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QUADCOPTER TEST PLATFORM

This customized quadcopter will be used as a test platform for sensors, motors and imaging tools. Using GPS, an FPV camera, the Ardupilot flight controller and the DJI Flamewheel 450 frame, this multirotor will test autonomous and controlled flight for reconnaissance, search and rescue and drone racing. A few features have been customized like 3D A0

SUMOBOT

I am coaching a school robotics team at Blue School in Manhattan. The students have some coding experience, some building (LEGO) experience. We are using the Makeblock platform to learn on. I am building a prototype with ultrasonic sensor mounted with a 3D adapter and light reflectance sensor (line follower) to show the design and

“ARENA” IS AMAZING

As a Geographer and Photographer (and as a Human) I was fascinated by this short film, watching the patterns in the landscape (human-made and natural) move like a time-lapse in geological change. Beautiful. How was this made?, check out Amber Willams at Directors Notes who interviewed director Páraic McGloughlin about the making of “Arena”: directorsnotes.com/2018/04/04/paraic-mcgloughlin-arena/

Learning Empathy through Design Thinking

As a consultant and teacher in an afterschool program, the League of Young Inventors, in Brooklyn, NY, I help develop curriculum and teach youth how to be inventors. We do so by exploring how to design something to solve a problem or address a need. In addition to providing a historical and geographical context, we