4A06 Capstone Project Gallery

A sharps container that gives the option for users to acquire a clean needle if they dispose of a used one.

Sharp Xchange was a finalist at The Forge's Project Pitch Competition in November, and won 2nd Place in the Innovative Design challenge of the McMaster Engineering Competition.

Team Members:

• Megan Goodland

• Ashley Gilbank

• Mitch Lemieux

• Erik Reimers

To reduce the health issues and increase customer throughput in the nail service industry, Oomi automates the process of gel manicures. Using image processing and precise motor control, Oomi is able to accurately paint and cure your nails.

Oomi won 1st Place in the Innovative Design challenge of the McMaster Engineering Competition, 2nd place at the Ontario Engineering Competition, represented Ontario at the Canadian Engineering Competition in March, and won both Dean's Choice and People's Choice awards at the 4A06 2018 Expo.

Team Members: 

• Cam Bignell

• Leanne Dias

• Mitchell Kurnell

• Devan Wagner

Bar Rail is an automated bar-tender. It accepts orders from your phone and moves its mixed drink dispenser to you along a bar-mounted rail system. 

Team Members:

• Kari van Vliet

• Lucas Palumbo

To stay ahead of the changing landscape of government legislation and provide law enforcement officials with the tools they need to bypass subjectivity and make critical decisions we present the D.I.D device or Driver Impairment Detection device.

DID competed in the Forge @ Mac 2018 Competition.

Team Members: 

• Uzair Faruqui

• Umar Rehman

• James van Dijk

• Jordan Young

Pill-E is a pharmaceutical device designed to automate the process of filling prescription based weekly blister packs, with minimal human interaction.

Team Members:

• Matthew Engel

• Benjamin Nguyen

• Sarthi Shah

• Peter Wojdylo

ProjecTable: Bringing the social, tabletop experience of board games and improving it with modern technology in the form of a projected board, hand gestures for control, and multiple games in one device.

Team Members:

• Roderick MacLachlan

• Jonathan Saracp

• Matthew Schembri

Capable of recognizing and remembering faces, Arbie makes signing in and booking your appointments easy.

Team Members:

• Kiran Birdee

• Jon La

• Stacie Moltner

• Connor Wong

A smart measurement tool that finds the displacement and path length between any two points in space using inertial measurement units

Distance Tracking using IMUs: A Technical Demonstration of Signal Filtering and Data Transformation.

Team Members:

• Evan Thomas

• Carson Fletcher

Laser-tag train car that slowly follows a track and automatically detects and fires at enemies with an auto-turret.

Very Important Payload.

Team Members:

• Romani Gergis

• Sandeep Natta

• Jacob Siekierski

A rover on treads that pollinates the squash-family plants by detecting flowers and tapping each of them when it’s the right time.  Meant as a backup plan for the declining bee population so we can still grow vegetables.

Polli was the recipient of the 2017 People's Choice Award!

Team Members:

• Colin Beswick

• Roxanna Delima

• Lazar Kojovic

• Benjamin Scheffel

A system that detects veins in your arm using IR light and projects a map of them back onto your arm for medical use, such as drawing blood in hospitals and monitoring drug delivery for curing spider vein networks

Team Members:

• Jason Amar

• Peter Bartosik

• Dawson Bonneville

A “Nuclear Roomba”, the RadRover autonomously searches for radioactive contamination and cleans it up. The RadRover significantly improves on existing survey methods, and could vastly improve the efficiency & safety of labs and site decommissioning.

Team Members:

• Liam Lawrence

• David Philpott

• Michael Tucker

• Matthew Vukovic

A robot toy that plays a number of games meant as a programmable platform.  Uses RFID to determine when you place various objects into it.  Works on a play board; you can control where it goes on the board using your phone.

Team Members:

• Thomas Grcevic

• Amr Ibrahim

• Lendl Lobo

• Ryan Mclean

A police robot that can climb stairs at human speeds desired by Hamilton Police Force and withstand being kicked down the stairs without stopping.  Uses a system of treads on multiple sections to climb stairs.

Team Members:

• Chad Davis

• Kai Groves

• Eric Moraitis

• Joel Smith

A packaging robot for your small business needs.

Team Members:

• Fares Badr

• Gregory De Launay

• Romani Gergis

• Joshua Racette

A running pace setter robot races around the track (at up to 8m/s) for running teams to train with.

Team Members:

• Desmond Flowers

• Ahmed Ganzory

• Paul Rochus

• Daniel Wilding

The sntch is the first micro drone designed for interactive gameplay.

"sntch" was the recipient of the 2016 People's Choice Award!

Team Members:

• Eric Daigle

• Daniel Elbirt

• Alex Ianovski

• Brendan Kass

Dubbed VIRGIL or Voice-activated Intelligent Robot with Guided Imaging Limb, the device acts as a robot assistant to perform various tasks, such as handing someone tools or sorting objects based on size or colour.

Team Members:

• Chris Adams-McGavin

• Amanda Kelly

• Brandon Wagstaff

• Mike Zamboni

A security system that can survey an area and follow designated persons of interest real-time via onboard sensors, camera, and programming..

Team Members:

• Ben Bowcott

• Henry Frankis

• Andrey Goussev

• Nathan Schut

• Luke Zhang

A two degrees of freedom turret is remotely controlled via radio signals from a corresponding headset.

Team Members:

• Martin Conte

• Novak Ivanovski

• Matt Leyden

• Sean Somogyvari

An autonomous quadcopter built for the sole purpose of exploration and discovery. 

Team Members:

• Kyle Ansilio

• Andrea Beauchamp

• Annmarie Tong

• Stephanie Bysice

An autonomous micromouse robot that is programmed to solve any 16x16 maze in its final run with an expected target time of 15 seconds or less.

Team Members:

• Shamil Saeed

• Kushagra Dixit

• Yunze Cui

• Andrew Beaton