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How could we improve our school by creating smart devices?
Design and build a smart device that could improve or benefit your school. Your goal is to provide a useful and innovative solution to a problem affecting the school community or school environment.
Each team will build and program a smart device using an IoT electronics kit that has a microcontroller with Wi-Fi capability, as well as various inputs and outputs that can be connected. Each team will also design and program a web app (for phone, tablet, or desktop) that interacts with the smart device. In addition, each team will create a product marketing website for their smart device.
At the end of the semester, all teams will demonstrate and explain their smart devices at a public poster presentation.
Design Criteria
Useful: Smart device and web app should provide value by solving a problem, fulfilling a need, or improving an existing situation in the school.
Usable: Smart device and web app should be easy to understand and interact with.
Feasible: Smart device should be possible to prototype and could become a real product.
Innovative: Smart device should be unique or different from existing products or solutions.
