Kendra Hills + Eli Ericson + Will Friedrichs Our project, SRT LED, is an interactive public art installation that will illuminate poorly-lit pathways and underused spaces along Philadelphia’s Schuylkill River trail (SRT). Sensor-activated LEDs respond to visitors’ movements with dynamic lighting effects, contributing to placemaking and engagement along the city’s riverside. Our motivation The Covid-19 […]
Authors: Asha Bazil, Jenna Epstein, Kristin Chang, Celine Apollon INTRODUCTION Philadelphia residents are experiencing unprecedented levels of food insecurity. 17% of Philly’s population was considered food insecure in 2021,while in 2019 the City generated approximately 240,000 tons of food waste. On top of this, recent escalations in food costs mean that people are relying more […]
Authors: Ben Aiken, Henry Feinstein, Johnathan Clementi, and Mariya Lupandina Project Description Vitalitree is a street tree health monitoring device that aims to increase the survival rate of street trees and provide more granular information on environmental conditions at the neighborhood level. The hope is to enable more efficient tree management practices and to make […]
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Schuylkill Sensors
Team: Saffron Livaccari, Jie Wang, Jiali Yao, Yebei Yao Background In 1940, the Delaware River was one of the most polluted in the nation. A dream of a clean river seemed terribly hopeless, as one EPA official stated in 1973 that the Delaware River may never be fishable (Kauffman Jr., 2010). Although hopes were low, […]
Local-scale Stormwater Inlet Monitoring System Aaron Katz, Jie Li, Zoe Kerrich Overview LoSIMS, a local-scale stormwater infrastructure monitoring system, provides an opportunity to address street flooding with a low-cost, distributed sensor network implemented in stormwater inlets across Philadelphia. Philadelphia has significant problems with stormwater management – and the city chose over a decade ago to […]
Background Submersible pumps are useful for controlling water flow. Paired with an Arduino microcontroller, these pumps can automate the flow distribution process, which can be useful for applications such as aquariums, fountains, and systems for irrigation, refilling and aeration. This tutorial shows how to use an Arduino Uno to control a submersible pump. The first […]
INTRO In this Arduino tutorial, a method for sensing when a door is open or closed is discussed. The tutorial expands upon a tutorial by “Arduino Get Started” by adding a buzzer sensor to sound when the door has been open for more than 30 seconds. REQUIRED HARDWARE Arduino UNO or Genuino UNO (1) Door […]
This tutorial shows how to detect movement direction in two dimensions using an Arduino Uno and two HC-SR04 ultrasonic distance sensors. I wrote my sketch to detect movement from left to right or from right to left, but it should be possible to adapt for other use cases, like detecting movement into or out of […]
Overview: In this tutorial we will explore the benefits of LoRa and program one LoRa enabled dev-board to receive inputs and transmit those inputs to another LoRa enabled board which will coordinate a response. Specifically, we will build two circuits: one that senses when one of two push switches has been pressed and transmits a […]
This tutorial outlines how to use an Arduino Uno microcontroller (or equivalent device) and load cell sensors to measure the weight of objects on a shelf. Being able to measure weight in this way is more efficient than weighing each item individually on a scale and calculating the total. Additionally, setting up these sensors and […]