The subject says everything, so i will brief my issue in short. I am a 10th grade student from India, who is wishing to take part in a Science Exhibition which is going to be held in my school two weeks later.
The thing is that I have been browsing several(thousands) tutorials on your site as well as on the web. But none of them are of my liking(Don't mark me yet), what I mean is that I don't want any kind of Luxury stuff, I want innovative stuff, something beneficial for the society.
I spotted some as automatic door/street lights, auto irrigation system etc. But they are so simple or boring. There was even an IOT dustbin, which would open when I bring my hand towards it, what a luxury, I would instead prefer a garbage sorter(biodegradable and...) in that dustbin....Of course I searched for it but I could not find a proper model. Also I don't want anything common such as an auto solar panel mover...
I hope you understand my issue and my interests...
So I request you experienced readers to provide me with something really new and worth building, I am not asking you guys for a complete tutorial, I just want a simple but mind-blowing social-welfare, or simply an innovative topic.
AN INNOVATION
If it succeeds, I am surely gonna give you credit for that. :o :o :o
Hope I find someone with a creative mind...(since I used up all my creativity thinking, the garbage sorter was my best )
Prashanth J.K @pjkrs60
P.S. I may repeat this post 1 or 2 times in other topics as I am in urgent, please excuse me.
I understand your call for for a innovative and beneficial project. I love such projects as well.
Let me give you some leads how to find such a project:
Observe yourself and the people around you. Where do they get frustrated, or spend lots of time with little outcome? Where do things run inefficiently? What problems do people in your neighborhood have, who are not as priviledged as you are?
Innovative means that nobody has done it before, and that’s why you won‘t find any instructions on the internet. That‘s why it cannot be done in 2 weeks, except if you have years of experience in your field of expertise. That can not be expected from a 15 year old
Maybe the lesson you can learn from this thread is this: rather than trying to save the world in 2 weeks, try to run the long distance marathon. Pick a field of science that you are interested in. Become really good in your field. This will take years. In the meanwhile, I‘m sure you will have lots of innovative ideas. And don‘t be discouraged by bystanders
for your deadline in 2 weeks: Sorry, reduce your goals. Pick something simple that can be done in 2 weeks.
I understand your call for for a innovative and beneficial project. I love such projects as well.
Let me give you some leads how to find such a project:
Observe yourself and the people around you. Where do they get frustrated, or spend lots of time with little outcome? Where do things run inefficiently? What problems do people in your neighborhood have, who are not as priviledged as you are?
Innovative means that nobody has done it before, and that’s why you won‘t find any instructions on the internet. That‘s why it cannot be done in 2 weeks, except if you have years of experience in your field of expertise. That can not be expected from a 15 year old
Maybe the lesson you can learn from this thread is this: rather than trying to save the world in 2 weeks, try to run the long distance marathon. Pick a field of science that you are interested in. Become really good in your field. This will take years. In the meanwhile, I‘m sure you will have lots of innovative ideas. And don‘t be discouraged by bystanders
for your deadline in 2 weeks: Sorry, reduce your goals. Pick something simple that can be done in 2 weeks.
Innovation also means you know and understand some subject completely and in detail, so you can imagine a way to use it or do it that no one else has done.
Even if you got an idea today, could you get the parts delivered in 2 weeks? If you have some hardware in front of you then tell us and maybe we can generate some ideas which use those components.
the social areas might be food, weather, energy, medicine.
an energy harvesting machine that uses wind or waves, or geothermal energy
a form of transportation that uses little energy
solar light that costs little and uses no energy and is not complex. OK, so cut a hole in the roof and install a soda bottle with water. soda bottle
soil moisture.. fish farming for aquaculture.
innovative, and socially beneficial ?
desalination by using only wave energy
beneficial to society.. I guess we need to stay away from killing politicians and the media.....
transportation routing device to alert you when a bus is coming.
You're not going to do anything innovative in two weeks. If you don't even have an idea on what to do yet, I'd be surprised you'd be pulling off anything standard in that period of time.
You may be able to pull off something innovative in two YEARS instead. Two years of hard work and lots of learning about the project you've put your teeth into. Innovative means indeed that it's new, that it's not done before, that it's untested, that it's maybe at the cutting edge of what current technology can even do.
Also before doing anything innovative, you'll have to start with the boring stuff, so you understand how things actually work. Without that basis there is no chance that you can actually build your innovation, no matter how great and feasible the idea.
pjkrs60:
Can I get anything useful on this forum??? PLEASE!!! Other than rude replies to a 14-15 year old...
I think the other posters provided you with some very useful replies. They pull you back to earth and back to reality. Yes it's no fun if your dreams are popped. But if you want to have anything presentable on your school show, it's time to start working!
Oh, and you're the one that is to come up with the actual ideas. Or ask your teachers, I bet they'll have some suggestions for you, possibly including some major parts you can borrow to build the project.
pjkrs60:
Can I get anything useful on this forum??? PLEASE!!! Other than rude replies to a 14-15 year old...
OK I omitted this line.....(Science Exhibition which is going to be held in my school two weeks)
At least please suggest something now...
please define
is the deadline in 2 weeks ?
is the deadline months, but it will be on display for 2 weeks ?
as a note, if there was some simple, innovative thing that could be done in 2 weeks, there would be hundreds of examples on youtube and instructable.
that , or we have not figured it out.
how about a solar powered soil moisture sensor that has probes at multiple depths and can sense soil PH.
and data log, and connects to your blue tooth so that you can put it in with your beans, post date of planting and type of beans. put one on each row of beans, put egg shells on one row
use straw over the soil on one row, water another row twice as often.
at the end of a season, your data would help for the next years crops.
innovation comes from those closest to the need. I am gardening so garden sensors and applications are more in my thoughts than drones or robot cars.
a series of water level sensors along a river, watch as flood waters rise.
rain sensor, gather forecast from the Internet so you do not water this morning if it will rain this after noon. save water.
a helioscope that will reflect light into the dark side of the house. brighten the house, eliminate using power for lights when the sun is shining. use a sensor so that it follows you and brightens whatever room you are in at the moment.
Measure the color of the cat's fur, its resistance and capacitance.
Measure humidity of cat;s nose and send ultrasound to the ears (external!).
From this info, you can try to draw a map of the cat's health. Can be extended to any mammal.
Alternatively, just buy an IR camera and connect it to the Arduino board. You can measure the IR radiance of leaves/trees. Then you can get an idea about tree's health.
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These 2 ideas can be done in one day or two, have relevance in practical terms.
As any innovative idea, they are not market-ready.
A floating device, which measures the water quality in a lake, from where people take their water. Powered by a solar cell. Using radio contact to a station on the shore.
Do you thing a 433MHz communication can fit your idea?
I want to send data from my forest floor robot to its operator somehow (looks similar to your idea). I am still thinking whether to choose wi-fi or radio.
Operator is some 10-100 m away to the robot and data flow is 3-4 values every 5 seconds or so. No data logging, just display.
As usually, my deep desire (:-)) is to keep all as simple as possible.
I have no idea. That was just brainstorming. I believe there are a lot of different radio transmitter/receiver devices for Arduino. Some with a longer range, some with shorter, some with a troublesome (crowded) frequency band. Some using a network, some with direct device to device contact. Just pick yours. The only experience I have with microcontrollers and radio communication is a pair of Micro:bits.
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