4A06 Capstone Project Gallery

Automated Litter Box that targets owners with back problems. It is self cleaning and ensures the cat's safety through a multiple sensors located within the litter box. A moving mechanism is used to lift the waste bag to reduce the need for lower back flection.

Team Members:

• Noah Sambo
• Caroline Marrelli
• Emmanuel Rajendran
• Yuchen Shu

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Our team has partnered with the quantum key distribution (QKD) satellite company QEYnet to develop a space-based laser beacon module to act as a guide for their Quantum Satellite Rekeying Module (QSRM).

The laser beacon sends a beam down to Earth from the satellite targeted at a ground station which then can be used to locate the satellite in orbit. While the ground station is receiving the beam from the laser beacon, it is assumed the ground station and the QSRM are aligned allowing quantum rekeying data transfer to commence. Since the laser beacon and QSRM are coaligned, if the ground station receives the beam from the laser beacon, the QSRM will also be in proper position to receive the quantum rekeying data.

Throughout the development of this project our team has been responsible for creating requirement specifications, integrated component documentation, and the engineering design of the module.

Team Members:

• Diana Dumitrescu
• Alexander Barovier 
• David Hammon
• Malcom Hodgins 

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American football is one of the most popular sports in the US school system. Every year, thousands of coaches hold tryouts, hoping to find players with the potential to be star quarterbacks. But there’s a lot of technique that goes into a good throw. And during a busy tryout coaches could lose track and players with good form could be missed.

The Perfect Spiral-ator is a video analysis tool that uses form estimation and computer vision techniques to scan through football tryout footage. The software evaluates players based on 3 criteria; form, ball trajectory, spin rate. The coach would simply record the throwing portion of the tryout and upload it to the Spiralator website for analysis.

With The Perfect Spiralator, you can be confident that your roster will be filled with nothing but the best.

Team Members:

• Zainab Husain 
• Krishtee Dyuti
• Rashik Shahjahan

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Jane's Gardens is a fully automated greenhouse capable of producing high-quality cannabis. The design consists of a compact, controlled environment in which temperature, humidity, soil moisture, and light exposure are all constantly monitored and regulated. Intended for individual use to grow cannabis from the privacy of your home while adhering to provincial legislation and restrictions. This system is adaptable and can be used both indoors and outdoors. Equipped with a mobile application, the user can monitor the response systems, interact with the equipment, track progress, and even learn about the various growing stages.

Team Members:

• Abdullah Mir 
• Karam Ghanem
• Julia Bauer 
• Haider Rahmani
• Joseph Capanella

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It is a device to help a colour blind artist to identify colours of objects exposed to different lighting effects, and produce those colours by mixing acrylic paints.

Team Members:

• Hadeel Al-Zubaidi
• Amanda Huang

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Graphos is a device meant to facilitate the non-destructive digitization of material textures for 3D graphics. This device is capable of recording visual parameters of a surface and conveying it to computer graphics software which, by employing physically based rendering techniques, can produce photorealistic media. The main competitive advantages of Graphos are its low cost, tabletop form-factor, portability features, accessibility, and the overall independence it can provide to artists and designers.

Team Members:

• Arthur Mendez-Rosales
• Adam Otto 
• Colin Mohr
• Dylan Genuth-Okon

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Motion Health's socks track biometric data for the user and report the data back to the user via a cell phone application. Specifically, the dorsiflexion angle range of motion is tracked continuously while the user is walking. This data is relevant to users recovering from ankle sprains, as they lose their range of motion and risk long-term ankle instability if their recovery is poor. Physiotherapists are typically consulted when recovering from ankle sprains and they provide feedback on the progress of the recovery. The biometric data provided by Motion Health socks will provide much more feedback for the user while also giving the physiotherapist additional information to make assessments with.

Team Members:

• Harrison Tratnik
• Keara Wilson 
• Malav Patel
• Ronan Garrison 

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CookIt! is an easy-to-use phone app solution for home cooks to make perfectly cooked meals every time. The app uses heat transfer simulations based on the mass and type of the cut of meat being cooked to return optimized cooking parameters (temperature, time etc.) to the user. The model takes the chemistry of cooking into consideration, including the different thermal properties of protiens, lipids, and carbohydrates contained within the muscle and the denaturing of proteins with temperature. The model matches results obtained with a thermocouple testing apparatus, and the application has been designed for speed, ease-of-use and aesthetics.

Team Members:

• Alexander Parent 
• Shawn Joubran
• Pedro Oliveira 
• Joshua Eizenga

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Our group has developed an innovative approach to modify a standard digital camera to enable it to covertly take high quality images in the dark, while also preserving the camera’s original ability of taking photographs during the day.

