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EDU/PROJECTS/LM-SCI-FI/ SEPTEMBER 2010

The S.C.I.F.I. Weekly

Ambitious Fresh
Start and Whys
#
JAMES DOUGHTY
Hardware Designer and Assembly

Although our Quarter

presentation of our proposed ideas
for this project were met with
great enthusiasm by the faculty,
the Projectograph raised doubts
about a) the safety of such a device
and b) the robustness of the
chosen hardware against much
force as it spins at 30 revolutions
per second. Although safety was
never an issue, our confidence in
the hardware not tearing itself Concept Art of the Ocular Prosthetoscope, by James Doughty
goggles we'd planned to use for
apart was shattered with some
the Ocular Prosthetoscope. It
calculations, and strong advice from Scott that we should
occurred to us that not one but TWO of our deliverables
consider another approach.
were riding on the success of the Projectograph. We also
realized we were relying heavily on AR goggle we may or
We then decided that we might be able to create a
may not be able to acquire. That's when we decided a
"virtual" volumetric display - a Projectographless
fresh round of brainstorming was needed, and here are
Projectograph, if you will - using the same Vuzix AR
the results:

Brand-new Device Concepts

JAMES DOUGHTY ECG FIELD GLOVE
Hardware Designer and Assembly (WORKING TITLE)
A glove with built in ECG
LASER WEENIE (electrocardiography) capabilities. 
(WORKING TITLE) The wearer simply touches the patient
A shoulder-mounted, hands-free with ECG enabled fingers and
location-finding device that projects patient's heart rate is displayed via
an arrow shaped laser mark onto the Droid mounted on the wearer's wrist.
ground in front of the wearer. The
arrow will point to a pre-selected way- PERSONAL WEATHER STATION
point, and will automatically adjust (WORKING TITLE)
itself based on the wearer 's own A device that reads atmospheric
directional heading. conditions and communicates them to
the wearer via Droid.

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Imaginative medic for developing scenarios

Brand-new Device Concepts.................1 ~ 2

This week inside... Weekly Check List......................................2
The S.C.I.F.I. Weekly Purely Excited!.............................................3
Centripetal Force on Monitor....................3
Ambitious Fresh Starts and Why...........1
The S.C.I.F.I. Team Photo..........................3

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Upcoming Schedule

September 25~26, 2010

Field Trip to Maker Faire New York
September 27, 2010
Weekly Advisor Meeting
October 1, 2010
Weekly Client Meeting
October 28, 2010
TEA/ETC Technology Mixer
November 22, 2010
Soft Opening
November 24~26, 2010
Thanksgiving
November 30, 2010
Lockheed Martin Day
December 6, 8, 10, 2010
Final Presentation
The S.C.I.F.I.
Project Client
(Lockheed Martin)
James F. Burke Jr.
Brad A. Michael
Project Advisors
Shirley Saldamarco
Scott Stevens
Staff Writers
Carlos Sokion Shin
James Doughty
Michael Hill
Hanika Karkhanis
Programming Advisor
John Conomikes
Page Design
Carlos Sokion Shin
The S.C.I.F.I. Weekly
MICHAEL HILL FIELD BIOFEEDBACK
Programmer / Hardware De- PLATFORM
signer (WORKING TITLE)
A wireless-capable
RFID READER phone that, when used in
(WORKING TITLE) combination with a
Us i n g a h a n d - h e l d wireless network, will be
RFID reader, a field medic able to be send
can scan a patient and biofeedback data a
bring up critical patient localized network that will
information.  This will then be relayed to other
allow him/her to quickly field operatives or a medic.  shared GPS locations,
treat or diagnose a patient With the proper sensors,
even if they have special the wearer will be able to
needs. send not only heart rate,
but possibly even EEG
data from a device
embedded in a helmet,
indicating both physical
and psychological states.
Laser Weenie ECG Field Glove
• Android Application / • Android Application /
Android Android
• Laser Pointer with an arrow • Resistors
cap • Capacitors
• Motor to rotate the laser • Power Source
pointer
• Wires
• Boarduino
RFID Reader Field Biofeedback
Platform
• Android Application / • Android Application /
Android Android
• RFID capsule • ECG monitor
• RFID reader • Networked Androids
Requirements for each device concepts, by Hanika Karkhanis
NETWORK RADAR
(WORKING TITLE)
A wireless-capable
phone that, when used in
combination with a
wireless network, will be
able to send the phone-
carrier’s GPS location to
other users on the
network.  All users on the
network would have
allowing them to be
m a r ke d o n a “ r a d a r ”
showing the location of
friendly units.
Personal Weather
Station
• Android Application /
Android
• Lilypad Arduino
• UBS weather board
Network Radar
• Android Application /
Android

W E E K LY C H E C K L I S T
This week Next week

Field Trip to Maker Faire New York

Pick deliverables for the project.
Quarter Walkarounds / Feedback
Elaborate the ideas.
Brainstorming new ideas
Develop user scenario.
Order Droid X.
Develop concept arts.
Name the devices.
Reschedule development phase.
Order all necessary hardware parts.

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Weekly Opinions
Purely Excited!
Feedbacks !om Quarter Walkarounds

The last Monday (September 20) was very exciting

day for the team S.C.I.F.I. Because the feedback
during the Quarter walkarounds were extremely
positive in many aspects including the amount of
conducted research, inspiration sources, presentation
slides and, of course, ideas themselves. They
A slide for the Quarter walkarounds on research
expressed their excitement on the prototype plans for
the Projectograph, 3D-to-Volumetric Software and
the Prosthetoscope. The slide can be seen at http://
bit.ly/cf8pz2. Carlos Sokion Shin

Team, Yo u c a n e s t i m a t e t h e

I w a n t to g e t a
Centripetal Force
little more concrete
about this afternoon's
d i s c u s s i o n . If y o u
on Monitor
want to play with the
numbers, here’s the basic physics:
• Force = mass x acceleration (mass in kg)
• Centripetal acceleration = W2 x R   Think of an amusement park ride that spins you.
(W = angular velocity in rad/s and R = radius in m)
• W = 2π x N (N = revolutions per second)
This gives you force in Newtons. (4.45 N = 1 lb)
So the force goes up with the square of the
rotational speed and linearly with radius.
The 50 inch width screen I used as an example has
a 25 in. radius to the outside edge.  There the outside
1 inch of glass/screen was experiencing 2750 lb of
centripetal force.
A 15 in. screen has a 7.5 in. radius that’s .3 of the 25
in radius of the 50 in. and the mass is about .67 of the
larger screen. So even for the 15 in. monitor the
outside 1 inch of glass/screen would experience 550 lb. 
overall centripetal force
knowing that it is linear
with radius.  The next
subsequent one inch
experiences a 13% decrease
in force and so on.  That
means the central core of the screen will see about
2000 lb of centripetal force. The fact that there
would be an outside steel brace doesn't matter. 
 
You're not going to fall out because your safely held
in.  But you sure do still feel the centripetal force.  
These are approximations and they neglect the fact
that the force is spread out over the vertical distance
of the monitor.  So the stress is less.  Nonetheless,
the risk of the glass failing is very high even for the 15
in monitor.
Structural failure aside, I think the stress on the
electronic components and connections pretty much
guarantees an electrical failure.
Tuesday, September 21
Scott Stevens

The S.C.I.F.I. Team Photo

Each team at the ETC was highly encouraged
to have team photos for promotional
purposes. On Monday September 13, team
S.C.I.F.I. took team photos thanks to Stephen
Dewhurst, class of 2011.

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