How to assemble the Maker Faire Robot

If you have received the maker kit of a paper robot at Maker Faire Singapore, here are the assembly instructions

Design your own 3D paper toy using free and easy to learn tools like Tinkercad and pepekura

 

iCare: Cognizant workshop 26th June, 1.45pm to 3.15pm

26th June, 1.45pm to 3.15pm Register

The workshop will showcase the transformation that can be expected in healthcare where existing solutions and systems will be merged and simplified to guarantee high levels of health care. Cognizant supplies IT solutions to many of the world’s leading pharmaceutical companies and health-care providers, and we have identified several exciting areas where the truly connected health-care sector is taking shape. In particular, the rapid technical developments within social networks, mobile devices, data analysis, cloud solutions and sensors are creating several exciting possibilities for hospitals, health-care providers, health-care recipients and the preventative care market. The workshop will showcase and demo a few examples of upcoming possibilities for the health-care sector.

The connected hospital

The Internet of Things and a wide standardisation of communication protocols have paved the way for new technology platforms where everything from health technology, measuring instruments and mobile devices can communicate with one another. A good example of this is the iCare project. iCare is an ambitious software project that lets health-care employees use tablets to access patients’ health status information in real time. By using wearable sensors and connected medical equipment that measure vital functions such as blood pressure and blood count, the staff can do more than just make their rounds. Now they can monitor their patients’ health status remotely and be notified quickly of any changes that may be warning signs of a decline in patient health.

Sensors are another exciting area of innovation within the health-care sector. Today we have micro cameras that can be swallowed to give physicians amazing insights. Thousands of images are recorded whilst the camera travels through the patient’s intestinal system, which helps the physician make a diagnosis and identify problem areas.

The connected patient

Today’s technology lets patients play an active role in their own health care and rehabilitation. Patients can use consumer-adapted sensor technology, such as connected blood pressure and blood sugar measuring equipment, to track their own values and see how their treatments are affecting them. By keeping patients updated on their disease developments and actively providing input on their treatment, they become more invested in their own recovery. This reduces the amount of cases of patients who do not adhere to their medication programmes. The overall results include higher levels of patient engagement, fewer follow-ups and reduced health-care costs.

 

The connected preventative care market

 

An important part of the rehabilitation process is motivating people to make health-conscious life choices and seek care as early as possible. The use of health bracelets and apps can motivate individuals to live in a more healthy fashion. This new sensor technology can be used with gamification in order to increase the individual’s health consciousness and encourage healthy life choices such as meal planning.

 

The Internet of Things has created new possibilities for hospitals to increase the effectiveness of their employee resourcing and information sharing. Wearable sensors give patients a lot of information-based feedback on their health data, and can play an important part in improved rehabilitation and preventative care. Sensors, mobile apps and gamification can therefore enable the health-care sector to make huge advances in the long-term improvement of people’s health.

 

The massive amounts of data generated in the health-care sector today can give us countless insights — We just need to utilise them properly.

The Autodesk Gallery comes to Maker Faire Singapore

From the buildings we live and work in to the machines that propel us forward to the products that enrich our lives, we live in a designed world.

Bringing together stories of exceptional design and engineering from across the globe, the Autodesk Gallery celebrates the creative process and shows how people are using new technology to imagine, design, and create a better world.

The SCDF Red Rhino comes to Maker Faire Singapore

HOPE Technik‘s showcase for Maker Faire Singapore includes the Red Rhino and a 3 hour long Its Alive! Mini Robotics workshop where you can learn to build your own robot.

The Maker Faire Singapore Learning Passport

One of the primary cornerstones of the Maker Movement is the learning mindset that makers have and which we hope to spread through the Faire. We are therefore very happy to announce an exciting initiative for Maker Faire Singapore 2016, in collaboration with the Lifelong Learning Council and the LearnSG seed fund.

How it works

Step 1: Get a learning passport at the information counters

Step 2: Make

Try your hand and making something and pick a new skill

Step 3: Snap

Snap a photo of your creation

Step 4: Share

Share it on Facebook of Instagram using the hashtag #LearnSG

Step 5: Print

Now head to the photobooth to print your photo.

What you can make. All activities are free of charge for Maker Faire Singapore attendees

Light Puppet Theatre. Learn about light and shadows in this DIY shadow puppet theatre. Bring it home for hours of fun for children.

