Interactive Computer Zoo
Location
Student Hall for Exploration and Development (SHD/011) - 011-1330 General Makerspace
This booth lets kids interact with small simple computers. Different demonstrations show: interactive sound creation, light display, and computer control. With these inexpensive computers, Kids can create their own interactive toys. Some kids use these to make cool costumes for cosplay, make their own games, create robots for watering their plants or controlling cameras, or even make their own computer vision systems. The field of Computer Science that read sensors and makes motors move is called physical computing. Microcomputers, like Arduinos and Raspberry Pi computers, are so small they can be sewn into clothing to create wearable computers. These make fun costumes, fashion statements, and nerd-gear. Come experience these sight and sound demonstrations. Every year something is different!
A child playing with a micro-computer, working with an RIT student.
Algorithms are used in our lives, every day. This shows using an algorithm to make life easier by testing batteries together, to find the one bad battery in the batch.
Some of the many demonstrations of the Interactive Computing Zoo.
Before there were digital computers, there were gears. Gears were used to compute, and move things. This is an example of a mechanical machine.
A mother and son experiment with a computer gear system that makes music.
Before there were digital computers, there were gears. In this images, Dr. Thomas B. Kinsman (Zoo Director) shows how gears used to be used to change forces and speeds. In the past, gears were used to compute the tides.
Location
Student Hall for Exploration and Development (SHD/011) - 011-1330 General Makerspace
Topics
Exhibitor
Thomas Kinsman
Dessa Shapiro
Aparnaa Senthilnathan
Teddy Davies
Robert Tetreault
Liam Hainsworth
Hannah Clapp
Choi Eric
Clark Hochgraf
Hannah Hlotyak
John West
Ben Steele
Garret Arcoraci
Jake Adams
Jessica Ancillotti
Robert StJacques
Anthony Audi
Aidan Roullet
Akiri Jones
Andrew Wrightson
Aum Patel
Chidera Essell
Jonathan Luo
Kevin Huang
Kushagra Gupta
Lianna Pottgen
Myra Mulongoti
Pravallika Nakarikanti
Serena Akpoyibo
Zachary Sowers
Gonzalo Estrella
Jacob Lurvey
Kelsey Luke
Noah Wexler
Patrick Wynne
Shawn Tyson Jr.
Atharva Dhupkar
Kamron Cole
Advisor(s)
Thomas B. Kinsman (Senior Lecturer) is working with Michael Buffalin IV
Organization
I am the outreach coordinator for GCCIS. Every year I take a collection of interactive computer programs to Imagine RIT. We have students and parents decide to come to RIT at our event. I will have about 40 demonstrations.
I am working with Mike B
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