Review of problems:
- Social
- How to deal with isolation?
- Whats the plan next?
- Where are the leaders?
- Where is the nearest COVID-19 test center?
- How to know what is truth and what’s a rumor?
- Community
- How can i contribute to the community by being at home?
- Who’s caring for the elderly?
- Who’s caring for the homeless and family-less people?
- Is there a food-bank where i can contribute?
- Technical
- Lack of good reusable face-masks
- Lack of sufficient protective clothing for healthcare professionals
- Is there a disinfectant for general home use? Without chemicals?
- Medical
- Where is the cure?
- How can we increase testing? What’s the bottleneck?
- How can i improve my immunity so that i could be resilient to complications if I get infected?
- Economy and future
- How will the economy behave next?
- How can i work from home and still earn?
- I am in the manufacturing sector, there cant be ‘work-from’home’option!! What can i do?
- I am not digital-literate. What can i do to earn?
Focus of Maker Culture class
For completion of course, one needs to note the following:
- Making hardware is NOT mandatory.
- Making an online documentation of problems and solutions is mandatory. All evaluations will be based on single blog which contains:
- CA1 essay as a separate blog post.
- CA2 blog posts on skills learnt and its story.
- CA3 blog post.
What is CA3?
Make a blog-post in your regular blog answering the following questions. You can break the following into multiple blog posts. The total marks for CA3 is 20!!!
- Study a specific problem due to COVID-19 outbreak: (4 marks)
- Why this problem has appeared?
- What’s the social angle to its origin and possible solution?
- What is the impact of the problem?
- Study existing solutions to the problem: (4 marks)
- Conventional solutions used before the outbreak.
- New ideas/innovations in response to the outbreak.
- Limitations of all these solutions. Example:
- Not customized for Indian use, or for use in my city.
- Too costly.
- Still in research stage, not yet commercialized.
- Too unreliable for common use.
- No service in my city.
- Your personal take on the problem: (8 marks total)
- Technically, what device you can imagine can solve the problem.
- What is the nearest existing design that you like and would base your innovative solution on?
- Your design (5 marks!):
- Specify the challenges you would like your design to ultimately meet – the ultimate design criteria!
- Make hand sketch to explain the concept of your design.
- Make a TinkerCAD model of how the device will look.
- If your design has electronics in it, describe how the electronics will help.
- List skills and materials required for your design. Also called the BOM (Bill of Materials).
- How will you make it? What tools will you use, what skills you will need to learn.
- Pitch your idea in the form of a ppt presentation (4 marks).
- Why you want to solve this problem?
- Who would you like to solve it for?
- What is the problem with existing machines/ideas?
- What challenges your design can address?
- Explain your design briefly?
- Can you make a plan of making it?
What problems?
- A reusable germicidal face-mask – with UV treatment of inhaled and exhaled air.
- A disinfectant box that can UV disinfect any object like clothing, shoes, phone, money, etc.
- An automatic hand wash unit to be placed in public places.