String Art- String art teaches you that Science, Maths and Art are not very far about. Get an appreciation for geometry and patterns through this fun craft, and make a little bookmark

Soldering

Learn the skill of soldering –  a key skill for any maker.

Paper Quilling-Coils of paper glued into beautiful shapes. Learn this addictive craft from the simplest of everyday materials.

Blink a bottle –Look at the lights on these bottles! learn about basic decoupage and make these little night lanterns

Yarn bombing: Street art with yarn – and make these little critters, one to bring home and one for the community

Curious Design Network – Learn about empathy when you make something for someone. Design a notebook or a coaster, this time for a friend.

This project is supported by the LearnSG seed fund

 

 

 

Digigirlz @ Maker Faire Singapore

DigiGirlz, a Microsoft YouthSpark program, gives middle and high school girls opportunities to learn about careers in technology, connect with Microsoft employees, and participate in hands-on computer and technology workshops.

Happening at Maker Faire Singapore LT4 on 25th June 2016, 10am to 1pm. Register Now!

Jessica Wong	DigiGirlz – Past, Present and Future   Introduction to Computational Thinking
Lesly Goh – Director of Analytics, Microsoft APAC	Girl Power in IT – How I started my infocomm journey
Networking Tea Break
Jessica Wong, Shuna Khoo, Candy Wong	An Hour of Code Workshop – Everyone starts somewhere (TouchDevelop)
Gary Lim	Closing Remarks

Every day is a funfair with the One Maker Group and the Singapore Maker Association

So, you have seen the crafters and the tech enthusiasts. You have met our young makers. You understand that the maker movement is a combination of crafting, technology, Science and sheer audacity. Our community partners from the One Maker Group bring new meaning to this term, with a bunch of pretty crazy projects.

Here is a sneak preview into some scenes that have been going on in the labs for the past weeks.

Modular Hovercraft

Designed and developed by 13 year old Karthikey, The Hovercraft Team does not want to just glide humans along the ground with its hovercraft, it wants to glide everything else too. With its modular design, you can do things like hover-ball (football), bumper-craft (bumper cars) and even laser-craft (laser tag), and each module can be switched out for you to customise your own fun and unique experience.

Plastic Injection machine

Inspired by Precious Plastic, the team will be melting plastic waste and  remoulding them into all manner of plastic products with their self-made plastic injection machine. Over the past few weeks, the team has also been caught melting aluminium, so who knows what else they have up their sleeves…?

Holograms

If you like tiny smartphone holograms, then you’re going to love the massive holographic display that the team is working to bring to you this Maker Faire. And you can own your own DIY hologram kit too!

Misbehaving umbrellas

Don’t go near the umbrellas! Inspired by how humans only notice machines and their importance when they misbehave, these silly shades have been rigged to react to humans in all the wrong ways. Be sure to approach them with an open mind, because these not-so-open umbrellas will make sure you will never see them the same way again.

Cotton Candy Shooter

Think Spider-Man, but with cotton candy. Inspired by none other than Spider-Man’s amazing web-shooting skills, this team of sweet folks wants to make you as sweet as themselves by spraying you with streams of cotton candy! Their one-of-a-kind cotton candy shooter is a combination of molten sugar, rapid bursts of air, the Bernoulli Effect – and many hours of sticky fun.

Blacksmithing

Co-developed with HomeFix XPC. Inspired by Man-At-Arms videos and DIY blacksmiths, the team is creating their very own take on the blacksmithing experience using everyday
materials. Visitors can expect to try their hand at either hammering steel at the team’s hot forge or shaping aluminium and copper at their cold forge.

Smart Health and Smart Homes at Maker Faire Singapore

The world of digital business calls for increasing proficiency in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM). Cognizant believes that sparking an interest in STEM education among young people is crucial to meeting the demands of an innovation economy. As part of our endeavor to help close the talent gap in STEM fields, encourage creativity and innovation, and prepare today’s youth for tomorrow’s opportunities, we have been a supporter of the Maker movement and are now a proud sponsor of Maker Faire Singapore, 2016.

 

At Maker Faire Singapore 2016, we will offer a real-time, interactive experience in next-generation digital technology such as the Internet of Things (IOT) and demonstrate how it will impact Singapore’s Smart Nation vision.

