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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.

    • 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