Team Members:

• Stephen Chupil 
• Damon Geelen
• Kean Foy 
• Nathaniel Webster 

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The Annular Environment Tool Head Assembly (AETHA) is a modular and adaptable testing platform for the development of novel fuel channel inspection technologies for the CANDU reactor. AETHA will allow for versatile, relevant testing of novel technologies being investigated to address critical fitness for service inspections in the CANDU nuclear industry.

Team Members:

• Matthew Poloni

• Lucy Von Appen

• Matthew D'Alessandro

Introducing Flora, the convenient saver of both time and plants. Have comfort in knowing that no matter how busy your life gets, you never have to worry about watering your plants.

Team Members:

• Sherwin Hassan

• Jay Chaykowski

• Nicholas Bagnato

• Jonathan Favero

• Martin Zelikovsky

WokBot is an autonomous cooking assistant designed for busy individuals who want to eat Chinese cuisine at home without wasting time with meal preparation. Simply load the ingredients, choose a dish and WokBot will inform you when your meal is ready.

Team Members:

• Raj Patel

• Andreas Hitzler

• Eric Yang

• Jiupeng Zhang

• Ali Kore

Handy Pantry is a food storage solution designed for the modern kitchen. A mechanical system allows dry food items to be efficiently stored beneath the kitchen corner counter while minimizing time spent by the user. The Handy Pantry aims to reduce food waste and streamline the food storage and retrieval process.

Team Members:

• Nash Shrestha

• Jana Strizak

• Haley Glavina

• Jackson Tarlin

• David Xing

ADAM is an automated pill identifying and dispensing system that sends notifications to its user when it's time to take their prescribed medication. ADAM aims to eliminate the need for traditional pharmaceutical blister packs, which have no method of ensuring medical adherence and are non-recyclable.

Team Members:

• Duncan Clackdoyle

• Matei Banica

• Ryan Clark

• Michael Howorucha

• Amit Rao

Light.O is an autonomous drone that can follow you and provide a light source.

Team Members:

• Keru Chen

• Mengshi Wang

Welcome to 2unify. The world's first "hands-free" guitar tuning stand that operates on the principles of robotics and artificial intelligence. The future of music has arrived today.

Team Members:

• Ryan Ng Cheong Ton

• Michael Salamaszek

• Michael Jobity

• Mitchell Wong

• Curtis Graham

ShopLyfter is a device that aims to improve your shopping experience by attaching to any standard shopping cart and autonomously following you as you shop so you can skip the boring part of grocery shopping.

Team Members:

• Ty Kerr

• Manav Sood

• Sage Monteith

Friday, April 5th, 2019

12:00 PM - 8:00 PM

Student Centre Marketplace in McMaster University Student Centre

For more information on this event, please contact our Undergraduate Administrative Assistant at truemaeh@mcmaster.ca

Eclipse aims to improve driving safety and comfort by blocking glare from bright lights on the windshield. It can protect the driver's view from multiple light sources simultaneously, and keep track of them as they move across the driver's view.

Team Members:

• Mario Ponce Tovar

• Steven Mckiel

• Liam Dow

• Brendan Fallon

Introducing S.T.A.R.S., the newest advancement in soccer training technology. The system tracks a player with a high degree of range and accuracy and will record a player's progress as they complete drills.

Team Members:

• Craig Treen

• George Lacatus

• Bibeson Krishnadasan

• Daniel Parent

• Colin Colterjohn

A robot that mimics your movement but at 1/4 scale so you can paint models as if they were much bigger

Team Members:

• Hani Dawood

• Zachary Asis

• Angus Barber

• Tyler Kashak

As a Nanoparticle Reactor Instrumentation and Measurement System, nanoRIMS is a research lab's one-stop-shop for the automated synthesis and optical characterization of gold nanoparticles.

Team Members:

• Liam Flannigan

• Phillip Pastolero

• Brian McCrindle

• Hannah McPhee

CircuitSmart is an intelligent breadboard device to assist users in building and debugging their circuits.

Team Members:

• Lindsay Vasilak

• Jameson Wong

• Abigail Gaulin

FRASS is a robot that can learn it's surroundings, it can autonomously roam a household while communicating it with its user to detect any possible threats using onboard cameras and image processing algorithms.

Team Members:

• Yousef Sheteiwy

• Iain Lambie

• Nathan Tan

• Kirushigan Parathan

The Mobile Cleaning Remotely Operated Underwater Vehicle (MC-ROV) is designed to remove zebra mussels, algae and other debris from underwater infrastructure. This device will reduce the need for human dive teams in the industrial setting.

Team Members:

• Spencer Mcdermott

• Taz Colangelo

• David McShannon

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 Saraco

• 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