It's kind of crazy that fellows is over in just a month. This Thursday through Sunday, I visited MIT for a campus preview weekend, where I had many opportunities to learn about bioengineering and biotechnology research going on. A highlight in terms of learning more about my major was when I talked with a (course 20 major) student about bioengineering applications to neuroscience. She described a procedure where neurons can be stimulated with light to fire.
In terms of my project, I handed the model off to Mrs. Carsley and this week I will get it back, know what materials to get, and FINALLY order them. I've met with Toomey (also a fellow) to discuss the logistics of my LED light board and decided that it would be best if I sadder the LED's together behind the model instead of trying to put an Arduino board directly there behind it. This next and final month holds a lot of work for me finalizing the project, so I hope to do more than just one update.
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Over spring break, I finished the clay model of the two neurons. So as the physical part of my project was on hold for a little bit, I had some time to do more reading on Arduino. I figured out that. Also I ran into a slight issue because there was not enough storage on my computer to run the Arduino program, so I had to wait to get home from vacation to use the family computer to test some things out. I still need some advice about how to integrate the Arduino with the sculpture and how to run different sequences, but there are two people that I have reached out to, (who also happen to be fellows, Jeffrey and Toomey), that I think may be able to help me with this given their knowledge in programming, robotics, and Arduino. Below I've included a photo of me with the final block of clay I used to finish the two neurons, and Nia Savana, who helped me.
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