air pressure and display the data. G...

 Blog 1 - Mark Hogan January 27, 2025 About Me :  Hi I'm a 4th-year Computer Science and Games Development student with a lifelong passion for gaming and technology. From a young age, I always loved playing video games until later in life I found out you can actually do it as a job. Even though my love for video games runs deep, this course has opened my eyes to much more. I like to think I'm a "master of all trades", constantly bettering myself.  I have a very curious mind, I always needed to know how things work even if that meant taking them apart (and not being able to put it back together), this is part of the reason I chose IOT as I hope to learn the "putting it back together" part. Ideas:  Develop our own remote for the robotic dog with customizable buttons and display. Develop a mobile Wi-Fi signal enhancer and relay station for the robotic dog. Have the dog have its own portable Wi-Fi hotspot that moves to find the best internet signal nearby and th...

About Me  I was born in Ukraine. I moved to Ireland with my parents in September 2008. I'm mostly fluent in Russian and can understand about 70% of Ukrainian in a conversation (but not speak it). My favorite sports are skiing and kyaking (sea / whitewater). I love drawing, painting, graphic design and 3D modelling. For the longest time ever, I thought that I would pursue a career in animation or as a VFX artist for the film industry. My passion for visual design continued into this course and has turned into an obsession for user interfaces and user experience in the computing world.         Ideas 💡 Design and fabricate a system of mountable, modular hardware which sits on top of the robot dog. This would significantly simplify the process for secondary (or even primary) school pupils to create microbit-based add-ons for the Unitree Go2 Robot Dog. For the scouts I would love to look into creating microbit-enabled, portable, waterproof and compact devices f...

Iteration #2 - Micro: Bit Research & HRV Jack Duggan | 20094010 | IOT Apps For the second iteration sprint of the module, I got hands-on with the Micro:bit. I had previously used these devices way back in secondary school for Leaving Certificate Computer Science, so the basics came back to me fairly quickly. We were sent home to 'research' the Micro:bit, and become familiar with it's basic functionality, before class on Friday the 2nd of February. In the class, I worked alone (as we had an odd number of students present) with a Micro:bit V2, an expansion board for the Microbit, and a heart rate sensor. Above is the physical setup Below is the device output screen with my finger on the sensor. The top graph shows my pulse as analogue input as identified by the sensor. Some mathematics is performed (as shown under the below graph) that converts these pulse values to HRV (delta_t). This HRV value is then displayed on the 'boxier looking' graph underneath. The way t...

 Lock-In Final Iteration Dominik Martynski 20094523  Before the lock-in itself, as a team we brainstormed the specifics of said lock-in, so that everyone knew what team they were on, what functionality to work on and a general breakdown of all the features we hoped to get working during it.    We worked on three pieces of hardware, the wearable (what you put on your finger), a wave machine (the main visualizer for your heartbeat) and a teddy bear whose belly moves up and down imitating a breathing motion using the HRV. One of the main ideas we came up with for the project was that of a wave machine that would visualise the HRV using a bottle being lifted up and down using a motor linked to the HRV values, mostly based off of the Hughes Wave Motion machine we were shown in class as inspiration. The rocking and intensity of the waves was determined by the HRV, but instead of a massive tank of liquid we opted for a more realistic water bottle filled with food colouring ...

Iteration 5.1 | Brainstorms, Biofeedback 🧠🌊 Jack Duggan

Iteration 5.2 | The Lock-In 🔒 Jack Duggan | 20094010 | 10/05/2024 The "lock-in" was something initially devised months ago, an idea that involved taking a couple of days towards the end of the semester to commit fully to this module. As the semester began to wind up in terms of general workload, it became increasingly apparent that this "lock-in" would be necessary. In week 10/11 when we finally set it in stone, it was a great relief off all of all shoulders, knowing it was one less module to stress about, especially with already rampant workload due in week 12/13. With the lock-in pencilled in for the second week of May, it allowed myself and the others to put increased focus on other modules, and helped reduce the stresses we faced at this time. Eventually, the lock-in week did come around, and I and the others arrived in the room on Tuesday 7th May at 10am sharp. We had split into two teams, one team consisting of Emma, Conor and Eric that would look at adding H...

    Big Heart SETU  The Final Iteration 🧠🔒

 Iteration 4 of HRV project   Above is a diagram of the current infrastructure of the microbit HRV project. A DFRobot Cloud Board is used in tandem with the main microbit to serve as the main master of the system. The Cloud Board gives the microbit extra functionality, letting it connect to the internet, enable MQTT IFTTT etc. Currently only a v1 board is being used for the project as we believe the MQTT functionality present in a v1 was removed in any v2 board. A mobile phone is used as a hotspot for connecting the cloud board to the internet. During the development phase we found out that an Android hotspot works best while windows laptop hotspots and iphone hotspots work far too inconsistently to be used properly. The project contains two piece of microbit code, one for the master cloud board and another for every microbit connecting to it sending information. The slaves communicate with the master using a radio group, thus not requiring any internet, while the master takes...

  Lock In Teddy Bear team Before diving into the actual lock project, we began by distributing the workload to clearly define who would be responsible for each aspect of the project. Given our objective to implement two distinct ideas using Heart Rate Variability (HRV), we devised a plan that included both a teddy bear and a wave machine, each designed to simulate HRV in unique ways. The first idea involved creating a teddy bear that could mimic HRV. This project aimed to provide a comforting and interactive experience, particularly for children and mother, by having the teddy bear's movements or vibrations align with a person’s heart rate variability. This approach required careful consideration of the mechanisms and sensors needed to accurately capture and reflect HRV in a tangible and soothing manner. Luckily we found a teddy bear that have display some of the mechanics that we reguired such as motor that simulate breathing -  Fisher-Price Soothe 'n' Snuggle Otter | Smyt...

Source: Canva AI   7/05/24 HRV Lock in Day 1 As discussed in the Brainstorming blog there had been a list of work that needed to be completed by my group, this includes:                     1. Creating a HRV wearable (Myself and Hasan)                     2. Building a wave machine (Everyone)                     3. Wearable to/from Tweet, spreadsheet using IFTTT (Jack)                     4. Calculate phase difference for servo output. (Everyone) The class had been split into two groups one to design a the wave machine and the other to design a teddy bear that would "breath" according to the users HRV. To begin the lock in the Pulse sensors for the HRV measurements needed a way to stay in the same position so that a user was able to give accurate...