First- and second-year info expertise and utilized methods college students showcase time period tasks
Every thing from laser-firing tanks to a cantankerous stuffed cat that verbally insults anybody who pets it was on show at this 12 months’s info expertise and utilized methods truthful at VIU.
The annual occasion occurred Monday, April 14, showcasing 19 tasks from first- and second-year ITAS college students with VIU’s internet and cell improvement program.
“We’ve got all the pieces from a magic mirror that you could speak to and it talks to you,” mentioned Allan McDonald, teacher and program chairperson. “We’ve got a cat that, for those who pet it, it is going to insult you … Yearly they blow me away with what they’re doing and what they will do, in order that’s why I put this on.”
Jack Redberger, Kalev Altosaar and Matt Wells created the Proximity Pal, a unit that folks with visible impairment put on on their chest, which buzzes to warn if the wearer is in peril of strolling into an object.
“The thought initially got here from after I was watching a documentary a few blind individual making an attempt to navigate by way of New York,” Redberger mentioned.
He mentioned the Proximity Pal is supposed to enhance, not substitute, a white cane, however an ultrasonic beam from the gadget can scan the realm in entrance of the wearer and relay that info by sending sturdy rapid-frequency or weak slower-frequency pulses into the wearer’s physique relying on whether or not the consumer is shifting nearer or farther away from obstacles.
“Don’t stand so shut. You’re making me claustrophobic,” was the preliminary greeting from the Grouchy Feline, a stuffed fuzzy kitten with LED eyes that glow purple when it speaks. The challenge was created by Andrew Sutherland, Wes March and Katrina Gibson and March mentioned the thought for Grouchy Feline got here from a T-shirt he owns depicting an ornery cat.
“The cat doesn’t need to be bothered and can let you understand that once you attempt to wake it up,” March mentioned.
Brooks Gill, a second-year scholar, created pictures app Delta Vista to assist photographers align sequences of pictures taken over time with out requiring use of a tripod or having the digicam in the very same place when every picture within the sequence was taken.
“I might go on walks in Cottle Lake, Linley Valley and I began taking a photograph from the identical spot each time, however I needed them to line up completely in case I needed to make a time lapse of it at some point,” Gill mentioned.
Gill mentioned his digicam software program and on-line apps on-line apps he tried weren’t as much as the duty. His Delta Vista program, he mentioned, gives a lot larger consistency in lining up sequences of photographs for later playback and it may very well be utilized to all the pieces from informal panorama pictures to time lapses of constructing renovation tasks and even medical functions.
“Somebody talked about dermatology, like, monitoring mole progress, it may very well be helpful,” Gill mentioned. “I imply, only a regular digicam can do this, however the truth that [the app] retains them collectively and contours them up is likely to be necessary for [observing] minute change.”
Rentium is a web based program authored by second-year scholar Raj Singh to assist property managers and tenants deal with all the pieces from rental contracts and disputes to normal property administration enterprise on-line. He discovered that different property administration packages weren’t tailor-made to B.C.’s particular rental market and rules. He shall be placing his program into manufacturing on the finish of this month.
“I simply realized that there have been a whole lot of conflicts that occur and totally different sorts of conditions and I figured that there needs to be a greater method of coping with this,” Singh mentioned.
Rentium, he mentioned, retains all particulars about properties, working bills, income and tax info and different accounting, rental dispute and rental contract particulars and different info in a single place, which will be accessed by each the owner and tenant. Upkeep requests, as an example, will be filed immediately on-line on the tenant’s dashboard which shares with the tenant all of the historical past and contract particulars about their rental.
“They will actually simply log into their account, obtain it, observe all their funds and invoice funds they’ve carried out, examine how lengthy their lease is lasting, get updates and do all the pieces from right here,” Singh mentioned.
Different tasks included a magic mirror that talks to the consumer, a fridge that gives an stock of its contents to assist with grocery purchasing lists, and a Harry Potter sorting hat.
