{"id":649,"date":"2015-01-26T05:35:37","date_gmt":"2015-01-26T05:35:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.discovery.wisc.edu\/projects\/?p=649"},"modified":"2015-02-16T20:20:12","modified_gmt":"2015-02-16T20:20:12","slug":"introductory-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.discovery.wisc.edu\/projects\/2015\/01\/26\/introductory-post\/","title":{"rendered":"TEB Research Introductory Post"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hello world,<\/p>\n<p>I just thought I&#8217;d introduce myself and tell you a little bit about who I am\u00a0and my research. \u00a0My name is Jason Sylvestre and I am currently a freshman studying Electrical Engineering here at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. I will be working under Professor Kevin Ponto&#8217;s supervision on a project I started last semester for his Wearable technologies class. What I am trying to build is a thermoelectric bracelet that can be used for personal body temperature regulation. \u00a0TEB (stands for &#8216;Thermoelectric bracelet&#8217;) can be thought of as a personal air conditioner that can be used to improve thermal comfort. \u00a0Research has shown that when you apply a temperature change to a local part of the body, your brain perceives it as a change in your entire\u00a0body temperature. \u00a0It is this psychological effect that I am trying to leverage with my device.<\/p>\n<p>Currently I am\u00a0in the process of building\u00a0the second prototype, but once I have a fully functional device and have optimized pulse duration and intensity, I will perform a user study to see if this device actually makes a difference in personal comfort and plan to publish the results.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What I accomplished this week<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I just moved all my equipment into\u00a0my cubicle in the basement at the Wisconsin Institute for Discovery and began to populate the rev 1.2 PCB with the SMT components. I also gathered a list of supplies needed to complete this second iteration.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Next week&#8217;s work<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Depending on how quickly Kevin can get me an oven for the soldering procedure, I am going to try to populate the rest of the board. I will also be modifying the code to make use of the hardware interrupts that the buttons are connected to. By utilizing hardware interrupts, there will hardly be any delay now in the program, which was a minor issue with revision 1.1<\/p>\n<p>I look forward to a great semester of research. Thanks<\/p>\n<p>Jason Sylvestre<\/p>\n<p>Below is an image of prototype 1.1<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovery.wisc.edu\/projects\/files\/2015\/01\/20141210_181231.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-724\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovery.wisc.edu\/projects\/files\/2015\/01\/20141210_181231-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"20141210_181231\" width=\"359\" height=\"476\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hello world, I just thought I&#8217;d introduce myself and tell you a little bit about who I am\u00a0and my research. \u00a0My name is Jason Sylvestre and I am currently a freshman studying Electrical Engineering here at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.discovery.wisc.edu\/projects\/2015\/01\/26\/introductory-post\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":101,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[33],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.discovery.wisc.edu\/projects\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/649"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.discovery.wisc.edu\/projects\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.discovery.wisc.edu\/projects\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.discovery.wisc.edu\/projects\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/101"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.discovery.wisc.edu\/projects\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=649"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.discovery.wisc.edu\/projects\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/649\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":725,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.discovery.wisc.edu\/projects\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/649\/revisions\/725"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.discovery.wisc.edu\/projects\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.discovery.wisc.edu\/projects\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.discovery.wisc.edu\/projects\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}