• Question: What was your biggest project

    Asked by TXY_UNICORN_MOLAGA to Ted, S. S., Laura, Kevin, Ellen, Andrea on 8 Mar 2019.
    • Photo: Kevin OBrien

      Kevin OBrien answered on 8 Mar 2019: last edited 8 Mar 2019 7:13 pm

      The biggest project I’ve been involved in was a neuro-muscular electric stimulator, which also had a pair of EMG channels, which could measure muscle activity.
      It was difficult preventing the noise from the high voltage (about 200 volts) generator, affecting the signal coming into the EMG inputs.
      It was really interesting, though.
      I’m hoping my next project will be even bigger.

    • Photo: Ted Burke

      Ted Burke answered on 9 Mar 2019:

      My biggest project was my PhD, which took about 4.5 years. It was all about using technology to let people with physical disabilities do creative art activities. I designed hardware and software to let people communicate, draw pictures and compose and perform music. Some aspects of the project were successful, but it turned out to be very difficult to make systems that really let people express themselves as easily as an able-bodied person can be ordinary art materials or musical instruments. Because technology has developed a lot further since I finished my PhD, I have begun experimenting with re-creating some of the systems I build then so that they can run in the web browser or use mass market electronic devices like smart phones and game controllers.

    • Photo: Andrea Pacheco

      Andrea Pacheco answered on 11 Mar 2019:

      My actual project, to develop a clinical light based device to assess the lung function in neaonates and give the doctors a good tool to help preterm babies to survive.

    • Photo: Laura Farina

      Laura Farina answered on 13 Mar 2019:

      The one I am working on right now. It is the first time that I take care of all the process to build a machine. It is so interesting and challenging!

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