Wifi Utility Trike

Manual labor and transportation present heavy energy costs in today's society that need to be addressed. Enter IoT

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HuskieHack 2016 by Vaughn, Cale, Kristena, and Jordan

Our project is an extremely technically advanced hardware-IoT hybrid. A wifi-enabled, blue-illuminated utility tricycle is controlled via simple web interface and is modular to accept additional features and sensors. The web interface polls the device to gather its sensor data, and this is available publicly (hosted on AWS! Waiting for DNS propogation for domain name [trikebot.com])on the web to anyone who is granted access.

A similar wifi-enabled remote control with physical I/O was heavily developed but sadly did not make the cut for the final submission.

The motivation behind this project was to take advantage of the high speed and widely available internet connectivity found in many campus buildings and businesses alike. RF control has a very short range indoors compared to outdoors, while a single wireless TCP/IP network can span hundreds of yards with the many WAP's seen every 50-100 ft. in many cases.

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University of Wisconsin-Madison

Vaughn: Soldering and Microcontroller Programming

Cale: Robot navigation and mechanical construction

Northern Illinois University

Jordan: Back-end instantiation and API Guru

Kristen: Front-end beautification

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