Week 1

PRINCIPLES & PRACTICES

In the very first week of the fabacademy 2021 Neil Gershenfeld introduced us to the world of making almost anything (FABLAB). He talked a little bit about MIT, the idea of Fablab and the different kind of tools, machines we can use to making our prototypes. Task for this week are building our own homepage with html to document our assignments, install the github and display a possible final project. As this was the first class in the world of fablab I was very excited to take the class as the word "Making every thing " was unique.

Assigned Tasks:

Plan and sketch a potential final project.

Learning Outcomes:

Formulate a final project proposal.

Identify different projects and uses.

Project proposal in its initial step:

As project selection and proposal is one of the most important part of the academy. I take a lot of time in project selection. At last after research and discussion with my instructor I decide to make automatic Hand sanitizer. In which one can sanitize hand without touching any walve or something. As due to corona all people are becoming health conscious and we see there are sanitizer bottles hanging in public place and offices. But still some people are afraid to use it by saying that the person before them may be corona infected and have touch the bottle they may cause them to be affected. So for this reason I am going to make the automatic hand sanitizer which can motivate people to use it in safe manner and also give information about the level of sanitizer in the bottle.
The rough daigram of project is as:

Fig 1:The rough sketch of the project.

Now I have also sketch the internal structure of the project. The sketch of the internal structure as given:

Fig :The rough sketch of enternal structure of the project.

Motivation:

As I am an Electrical engineer being electrical engineer it my social responsibility to find solution for any social problem. As in now a day the covid 19 has effect all the people in the world. The Government and other Law imposing bodies are trying to motivate people to fight against the virus by following the guideliness and adopting the PPE.

Problem Statement:

There are some reason that is why people are afraid to use the PPE as in public places there are hand sanitizer hanging but some people are not using it by saying that other may contact with sanitizer bottle having corona virus may transfer to them.

Solution:

To solve this problem i am going to make IoT based automatic hand sanitizer in which no one need to touch or contact with the sanitizer bottle. As when the person put his/her hand under the bottle the sensor detect it and apply the sanitizer.
Second thing is that in today world most of the equipment and machines even the patients are monitoring remotely.In the same way I inspired to work or monitor things remotely.So in this project I will also added the components which will give me the status of level of sanitizer in the bottle remotely. I got the idea of monitoring the level of sanitizer from the below video.