Plantr is an empathetic plant that connects you with your loved ones who’s far away from you. It mirrors your inner state, your emotions and feelings, and communicates them to your loved ones visually. It fosters heart to heart connection.

Create a feeling of togetherness when living apart through the experience of watching a scary movie

Exploring ways to augment human-plant interactions to create a feeling of companionship between houseplants and residents that live alone.

The project aims to automate the turning on and off the room lights by sensing a person entering or exiting the room. While in the room, the room lights could be triggered on and off by using a smartphone. For controlling the light the device would be set on already existing switch and mechanically move the switch to automate the process.

Fresh Eyes is a smart contact lens case that non-intrusively tells users that their contact lens has been cleaned and when to replace a set of contact lens with a new pair. Most useful for users who wear monthly contacts–where they need to clean their contact lens daily and replace them every month.

GuaGua is a text-based bot. It acts as your friend and can send you traveling photos from all over the world. GuaGua will not always be online since it needs personal time. You can ask it about touring tips, and it can recommend you traveling cities. As your friend, it also looks for your help and advice sometimes.

Movie Eva can help you find a movie for the day! Just simply send her a selfie and she will recommend a movie based on your mood. Prefer texting? You can text her a genre type you desire or tell her how you feel today.

Memo is a facebook messager bot.

Cleo is a playful take on a weather bot, delivering the information you need with whimsy and a little mystique.

Stuck in a food rut and eating the same few meals over and over? Sous helps users craft new recipes using the ingredients they already have at home. Leveraging Amazon's Alexa platform and the Spoonacular API, Sous leads users through a series of questions and presents them with a final recipe that meets their tastes and needs.

Allows you to simulate conversations you could have or have had with your partner. With apple one can build a greater understanding of their partner and relationship through conversation.

This project is to create a bot with programming language Ruby. The goal is to get familiar with coding and usages of gems.

This product could be given to a child to help them enjoy their go-to-bed time and fall asleep through transforming the bedroom into a soothing environment.

This project provides a way for people in long distance romantic relationships to go to sleep with the presence of a significant other surrounding them.

A body clock for women to tell when period-related events are coming and be prepared.

The goal of this project is to encourage users to run everyday, but in an ambient manner so they don't feel the pressure if they really don't want to.

Ambient device that tells you when your period is coming and when you are ovulating in a discreet way.

This is an ambient object that displays water moisture level of your house plant with motion. The motion will represent a waving motion, like the plant i "waving for your attention," to remind you to water it when the moisture level of the soil is low.

My roommate and I often forget the light in the living room. So I want to create a lighting control that turns off the light if it does not sense anybody for over 30 mins.

Create a connected system that could collect real-time climate data and offer customized advice on the comfortable clothes to wear for users.

A meditation light timer and temperature sensor that is personalized to an individual's needs in her home.

The enchanted forest is a IoT ecosystem with interactive LED lightnings designed to activate the forest area in the Tunxis golf club as a new event venue.

By making this bot, I want to keep CMU student updated with the trending topics in the technology field in Europe. I also juxtapose the news titles with quotes of the German philosopher Heidegger. It is like how Heidegger would perceive the news. I hope this can make some sort of sense at some points. Perhaps his thinking of “being and time” can give us a different perspective of looking at today’s tech trends and inspire us on our projects.