Personal electric vehicles, or PEVs, help individuals navigate short to mid distance commutes in environments that lack effective public transportation solutions. This is known as the “Last Mile” problem. A particular solution, electric skateboards, are highly energy efficient due to their size but lack auxiliary features for safety and user-convenience connected to the same battery supply. Plus, almost all conventional electric boards come with proprietary software and hardware designs, meaning that modifying or improving upon their logic is extremely difficult if not impossible. Therefore, our group aims to prototype an improved, open-source electric skateboard design to determine the feasibility of our ideas.

Personal electric vehicles, or PEVs, help individuals navigate short to mid distance commutes in environments that lack effective public transportation solutions. This is known as the “Last Mile” problem. A particular solution, electric skateboards, are highly energy efficient due to their size but lack auxiliary features for safety and user-convenience connected to the same battery supply. Plus, almost all conventional electric boards come with proprietary software and hardware designs, meaning that modifying or improving upon their logic is extremely difficult if not impossible. Therefore, our group aims to prototype an improved, open-source electric skateboard design to determine the feasibility of our ideas.

For the purpose of exploring alternative uses for Rolplay’s image processing technology, I have developed a scavenger hunt application that utilizes object detection technology. This concept has been chosen out of three different application concepts that have been created during the first semester of the project. The application runs on Android devices and is written in Java. This application contains a camera display window and a button that the user may press to open the list of items. The list will display each item in the list and whether it has been detected from the camera stream. In addition, the list has a refresh button that will generate a new list of items after it is pressed. This is to allow users to either continue searching for items after every item in the current list has been found. or create a new list entirely if they wish to start over. The application will also detect low light status and display a message prompting the user to turn on their flashlight if low light is detected. During the development process, additional modifications have been made according to feedback from users that have tested the app.