It has all been milestones since 7 lbs, for the longest time it was no longer interesting moving from one challenge to the next, challenge? Maybe am overestimating; task(s) let’s use that, it all got boring you get the point. Then came Rice360 through the MUBAS design studio offering a chance to see the innovation world from a different angle, I made the cut through a series of screening and interviews, I finished first out of a bunch earning the chance to have my first ticket out of Malawi, not just any other destination Heven, Heavin, USA, USA, Rice University. You get the point, am even too excited to think straight– William Marsh Rice University, Houston, Texas, USA, nailed it.
Hi am Chifuniro Misinde (CH1F), Chifu is just fine. I have been at Rice University in Houston under the OEDK SEED internship for almost 2 weeks now, if you don’t believe in fantasies you haven’t seen this place, remove the scorching temperatures it’s most definitely what most Africans hope heaven is like, I mean that.
PROJECTS:
Why we are here right,
- TEAM SHELMET
Team Members: Janie Lim, Ben Hardwerker, Abubakr Hassan, Chifuniro Misinde.
Information circulation is the basis of survival and existence, the greater the levels of danger and risks the higher the need for better and robust communication systems, this is where shelmet comes in. Shelmet is combination of Smart & Helmet, our goal is simple (in talking at least) create a keyboard or similar type of device that is waterproof, versatile, abides to Ease of Use and as small as possible (preferably less than the size of an iPhone 14) that must interface with the any soldier’s helmet to facilitate communication on the battlefield in non verbal manner using haptics.
2. HAPTICS DEVICE DATA ACQUISITION
Team Members: Janie Lim, Mina Schepmann, Chifuniro Misinde.
I was initially not supposed to be part of this team, this was a project that was started before the international interns got here but I got into it after a few talks with Janie Lim.
This is a research based project targeting to understand the perfect conditions to program helmet haptics for maximum, feasible and efficient transmission of non verbal vibratory messages between a command post and the soldier on the field. We must investigate the correlation between Frequency, Vibratory Duration, Duty cycle and Power consumption to determine the idea vibration conditions for our haptics within the helmet.
Enough for now, let’s link up on my next blog. I will probably talk about how our low fidelity prototype test went.
Bye.