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Spring 2015 issue
May 1, 2015
This article appeared in Berkeley Engineer magazine, Spring 2015
Clarity: A wearable that senses and communicates air pollution data to a user's smartphone. Photos by Noah Berger.
Clarity: A wearable that senses and communicates air pollution data to a user’s smartphone. Photos by Noah Berger.
Toastboard: This device reimagines the traditional circuit design and testing tool known as the breadboard.
Toastboard: This device reimagines the traditional circuit design and testing tool known as the breadboard.
Knox diagnostics: The company is developing a cheaper and more portable spirometer, which is used for monitoring patients with asthma and other respiratory conditions.
Knox diagnostics: The company is developing a cheaper and more portable spirometer, which is used for monitoring patients with asthma and other respiratory conditions.
Dash robotics: Small robot kits based on biomimetics. The most popular design, Dash, is modeled after a cockroach, but made of flexible plastic.
Dash robotics: Small robot kits based on biomimetics. The most popular design, Dash, is modeled after a cockroach, but made of flexible plastic.
Smart Bowl: A sensor-equipped bowl keeps track of keys, wallets and other essentials and will alert users if they walk out the door without something important.
Smart Bowl: A sensor-equipped bowl keeps track of keys, wallets and other essentials and will alert users if they walk out the door without something important.
CellScope: An attachment that turns the stock optics on a smartphone into a microscope that can used for field diagnostics. The tool is especially useful in developing world situations.
CellScope: An attachment that turns the stock optics on a smartphone into a microscope that can used for field diagnostics. The tool is especially useful in developing world situations.
NASA tensegrity robots: These robots, designed in collaboration with NASA engineers, are inspiring new ways of thinking about the form and function of automated devices.
NASA tensegrity robots: These robots, designed in collaboration with NASA engineers, are inspiring new ways of thinking about the form and function of automated devices.
A smartphone modification that allows deaf users to participate in conference calls by transcribing speech in real time.
A smartphone modification that allows deaf users to participate in conference calls by transcribing speech in real time.
Vires Aeronautics: The company is developing a new technology that improves the aerodynamics of flight.
Vires Aeronautics: The company is developing a new technology that improves the aerodynamics of flight.
Smart scooters: A new course called CE 186: Design of Cyber-Physical Systems uses scooters as a way to study electric vehicles and the energy grid.
Smart scooters: A new course called CE 186: Design of Cyber-Physical Systems uses scooters as a way to study electric vehicles and the energy grid.
Clarity: A wearable that senses and communicates air pollution data to a user's smartphone. Photos by Noah Berger.
Toastboard: This device reimagines the traditional circuit design and testing tool known as the breadboard.
Knox diagnostics: The company is developing a cheaper and more portable spirometer, which is used for monitoring patients with asthma and other respiratory conditions.
Dash robotics: Small robot kits based on biomimetics. The most popular design, Dash, is modeled after a cockroach, but made of flexible plastic.
Smart Bowl: A sensor-equipped bowl keeps track of keys, wallets and other essentials and will alert users if they walk out the door without something important.
CellScope: An attachment that turns the stock optics on a smartphone into a microscope that can used for field diagnostics. The tool is especially useful in developing world situations.
NASA tensegrity robots: These robots, designed in collaboration with NASA engineers, are inspiring new ways of thinking about the form and function of automated devices.
A smartphone modification that allows deaf users to participate in conference calls by transcribing speech in real time.
Vires Aeronautics: The company is developing a new technology that improves the aerodynamics of flight.
Smart scooters: A new course called CE 186: Design of Cyber-Physical Systems uses scooters as a way to study electric vehicles and the energy grid.

Vires Aero wingVires Aero

Design team: Harshil Goel / Zachary Hargreaves / Jordan Greene

SpirometerKNOX Diagnostics

Design team: Charvi Shetty / Huyson Lam / Inderjit Jutla

Clarity air-quality monitorClarity

Design team: David Lu / Deepak Talwar / Hannah Hagen / Baljot Singh

Data-collecting smart scooterSmart scooter

Design course: CE 186: Design of Cyber-Physical Systems

ToastBoard circuit testerToastBoard

Design team: Filip Maksimovic / Julie Newcomb / Daniel Drew / Dominic Cincione

Transcense softwareTranscense

Design team: Thibault Duchemin / Pieter Doevendans

DASH robot kitDash Robotics

Design team: Paul Birkmeyer / Andrew Gillies / Nick Kohut

Tensegrity robotNASA Tensegrity robots

Design team leaders: Lee-Huang Chen / Kyunam Kim

Topics: Design, Devices & inventions