Cognizant offers IOT consulting, strategy, implementation, and operational support to help simplify the complexities of IOT and leverage it to address a wide range of social and business concerns. Our managed innovation process helps take ideas from the drawing board to prototype, and then scales the best ones rapidly with our proven global delivery model. We bring together the right blend of industry knowledge, strategy, design thinking and technology capabilities to help companies seamlessly unite their physical and virtual worlds.

 

Smart Home with Raspberry Pi

Powered by the latest technology in the field of IOT Raspberry Pi, Smart Home lets you control various home appliances with your hand phone or laptop. Our aim is to spark creativity among young minds by getting them to experience hands-on building of their own smart home using coding and Raspberry Pi console.

Smart Health

Cognizant will demonstrate how IOT is all set to transform healthcare as we know it. We will demonstrate how your private physiotherapist may soon be available at your service anytime, anywhere. Here we will leverage gaming platforms and devices such as Microsoft Kinect to monitor and correct physical movements in Physiotherapy. People can perform prescribed exercises as shown on a TV panel in the convenience of their homes. At Maker faire, you will get to experience it first-hand. We will also demonstrate other IOT devices in healthcare.

Lightsabers, healthcare solutions and IoT foosball

Intel invents at the very boundaries of technology to make amazing experiences possible today and in the future for all sectors of business, and for every person on Earth.  From powering the latest devices and the cloud you depend on, to driving policy, diversity, sustainability and education, we create value for our stockholders, customers and society.

Intel is proud to be a sponsor at Maker Faire Singapore 2016.

Maker Faire Singapore is a strong platform for Intel to showcase our commitment to the Maker movement and young developers. We hope to not only showcase how Intel can power amazing ideas into reality but reach out to potential developers, equip them with the know-how and tools to truly make anything their minds can think of. Maker Faire not only helps cultivate young minds to start dreaming, inventing and creating, but also showcases the versatility and power of Intel’s technology.

Here are some of the cool projects that you can find at the Intel space at the Faire

PD loggers

Powered by Intel® Edison, PD Loggers presents a wearable 3-sensor based system that can monitor the wearer’s gait remotely, for example from the wearer’s home, to aid doctors in determining the severity of Parkinson’s Disease (PD) of their patients without needing them to travel down to the clinic for appointments which can present inconveniences.

This system also aims to detect signs of Freezing-of-Gait (FoG), a symptom experienced by PD patients which puts them at risk of falls and injury, in order to give early warnings to the wearer so that he/she can better manage his symptoms and reduce the risk of falls and injury.

PD Loggers were the grand winners of Intel® Invent 50 2015, a competition by Intel to celebrate IoT solutions developed by tertiary students to solve real world problems.

Synapse Swarm Sense

With Intel® Edison and Intel® RealSense™ inside, this project aims to showcase benchtop robots developed as service robots to perform useful tasks for humans like surveillance or room delivery in a hotel. Using various sensor modalities and camera feed processing methods on the cloud, context relevant results are generated and utilised.

Swarm Sense was the Finalist at the Intel® Invent 50 2015, a competition by Intel® to celebrate IoT solutions developed by tertiary students to solve real world problems.

EnergieCorp

Powered by Intel® Edison, Energie Corp presents a client-centred IoT Solution that focus on energy conservation and also can help companies usher in an era of sustainable energy.

Energie Corp (formerly known as Team Green) was the 2nd Runner-up of Intel® Invent 50 2015, a competition by Intel® to celebrate IoT solutions developed by tertiary students to solve real world problems.

This solution aims to design an IoT solution for all, with its customisable, flexible and modular design structure that can be deployed at any location be it offices, homes or manufacturing plants.

The Lightsaber and Mjolnir

This demo aims to showcase Intel® Edison IoT capabilities using Intel® Edison WiFi service to interface to Lightsaber and Mjolnir’s microcontroller system.

The Lightsaber and Mjolnir will output accelerometer event data to a Intel® Edison WiFi Server and information will be displayed via laptop.

Foo Star

Developed by Windriver, this smart connected foosball table is fun for all ages. With Intel® Edison and Intel® Galileo inside, Foo Star allows IoT enabled foosball matches.

 

Projects by Nanyang Polytechnic

Water Irrigation System

This project provides an unsupervised plant watering system allowing user to keep the plant healthy while unattended over a short period of time.

