CAPSTONE DESIGN PARTICIPANTS
Muhammad Sarim, Sahifa Shahid, Gagan Malik, Harsukh Deol, Abdullah Majeed
The Spice Mixer
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The Spice Mixer creates custom spice blends precisely and efficiently in the comfort of the user’s homes. It is a smart kitchen appliance with 12 spice compartments that dispenses the correct amount of each ingredient based on the recipe’s instructions. Recipes can be created from scratch on the accompanying app, shared to the community and downloaded from the database. This device eliminates the time and money wasted on experimenting with different spice mixtures and ensures that the dispensed spices will always suit the user’s taste.
Faculty Advisor: Kamyar Ghavam, Rodolfo Pellizzoni
Luka Sokic, Orianna Min, Tim Bruulsema, Jeremy Metzger, Danniel Hu
PHANES
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Project PHANES is developing a rehabilitation device for people living with spinal cord injury or other lower body mobility disabilities. This project is based on the need for people living with SCI to be able to stay physically active in the post-rehab period. The PHANES project is designing and prototyping a passive exercise device that is both affordable and convenient for at home use.
Faculty Advisor: Arash Arami
Scott Watson, Julian Poon, Advika Sarathchandran, Ricky Wang, William Randall
HelioSolar
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Both in Canada and around the world, fixed-tilt solar collectors are widely deployed to generate cost-effective electricity. However, these installations typically lag other forms of solar collection in terms of efficiency. HelioSolar aims to improve the power generation capacity of fixed-tilt solar arrays by introducing a reflector system that can be retrofitted to existing arrays.
The reflector will capture additional sunlight and direct it onto panels. The system will utilize previously wasted space to generate additional low-carbon electricity at a competitive price.
Faculty Advisor: Gerry Schneider
Kaveeshan Thurairajah, Richard Duan, Felix Tai, Yusen Ding
Hole-y Seed
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Team Hole-y Seed aims to create a vibration-propelled soil burrowing robot. The design involves outward extending hairs bioinspired by an Asian plant seed. Simulations and experiments were created to optimise and understand the effect of different hair parameters (i.e., length, spacing, angle) across various granular environments. Minimising both size and number of moving parts means the robot is the optimal choice for a swarm of tiny burrowing surveyors carrying sensor packages, and can be applied to everything from agriculture to space exploration.
Faculty Advisors: Zhao Pan, Yue Hu
Mark Wallace, Emily Moore, Kristal Manboadh, Collin Dang
The Sidekick
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Martial arts, such as Taekwondo, often require 2 or more people for training to practice sparring techniques. This causes difficulty for individuals who want to train by themselves in their own time.
The Sidekick is a reactive martial arts training partner that allows users to train independently according to their needs. The training partner device reacts to users’ strikes by autonomously adjusting the training pads to a new position.
With the Sidekick, martial artists can practice their technique and train independently with confidence and ease.
Faculty Advisors: Cliff Butcher, Mohammed Nassar
P.A.I.N.T
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P.A.I.N.T is being designed to eliminate the need to manually paint parking lots by utilizing a DXF file to direct and coordinate the robot. This project has unique designs involving mecanum wheels, which allow the machine to move in all directions without rotating the chassis and improving the accuracy of the painting process. The robot is being controlled by a raspberry PI that will be run through a python script with a 360-Degree Lidar sensor to control the orientation and accuracy of the robot.
Spinnergy
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The wide adoption of renewable energy is not limited by renewable generation, but rather energy storage technologies. Current solutions, such as lithium-ion batteries, have significant environmental impacts. Our team aims to provide an alternative solution by designing a mechanical system used for residential energy storage and load leveling. Our design is centred around a flywheel installed underground able to store 15kWh of energy which can rapidly supply electricity as a backup power source for your house or to charge an electric vehicle.
Faculty Advisor: Andrew Milne