Arduino Projects

Friday we showed off our Arduino projects.  Servos, proximity sensors, and remote controls were some of the items we incorporated into them.  We infused our technical knowledge with our creativity to come up with a host of different final products.  Check them out!

Eric and Sravya - "Ballerina"

Rachel and Brandon - "Mickey Ferris Wheel"

Khelsey and Brian N. - "Disco Ball"

Curtis and Marco - "Kick the Balls"

Sam and Po - "Soccer"

Andrew and Brian C. - "Don Quixote"

Sonika and Finian - "Chase the Carrot"

Claire and Mauri - "SpongeBob"

Charlotte and Adrian - "Hypnotic Lollypop"

Cameron and Andres - "Waving"

Media Day

This past Monday (July 22) we had some special visitors.  Qualcomm came to check out our work, like did to them last week. Two local news stations, KUSI and KNSD (our NBC affiliate) came by to interview us.  They spoke to several students, Mrs. Miranda (our Teacher Fellow) and Professor Kastner (our lead faculty), took pictures and recorded video footage.  KUSI broadcast live feeds and had our entire cluster wave to end their morning broadcast.

KUSI aired the piece on us during their 6:00 PM and 10:00 PM broadcasts as well!  If you missed it (or don't get KUSI) here's a link: COSMOS on KUSI News.

Here are a few pictures from the day!

Professor Kastner being interviewed.

Cameraman checking out what we do.

  

Brian N being interviewed by Brad (KUSI reporter).

Sravya being interviewed by Brad (KUSI reporter). 

Curtis and Brian C. showing off their RoboArt.

Everyone's watching and recording! 

Eric speaking with a Qualcomm visitor.

Eric posing with the KNSD microphone.

Qualcomm Field Trip

On Monday, July 15, we visited Qualcomm.  Our hostess Nicole brought along some college interns to show us around.  We had a chance to talk to them about their schools (they were from all over the U.S.) and the differences between Computer Science, Computer Engineering, and Electrical Engineering.  We had a great time and learned a lot touring the manufacturing floor, the Qualcomm museum and more!  Below are some pictures.

Signing in to get our visitor's badge

Qualcomm swag - journals and pens

Waiting for the elevators

Excited for our fist stop

Touring the museum - The evolution of cell phones/mobile devices since the beginning of Qualcomm

Touring the museum - Watching a video of the first mobile call demo made on the actual van used.

Touring the museum

Touring the museum

Touring the museum

Chatting with one of the interns

Touring the museum

Touring the museum

Touring the museum - Self-portrait and collage station

Interns sharing some of Qualcomm's technology

Our cluster!

Scribbler RoboArt Presentations/Demos

Our first project with Scribblers was to maneuver it to draw anything of our choice.  We learned a lot about programming in Python in doing so.  The "People's Choice" award went to Brian C. and Curtis for their "Domo".  The "Faculty Choice" went to Sonika and Brian N. for their "Petronas Towers" with an honorable mention to Marco and Mauri's "Computers in Everyday Life" artwork.

Below are our presentations with demos.

Mauri and Marco - "Computers in Everyday Life"

Rachel and Eric - "Mickey Logo"

Finian and Cameron - "Best Laid Plans... a letter"

Sonika and Brian N. - "Petronas Towers"

Po and Andres - "Nike Logo"

Sravya and Sam - "Two Flowers"

Charlotte and Brandon - "Sword and Stone"

Curtis and Brian C - "Domo"

Claire and Andrew - "One Up Mushroom"

Khelsey and Adrian - "Cube"

COSMOlympics time!

Friday evening was the annual COSMOlympics event.  Each cluster prepares a skit and cheer for the event.  Cluster 1 students performed amazingly and it was great fun watching them.  Watch how they applied our cluster's focus to their skit and cheer!

Cluster 1 Skit

Cluster 1 Cheer - "We got an app for that!"

Students in Action - AppInventor Presentations

Below are the links for some of the first official presentations that the students gave in our cluster.  Students created their own mobile apps for Android devices using AppInventor.

Adrian and Claire - Target Tap - Part 1

Adrian and Claire - Target Tap - Part 2

Cameron and Marco - Ballin

Brian N. and Rachel - Battleship

Sravya and Mauricio - Escape from the Dorm Room

Sonika and Sam - Beware the Square

Khelsey and Finian - Acron Run

Due to technical issues, three presentation (Po and Brian C., Eric and Andres, and Andrew and Brandon) videos are currently not available.  If the issue gets resolved, they'll be posted.

Be sure to check out everyone's presentations slides and get a closer look at the demos online.

What a first week!

It's been a very busy end of the first week.  Everyone finished their AppInventor apps and learned some lessons along the way.  Lessons that weren't necessarily how to program in AppInventor either!   They were more along the lines of saving often, backing up just as often and recording what works as we go.

The presentations of all the groups can be found online at AppInventor Presentations.  Videos of the presentations will be posted this weekend.

The "Faculty's Choice" for best app and presentation went to Brian N. and Rachel for their Battleship game.  The "People's Choice" (voted on by the students) went to Sam and Sonika.  Both teams won UCSD t-shirts for their excellent work.

The academic day ended with an introduction to the Scribbler Robot.  Everyone was excited to meet their new little red robotic friend!

The evening ended with COSMOlympics - a multi-event competition among all the clusters.  It's always a lot of fun and Cluster 1 did an amazing job.  The video of the skit and cheer will be posted weekend as well.  Like I said, it's been a busy Friday!

Welcome to Cluster 1!

Welcome to UCSD COSMOS's Cluster 1 "Computers in Everyday Life" blog site.  Here you'll be able to see photos, find out what we are learning and doing as well as links to our presentations and videos!

Welcome parents!

Scavenger Hunt - Finding out more about our clustermates!

Below are photos from our lab.  It's the first day, we're partnered up and already working on projects!