ABOUT THE CREATORS
Lydia Davison
I am a junior in the HCDE undergraduate program and this is my third quarter in the program. I really enjoy working with people and helping people and entered into the program hoping to go on to earn a master’s degree in Occupational Therapy. However, I’m loving HCDE, so I’m considering pursuing a career more within the technical field. I enjoy user centered designing and creating things and working with my hands, however I’ve never done any physical computing, so this was the first class that I had the opportunity to explore some of the possibilities that lie within Arduino.
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Additionally, I am earning two minors, one in American Indian Studies and one in Education, Learning, and Society. I am a member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation and am interested in Native empowerment and identity. My interest in education lies in my family background. I grew up in a family of teachers, which has fueled my passion for education.
Some of my hobbies include volunteering in elementary school classrooms, visiting the beach to playing in the sand and surf, exploring the PNW, and traveling. I’m going to Ghana in the summer and I am very excited, but also slightly afraid because it will be my first time outside the United States!
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Contribution:
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I mainly worked with the implementation of the LCD display. This meant that I experimented with and wrote code for the real time clock and temperature sensor. Additionally, I wrote code in order to have text scroll across the LCD display. I built the Illustrator file for the house part of the Trome and used the laser cutter to make the illustrator file a reality. While I did help to build the Trome, I mainly worked with putting together and assembling the hardware components, breadboard, and Arduino that sat beneath the house part of the Trome. I did experiment with the continuous servo motor, however my attempts at coding the servo motor to behave as envisioned were unsuccessful. I did write code for the buzzer doorbell and alert systems as well as code for the blinking LEDs within the alert systems. Lastly, I helped to solder together many of the perf board, wires, and hardware components
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Charlotte Dissmore
Hello All! I am a sophomore in HCDE and am hoping to get a double degree in HCDE and psychology!
I grew up in Everett and until this past year lived there all of my life. As a Washington local I love the ourdoors and exploring the many beautiful places of the PNW.
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I enjoy most things in the realm of the arts but I especially love singing and theater. I have both acted and directed in many plays and had the privilage of going to state for chior twice. The Oregon Shakespeare Festival in Ashland is my favorite place in the world.
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Though I had never tried physical computing till this project I thouroughly enjoyed working on it.
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Contribution:
My biggest focus on the project was working with the servo motors. I learned how to code both regular servos and the rotating servo and built both the blinds and the rope ladder. I also worked on the physically daunting task of assembling the base of the trome which was more challenging than I had originally thought. I helped code the two buttons, one to raise and lower the rope ladder, and the other which sounded the door bell. I also coded the alert responses for the trome and did a good amount of soldering during this project as well.
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