Micro Technician Week 3 Summer 2012
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µTechnician • • The bulldogs.kettering.edu/technician A Look Ahead… 6:30 pm – Open Source Club Cribathon Lounge 9:15 pm – Dance Club Bj’s Lounge 25 Wednesday 12:20 pm – Driverless Cars and the Mobility Internet Cribathon 7:30 pm – Choir Meeting Women’s Resource Center 12:20 pm – Dog Days of Summer Pool 12:20 pm – Technician Meeting 3 rd floor cc 6:00 pm – Allies Good Beans Café 26 Thursday 27 Friday July 25, 2012 Volume 109 Issue 2 Kettering goes to Maker Faire Detroit From Kettering Communications ree Kettering University students and one alumnus will be showcasing their innovations at the 2012 Maker Faire Detroit at the Henry Ford Mu- seum July 28 and 29. e Kettering innovators will bring a little of everything including a mu- sic-playing suitcase, a robot, and urban farm technology to Maker Faire De- troit; visitors to the Kettering booth can try their hand at making one of two projects from the university’s In- novation Quest project. Innovation Quest, part of the En- trepreneurship Across the Curriculum program at Kettering, is a series of hands-on engineering challenges that involve applying an understanding of basic engineering principles and on- the-spot-teamwork to complete a task. Kettering “makers” are: Devin Hauersperger, who will bring one of her “audio touristers,” a suit- case retro-fitted with a modern audio system that serves as a portable sound system. Hauersperger is a Mechanical Engineering major and Acoustics mi- nor from Troy, MI, working for Har- man Automotive Audio Systems as a co-op employee. “I love doing projects on my own outside of school and work,” said Hau- ersperger. “e types of projects I like to do almost always combine technical and creative elements. I wish I could say I came up with this idea myself, but I didn’t. A co-worker saw a photo of a suitcase with speakers in it on the web- site http://blog.theboomcase.com/ and shared it with me. I thought the project would be really fun because it fits my interests perfectly, and it would be an exciting challenge to figure out exactly what is needed on the inside of these things,” she added. Hauersperger enjoys taking old things and repurposing, or modern- izing them, which is why she likes the suitcase audio speaker project. “It in- volves creativity when it comes to the placement of the speakers in order to compliment the style of the suitcase and technical abilities in the actual construction of the whole system,” she said. Eric Barch built a robot with two other Kettering students (Chass Bak- ker and Alex Ford) last summer to ex- hibit at Maker Faire. He has a regular podcast that features interesting proj- ects he builds. It can be seen at http:// ttjcrew.com. He has been making things since high school. e robot is a six-wheel drive off- road platform, controlled by an An- droid app that Barch, a Computer Engineering major from Oxford, MI, wrote. e motivation behind the project was to demonstrate how to build a robotics control platform uti- lizing Android and the Arduino mi- crocontroller. is is Barch’s third year exhibiting at Maker Faire. He is currently working on a startup company called Lava with another Kettering student, Billy Lindeman. eir focus is mobile apps and custom electronics. ey are using the entre- preneurial endeavor as their Kettering co-op job and have spent the past few months meeting with investors in San Francisco and New York. ey plan to graduate in 2013. Continued on page 2.
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µTechnician• •
The
bulldogs.kettering.edu/technician
A Look Ahead…
6:30 pm – Open Source Club Cribathon Lounge
9:15 pm – Dance Club Bj’s Lounge
25 Wednesday
12:20 pm – Driverless Cars and the Mobility Internet Cribathon
7:30 pm – Choir Meeting Women’s Resource Center
12:20 pm – Dog Days of Summer Pool
12:20 pm – Technician Meeting 3rd floor cc
6:00 pm – Allies Good Beans Café
26 Thursday 27 Friday
July 25, 2012 Volume 109 Issue 2
Kettering goes to Maker Faire DetroitFrom Kettering Communications
Three Kettering University students and one alumnus will be showcasing their innovations at the 2012 Maker Faire Detroit at the Henry Ford Mu-seum July 28 and 29.