This project measures the moisture level in the soil and perform automatic water irrigation if the moisture level falls below a preset threshold. The moisture level in the soil and the water irrigation schedules are logged and display on Internet of Things (IoT) platform, ThingSpeak. With the system connected to the Cloud, user can deploy it at home while leaving for short vacation without compromising the health of the plant.   This smart connected system builds upon Intel® Edison and utilizes Intel® Edison connectivity to achieve real time data logging. User is able to view the health conditions of the plant and system behavior, for example moisture level of the soil, time when plant is watered and the remaining volume of water in the reservoir, via any cloud connected devices.

Air Quality Measurement System

Powered by Intel® Edison, his project provides air quality monitoring with an alarm where a user can deploy at any location. The user can also access the air quality data through various web access platforms and receive notifications when air quality exceeds an unhealthy threshold level.

This system measures the pm2.5 level to determine the air’s dust condition and also measure the Volatile Organic Compounds (VOC) sensor output for air contaminants and Carbon Dioxide (CO2) level against a preset threshold. The sensor data is logged periodically and displayed on an Internet of Things (IoT) platform, ThingSpeak. This system can be deployed at home, the office and the factory or any indoor sites allowing the user to view the collected data from the system, for example, PM2.5 level of dusty conditions and VOC gas level via any internet connected devices.

Safe from Elevator Grip

This project serves to detect obstacles in blind spots of single and multi-beam elevator. This smart system aims to eliminate elevator accidents by providing a more sensitive detection of obstacle through minimal enhancement of the existing elevator setup.

The Detection Module comprises of an obstacle sensor and a servo motor which is attached to the elevator door to detect obstacles in blind spots.   When there is no obstruction, the lever attached to the servo will remain at vertical position, parallel to the elevator door. When an obstruction is detected, the obstacle sensor will be triggered and servo will rotate the lever by 90º,  triggering the elevator safety beam for the door to retract.  Designed as a connected system, elevator malfunction can be detected through capturing of abnormal door closing patterns which can be analysed to serve as a trigger point for preventive maintenance or servicing. This project is powered by Intel® Edison.

There is so much for young children@MFSG2016

Are you a parent coming with a child to Maker Faire Singapore? At Maker Faire, we believe that making starts very young and from the home. So what can parents and children do at Maker Faire Singapore?

At thinkspace, our community partner Ground Up Initiative will be bringing the Kampung Spirit down to Maker Faire 2016! We will be showcasing a wide variety of activities, taking you on an enlightening journey through time and its various learning techniques. These activities range from old school activities such as calligraphy and making your own medieval catapults, to modern day activities such as electronics workshops and upcycling of recycled waste materials

Just next to the Ground up initiative is the space curated by our other community partners at the Playeum. A small version of their new exhibition Hideaways, Playeum’s space will feature a bug hotel that children can build and bring home, as well as a collaborative art installation.

Drop into the dark space to join the Science Educators from the Tinkering Studio at Science Centre. Families and children will be working together to explore light and shadows using everyday items. Learn also how you can create a light box at your own home.

At Labs Central, be delighted by what parents and children from the pre school market are getting upto. Learn about how you can introduce children to Science, Tchnology, Engineering, Art and Maths through the playmaker programme and chill out in the dreamspace dome created with cardboard

At the young makers zone, catch up with some of our maker families, Rasheeda Banu and Shafeefa, Anjali and Sophia Curic, Wee Yang and Yee Chern and other families who have taken the maker mindset into the home. What projects can young children come up with, how can you, as parents and educators encourage them and create a conducive makerspace at the home to encourage the young innovators?

And then drop in at the Imagin8ors and the strawbees booths where children can construct and make to their hearts content.

For parents with young kids, especially under 12, we are in the process of developing a special workshop on 26th June 10am to 1pm. Tinker and collaborate on an arcade game, bring your game to setup a booth at the Faire for a short period. A great chance to collaborate with your youn ones and learn together. Details coming soon.

For more structured workshops, try circuit stickers or Kodu Game programming. If you would like your child to pick up a craft, drop into the craft zone or try your hands on glass mosaics

So prepare for a great rollercoaster ride, you are never too young to start Making and Tinkering at Maker Faire Singapore!