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Our group was one of six teams during the 2016 Spring semester of the EPICS program to work on projects. Engineering Projects in Community Service, or EPICS, is a course that students may take to gain technical skills while helping local organizations thrive. 

This semester we were given a budget to help My Possibilities buid a piece of technology to help their students with limited mobility to create art. 

Goals:

* Create a device that allows for those with limited hand mobility to make art using head movements.

* Design a unique and efficient way to create art using universal drawing materials.

* Have a prototype of the design finished by the end of the spring 2016 semester.

* To create a device that is appealing to both intended students and other HIPsters as well.

* To create a device that has no detrimental effects to the classroom process and the safety of Hipsters.

* Deliver a final product that fits the standards of the My Possibilities team by the end of the Fall 2016 semester.

 

The diagram on the screen outlines how we plan to track head movements to create the digital art. As you can see, the user will wear a hat or glasses of some sort that contain Wii remote hardware. The emitter under the screen emits an infrared light to the hat or glasses, and the Wii remote will be connected to our Raspberry Pi via Bluetooth. The movements of the glasses or hat will then determine the cursor movements on the screen in an art program, thus allowing the HIPster to create digital art. The digital art can then be physical drawn by the drawbot after being collected.

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