The Kettering innovators will bring a little of everything including a mu-sic-playing suitcase, a robot, and urban farm technology to Maker Faire De-troit; visitors to the Kettering booth can try their hand at making one of two projects from the university’s In-novation Quest project.
Innovation Quest, part of the En-trepreneurship Across the Curriculum program at Kettering, is a series of hands-on engineering challenges that involve applying an understanding of basic engineering principles and on-the-spot-teamwork to complete a task.
Kettering “makers” are:Devin Hauersperger, who will bring
one of her “audio touristers,” a suit-case retro-fitted with a modern audio system that serves as a portable sound system. Hauersperger is a Mechanical Engineering major and Acoustics mi-nor from Troy, MI, working for Har-
man Automotive Audio Systems as a co-op employee.
“I love doing projects on my own outside of school and work,” said Hau-ersperger. “The types of projects I like to do almost always combine technical and creative elements. I wish I could say I came up with this idea myself, but I didn’t. A co-worker saw a photo of a suitcase with speakers in it on the web-site http://blog.theboomcase.com/ and shared it with me. I thought the project would be really fun because it fits my interests perfectly, and it would be an exciting challenge to figure out exactly what is needed on the inside of these things,” she added.
Hauersperger enjoys taking old things and repurposing, or modern-izing them, which is why she likes the suitcase audio speaker project. “It in-volves creativity when it comes to the placement of the speakers in order to compliment the style of the suitcase and technical abilities in the actual construction of the whole system,” she said.
Eric Barch built a robot with two other Kettering students (Chass Bak-
ker and Alex Ford) last summer to ex-hibit at Maker Faire. He has a regular podcast that features interesting proj-ects he builds. It can be seen at http://ttjcrew.com. He has been making things since high school.
The robot is a six-wheel drive off-road platform, controlled by an An-droid app that Barch, a Computer Engineering major from Oxford, MI, wrote. The motivation behind the project was to demonstrate how to build a robotics control platform uti-lizing Android and the Arduino mi-crocontroller. This is Barch’s third year exhibiting at Maker Faire.
He is currently working on a startup company called Lava with another Kettering student, Billy Lindeman. Their focus is mobile apps and custom electronics. They are using the entre-preneurial endeavor as their Kettering co-op job and have spent the past few months meeting with investors in San Francisco and New York. They plan to graduate in 2013.
Continued on page 2.
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Sat. 6:00 pm – Anime Club Thompson Hall
28– 29 Saturday & Sunday
8:30 pm – RealService Scec
12:20 pm – Technician Meeting 3rd floor cc
30 Monday 31 Tuesday
Page 2July 25, 2012
Entertainmentxkcd #1074
“Moon Landing” courtesy of xkcd.com
Ok, so Spirit and Opportunity are pretty awesome. And Kepler. And New Horizons, Cassini, Curiosity, TiME, and Project M. But c’mon, if the Earth were a basketball, in 40 years no human’s been more than half an inch from the surface.
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Austin Lawrence and Brian Falther ‘10 are researching a solution to food sustainability with the Urban Tech Farm: Project Grand Rapids, which they describe as “A project to organi-cally grow crops through automation, sustainability and efficiency.”
“Our motivating factor is that in 40 years, there are going to be over 9 bil-lion people on the planet,” said Law-
rence, a senior Mechanical Engineer-ing major. “There isn’t enough land on Earth to accommodate and feed that projected population with cur-rent technology. We want to upgrade farming technology and bring it into the city.”
Currently, Falther, a 2010 graduate, and Lawrence are conducting research on growing techniques like aquapon-ics – using fish and recycled water to grow food in an interdependent loop
system without the use of fertilizers or pesticides. Eventually, they would like to design a prototype vertical aqua-ponics farm in a repurposed shipping container, and, after proving sustain-ability, expand to warehouses and oth-er vacant industrial buildings in cities.
**Maker Faire Detroit is this Satur-day and Sunday, July 28 and 29 at the Henry Ford Museum, 20900 Oakwood Boulevard in Dearborn.**
