Cluster 1 Video

A video snapshot of our four weeks at COSMOS's Cluster 1 "Computers in Everyday Life".

Please note:  Some pictures were changed after it's original viewing on Closing Day.

Four weeks... almost a 1000 photos

It was fun-filled, intense, code-filled four weeks at COSMOS.  Lots of memories will remain.  Below are a few photos of the students, faculty, TAs, guest speakers, Discovery Lectures and field trips to Qualcomm, SIO, Birch Aquarium, Calit2 and San Diego Supercomputer Center.

Our lab

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Testing our newly acquired hexadecimal conversion skills.

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View the Cluster 1 skit for COSMOlympics!

COSMOlympics cluster photo!

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Presenting their AppInventor project

On a tour at Calit2's Star Cave

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Testing out their MazeBot

On our tour of Qualcomm

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Testing their final project

Our last class day - getting pumped to present to Cluster 2

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Final Project Presentations

Below are the outstanding final projects that Cluster 1 presented on during the Research Expo on closing day - August 4, 2012.

Sheena-Grace Cardoza and Caroll Le – Graphical Synthesis Through Pattern Extraction

Poster board - Demo

Allen Nguyen and Yvette Ramirez – Automotive Artificial Intelligence: Decoding Traffic Signals

Poster board - Demo

David Kim and Nicholas Poon – Vicinity Scanner: Mapping an Environment Using Infrared Imaging

Poster board - Demo

Christian Feliciano and Bradley Dorsey – Autonomous Driving: Interpreting Directional Clues from the Environment

Poster board - Demo

Amy Garcia and Gustavo Camacho – Emotion Sensing in Music: A Click-free Music Selection Android App

Poster board - Demo

Cesar Aleman and Vineeth Somanchi – Robotic Vision: Numerical and Color Perception

Poster board - Demo

Nathaniel Shak and Dennis Le – The Application of Machine Intelligence in the Search and Detection of Explosive Devices via Visual Cues

Poster board - Demo

Benjamin Li and Rayyan Aburajab – Robotic Pursuit Using Multi-Variable Monitoring

Poster board - Demo

Arianna Olson and Casey Takahashi  -- Independent Categorization and Relocation of Objects - The Utilization of Machine Vision

Poster board - Demo

Robert Mao and Adyota Gupta – The Observation and Management of Energy Efficiency Through Solar Tracking Devices and Binary Communication Protocols

Poster board - Demo

Cluster 1 has got talent!

Some of our Cluster 1 students performed in the COSMOS Talent Show on Friday.  Below are their performances!

Christian sings!

Ari and friend sing!

Sheena plays the uke and sings!

David and his suite sing and dance!

Arduino Adventure

Students worked with Arduinos for the first time this past week.  Very few had any experience with building circuits.  They got LEDs to blink and fade over a few seconds.  They also used a force sensor to cause the LED to light and actuator to work.  Below are a few pictures of their Arduino adventures.

Force sensor (far left with the circle), green LED and actuator (held between the fingers) connected to an Arduino (green board on the right).

It's fun and exciting connecting the actuator to the Arduino.

Until the wire breaks!  Not to worry, nothing serious.  They got  it to  work!

AppInventor Presentations

During the first week, our cluster worked with AppInventor.  Students worked in pairs to write Android apps.  The final AppInventor project was to create their own original app.  Many wrote games.

During this first week, our cluster learned AppInventor.  None of the students had worked on it before.  It is a scripting language with a graphical interface which allowed them to put together a simple app in a matter of hours.  AppInventor allows them to develop applications for Android based devices, like cell phones.  Their first applications for the Android phone include: PaintPot (drawing and painting application), A Mole Mash game (similar to Whack-a-Mole), and Quiz Me (allowing users to type in their answers and check if it is correct).  Next they worked on their own unique app.  They were paired up in teams and made a group app which was presented on the following Monday to the cluster and COSMOS Open House guests.  You can find the presentations as well as the video demos at our Google docs folder for Applnventor.  Some of the apps created include: “Shoot the Meme”, “Space Break”, and “aMAZEing” game.  Two awards were given out: “Faculty Standout” and “The People’s Choice”.  The latter was picked by the cluster students and awarded to Cesar and Vineeth for their “Piano” app.  The “Faculty Standout” Award winner was Ari and Bradley for their “Snake” game.  All four received UCSD t-shirts.

Scribbler Art Show

Yesterday we presented our Scribbler robot's art!  In teams of two, we programmed our Scribblers to draw something.  We got to decide what to draw.  Ultimately we learned that programming robots are very literal and that lots and lots of testing is needed to ensure that its programming works as intended.  Below are our presentations!

Nicholas and Ben - "Aperture Science"

Ari and Bradley - "Pac-Man"

Casey and Christian - "Christmas Tree"

Nathaniel and Vineeth - "Peace and Love"

Sheena and Cesar - "MiTunes"

Rayyan and Dennis - "Snowman"

Yvette and David - "Failure to Launch" 

Amy and Gustavo - "Perfect Houses"