This year, the annual NTU College of Science Making & Tinkering Exhibition will be held on 11-12 Dec 2020. More than 15 Science and Technology projects done by NTU students in the last few months for the Making & Tinkering course will be featured (see project details below). We would like to invite you to join us at the exhibition. If you have some ideas that you’d like to explore and build a prototype, please also take a look at the Making & Tinkering site. The PS9888 is a 4AU course (running from May to Jul each year, no fees) and we support students with a generous budget and provide supervision. There are also no GPA requirements to take the course – you just need a team of 2 – 4 members. Requirements of team composition can also be found on the M&T site.
The details of this year’s exhibition are as follows:
Date & Time
- 11 Dec 2020 (Fri) 9:30 am – 6:00 pm
- 12 Dec 2020 (Sat) 9:30 am – 3:30 pm
Venue
MAS Atrium (Level 3), School of Physical and Mathematical Sciences, 21 Nanyang Link, Singapore 637371
To ensure safe-distancing and keeping to the safe capacity limits, we will require visitors to register and book a timeslot to visit.
| Date | Timeslot | Registration link |
| 11 Dec 2020, Friday | 9:30am – 11:00am | Click here |
| 11:00am – 12:30pm | Click here | |
| 12:30pm – 2:00pm | Click here | |
| 2:00pm – 3:30pm | Click here | |
| 3:30pm – 5:00pm | Click here | |
| 5:00pm – 6:00pm (1 Hr) | Click here | |
| 12 Dec 2020, Saturday | 9:30am – 11:00am | Click here |
| 11:00am – 12:30pm | Click here | |
| 12:30pm – 2:00pm | Click here | |
| 2:00pm – 3:30pm | Click here |
SafeEntry rules and regulations:
- Wearing of face masks, and maintaining safe distancing of at least 1 metre during the event;
- (For non-NTU attendees) Submission of health declaration form before the event (Host: Belinda Teo (belinda.teo@ntu.edu.sg / 65923671));
- Due to the maximum in-person event capacity of 50 pax, there will be staggered timeslots for attending the exhibition. Kindly RSVP by the registration links provided below, before 10 December 2020, 23:59.
Projects that will be shown at the exhibition:
| No. | Title | Description |
Automation |
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| 1 | Automated Indoor Painting | In our project, we hope to be able to create a device that will automate most of wall painting, and that the device can be compact, transportable and easy to assemble for indoor use. This device can also be modified for automated disinfection. |
| 2 | AI recycling bin / Baymax | Current recycling rates in Singapore are dismal, and we are hoping to change that via our smart bin kiosk , “BinMax”, which both encourages people to recycle more and also educate them on what can and cannot be recycled. |
| 3 | Micropipette and Microsyringe Automation in Laboratories | The transfer of liquids in science experiments can be extremely labourious and repetitive. We have noticed that this leads to researchers oftentimes being unable to complete experiments on time or having to skip meals in order to complete their experiements. Hence, we are re-purposing a 3D printer to create an automated micropipette and microsyringe system. to allow researchers to be freed of this labourious task and even be able to “multi-task” by running few experiments at once. |
| 4 | Windowbot: A Portable Window Cleaner | From doing household chores, we discovered a difficulty in thorough cleaning of windows, especially for hard-to-reach windows. Inspired by the designs of existing wall climbing robots, we adapted it for the purpose of window cleaning and created Windowbot. |
Cooling and Air Filtration |
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| 5 | Spot Air Cooler | Singapore has a high average temperature of 23.9°C to 32.3°C, with most households are installing air-conditioning units to address this. Often, many turn on the air-conditioning for an entire room for only a single individual , something we found to be not as energy efficient as just cooling the area around the person. As such, the Spot Cooling Device project was born, to allow the cooling of just a localised area! |
| 6 | Clear Ice Maker | In this project, we will research the way to automate the process of clear ice making, and design a machine that can make clear ice from scratch. We also aim to allow the freezing of clear ice into different shapes through different molds beyond the typical cube shape in standard ice maker |
| 7 | Self-cooling Jacket | Our project aims to help those engaged in strenuous activities or exposed to the heat. By cooling down the wearer’s body temperature, it reduces health risks associated with heat. This project presents a self-cooling jacket that uses conduction as method of cooling the wearer. There are sensors embedded into the jacket which increases its functionality. Sensors used include Flex and Temperature sensors. |
| 8 | Portable Air Filtration System | To combat the problem of increasing poor air quality due to rapid industrialization and manufacturing, we have decided to create a portable air filter which is lightweight and portable, providing a user with a constant stream of clean air on the go. This filter is aimed to help remove particulate matter of diameter that is less than 2.5 micrometers from the air, which allows Singaporeans to be able to use this filter during hazy months of July to October, or for users in parts of China which suffer from high levels of air pollution in the winter months. |
Sensing, Remote Control and Data Transmission |
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| 9 | Wireless Stethoscope | The main aim of our project is to provide a easy-to-use and wearable means of diagnosing a patient’s heart and lung sounds for any pathological elements, especially heart murmurs and lung crackles/wheezes. This would allow patients to better track their health, and crucially, doctors to examine patients’ health outside of a clinical setting and within their day-to-day routines: a factor especially crucial for identifying abnormalities at an early stage, where symptoms are difficult to notice. |
| 10 | Remote Microscope | We bring the utility of microscope to a higher level by adding the capability of it being remotely-controlled microscope using a micro-controller coupled with a with a user-friendly controlling and remote interface capability, This allows for researchers or other viewers to view samples on the microscope and control the positioning and zoom remotely without having to be in the lab. |
| 11 | Danger Sensing for Micromobility Vehicles | To prevent injuries from micro-mobility vehicles in everyday use., we have created a danger sensor which can be mounted on micro-mobility vehicles for object./obstacle avoidance and junction (blind spot) sensing. |
| 12 | Voice-controlled Fan Attachment | We aim to increase the convenience of using devices (such as fans) that do not have built-in connectivity, and at the same time, reduce waste from purchasing new devices by upgrading the old ones. Our project does this by designing an add-on to the fan that will house our electrical components and then controlling those using voice commands sent through a smartphone. |
| 13 | Smart Dataloggers (Flyby data collection) | We aim to build data loggers capable of transmitting data to a UAV. This can be useful in scenarios where retrieving the data from these data loggers is tedious or problematic. For example, these can be deployed in hilly terrain or on the surface of the sea. We then allow a UAV will fly over the nodes for automated and speedy retrieval of the collected data. |
| 14 | Identified Flying Object (Dual Drone Delivery System) | We are pushing the boundaries of drone delivery by introducing a dual drone delivery system controlled by one computer. On top of that, we will work on a release mechanism that uses electromagnets to form the release mechanism instead of using a traditional claw mechanism to drop and deliver the packages. |
| 15 | Itty Bitty Blimpy (Indoor Remote Control Blimp) | Drones and quadcopters are a booming industry. However, small recreational drones are fairly loud and commercial drones are even worse! The ‘Itty Bitty Blimpy’ is a hybrid Helium-Balloon drone system. |
Food Related Projects |
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| 16 | Microgreens | Microgreens are germinated seeds that have grown their primary or ‘true’ leaves. Many of them offer many times more nutrients per gram compared to their mature counterparts. Hence, our project aim to create a hydroponic system for microgreens with a water parameter regulation system, allowing for the growing of microgreens in the most optimal fashion with minimal user intervention. |
| 17 | Fresh Fruit Box | Our project aims to detect ripeness of fruits (primarily banana) using camera color detection and machine learning and then control (increase/decrease) ripening of fruits by controlling the amount of ethylene present in the container and by regulating airflow. |