Tri State Area

For WWT 2024 I helped Damien and Peter assemble a box with a dial, and you can turn the dial to show how much you understand the lesson. This information will be used by the AI to help make accurate and useful notes and study guides. An alternate method could be to simply have an input on the website interface, but the dial is cooler and makes it easier to understand how the system works.

For this year’s WWT we made an AI that intakes the audio of, for example a lecture, and customizes the transcript as the person wants it. The projects physical aspect would be interactive dials, buttons and sensors to show the understanding of a lecture. This project will help people with learning disabilities such as ADHD and Dyslexia better understand the lecture they are in through these customized notes. Along with this the teachers will get live feedback from the students adding more depth to the project.

My contribution to this project was the programming that utilizes the Open AI API given custom prompts (through the webpage) to take the transcript and write a summary of it. Along with this I helped with the video and the connection of the website to the Open AI summarization allowing our website to function for our MVP.

For WWT I worked on setting up enviormental sensors cameras and microphones to help us get all the data we need to create the optimal learning enviorment for our students. The enviormental sensors like the light sensor and co2 sensor paired with our attention dial help us find the optimal conditons for our students.

For WWT this year I interviewed multiple teachers and got their input on our project and their ideas for improving it. I also did the overview of our project for our video and brainstormed what this project could eventually turn into. Some of the big-picture ideas that were thought of were:

• Train the AI preschool teachers to prevent the AI from turning evil and killing everyone

• Thinking about the AI as a student makes unreliability a good thing to make sure the AI isn’t thinking for the students.
• Thinking about it as a student is also good because it increases the acceptance of it into the classrooms by teachers.

Final video:

Peter and I made the dial box out of laser-cut particle wood. This box will show the user’s comprehension of a lecture to help the teacher know what to talk about more. I also made the 2nd top for the dial box, this version will have a frosted acrylic segment cut into the top, with LEDs under it. Whenever the dial is turned, that amount of LEDs will show up to indicate where the dial is pointing.

i chose this because it was left in the up cycle bin so i decided to use the negative sword and bring out the negative with no sword

Me Damien and Peter made an electric generator for Oliver’s steam engine.

It is some wire wrapped around a cardboard toilet paper roll and a magnet inside the coil, attached to the output of the steam engine.

Miles, Peter, and I worked on an electric generator. We tried to attach it to Oliver’s steam engine to generate electricity. It sort of worked, its just copper wire wrapped around a cardboard tube with a magnet on a rod in the middle of it.