The Kinetic Mirror was a project I led since the Summer of 2020. The Mirror is an Interdiciplinary fusion between Robotics and Art. The basic concept behind the Mirror, is that it detects the form or pose of a person standing in front of it, and it will rotate all 100 individual mirrors to reflect back a pixelated image of the person in front. Below are a few Pattern and Camera demos.
| Processor | Raspberry Pi 4 x1 - Raspbian OS - Written using Python and OpenCV |
| Servo | TowerPro SG-5010 - 5010 x100 |
| Servo Connection Extensions | Adafruit 16-Channel PWM/Servo HAT x10 |
| Camera | Raspberry Pi Camera Module V2 x1 |
| Mirror Base | 5ft x 5ft x 1 inch Hardwood |
| Mirror | Standard Stock 4 inch mirror plates x100 |
| Mirror Cell | Lasercut and 3d printed parts. See below. x100 |
I have made a large amount of apps; sometimes as a side project to learn, or apps used to address a community problem.
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I love to teach. Teaching gives me an opportunity to spread knowlege that I have acquired through my nearly 15 years of education, and is a great way to give back to my community.
Launched Art classes
Classes for the elderly, such as origami, pebble painting, and popup cards.
Goal of aleviating isolation due to the pandemic.
6, 10-week long semesters with around 15 students each. Inspired by my AP CS class in High School.
Vice President of CS at Silicon Valley Youth
Created BSA Robotics Merit Badge program at Robotics club. Taught 4 hour long bootcamps for boy and girl scouts to help them earn their robotics merit badge.
4, 6-week long semesters (so far) with around 15 students each. Teaching the best way to learn for me, and I have built much of my ML knowlege from teaching this class.
Vice President of CS at Silicon Valley Youth
I am a certified tutor for the selective Falcon Family Peer Tutoring program at my school, where I hold office hours and tutor district high or middle school students in Math and APCS.
I was a Teachers Assistant for a 7th to 9th grade Math class at Art of Problem Solving academy. The focus of this class was on basic arithmentic, processes, and ciphers.
As a co-president for the Application Development club, I am in charge of sending newsletters and holding lectures, as well as hosting events like hackathons.
I like to write about ethics and machine learning. I have written articles about certain algorithms I've used in projects, as well as introductory ML articles, to the impact of Covid-19 on social issues, to journalling my progress building MobiTest.
Check me out at: https://medium.com/@ranashreyas
