EcoTech

Approach 3 – TannerM

Again there’s a problem with the pictures, but picture the campus’s mall trees with black bags covering their base with white crosses in front of them to act as a grave. Update: In moving forward with this project I’ve decided to add a new element […]

Intent 3 TannerM

It won’t let me upload new images, so just picture that there’s an image of the trees from the campus’s mall is here.   Concept: The number of trees being wasted by unused papers in the library, would equal the number of dead trees one […]

RESPONSE 3 – CAMB, PETERB, MITCHF, EVANL

Project Title: Smartphone users “go gray” to curb addiction Creator/artists: Katherine Martinko Date: January 29th, 2018     Brief Description: Smartphones are being looked at intently, as more and more people are realizing the addictiveness of these devices. The foundation of this project is based […]

Response 3 (Alexa Enabled Smart Homes)- Taylor Pullen

What are the key questions/issues the project is addressing? (i.e. concept) The article brings up that all the smart home technologies may only be setting us back instead of helping us advance, and is only promoting laziness and poor usage of electricity. Why are these […]

EcoTech Approach – IanD (Group AustinT and IanH)

Walking can be such a drag, especially when you’re pressed for time. For busy college students, walking from class to class can be quite the hassle. If you’re a commuter and your class is across campus, it usually makes sense to hop back in your […]

EcoTech Intent – IanD (Group AustinT and IanH)

Title: ReCycle In an attempt to promote green alternatives to motorized vehicles, we will create swipe access system for public bikes paired with an app that displays bike availability. Walking can be such a drag, especially when you’re pressed for time. For busy college students, […]

Echotech Approach-MarcD

Photosynthesis *the above link leads you to the Adobe Spark page Title:  PhotoSynthesis; Air Reconditioning Co. of UMaine Images: https://spark.adobe.com/page/Hfl1xPbxRUdnT/   Summary/Abstract:  A homepage for a company that allows UMaine students and faculty to rent plants to be delivered.  These plants can purify the air in their […]

Ecotech Approach – AlexM

Ecotech Approach – AlexM

Community-based art projects created from trash as a way to attempt to clean our streets as a group together rather than as individuals.   (additional images are not uploading, returning an HTTP error)   Background: In my hometown of Belfast, Maine, everywhere you walk in the […]

Ecotech Intent – AlexM

Ecotech Intent – AlexM

Community-based art projects created from trash as a way to attempt to clean our streets as a group together rather than as individuals.   In my hometown of Belfast, Maine, everywhere you walk in the downtown area you are sure to encounter art on the […]

Final Project

Kaleb Final Twine Story So this is just a run off of what my final project is based on. My twine that I just posted is a interactive, “wordy” simulator that gives you an idea of how we use and treat plastic on a daily […]

Intent 3

Intent 3

  I think it would be a good idea to write facts in the walls of UMO. Such as things that are hurting our forest things that people could do to save the forest or to make healthier decisions for our community and them selves. […]

EcoApproach – CamB, MattC

            BACKGROUND In today’s world we humans are trying to find ways to save in any aspect of life, whether it is money, food, water, electricity, heat, and even our planet. This is how we survive on Earth in today’s […]

EcoTechApproach – EvanL

EcoTechApproach – EvanL

“Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Represtives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the tracts of land, easements, and other real estates here to fore known as the Sieur de Monts, situated on Mount Desert IsIand In National […]

EcoApproach_Matthew Carlson, Cam B

EcoApproach_Matthew Carlson, Cam B

            BACKGROUND In today’s world we humans are trying to find ways to save in any aspect of life, whether it is money, food, water, electricity, heat, and even our planet. This is how we survive on Earth in today’s […]

Intent 3 – Jack L, Tyler R, Tate Y

The App: https://xd.adobe.com/view/386bcaf6-3cdf-4032-64ab-f02bdfbebd2c-4e5a/ Summary In partnership with The Maine Sustainable Agriculture Society, we plan to design the user-interface for an application that farmers could use to monitor and control greenhouse conditions to better the efficiency of their year-round food production systems. Background Farmers (particularly small scale) […]

Approach 3 – Jack L, Tyler R, Tate Y

The App: https://xd.adobe.com/view/386bcaf6-3cdf-4032-64ab-f02bdfbebd2c-4e5a/ Summary In partnership with The Maine Sustainable Agriculture Society, we plan to design the user-interface for an application that farmers could use to monitor and control greenhouse conditions to better the efficiency of their year-round food production systems. Background Farmers (particularly small scale) […]

Approach3_ElizabethD

Approach3_ElizabethD

BACKGROUND I wanted to create an app that allows users to share their tips and ideas with one another on how to reduce their environmental impact. DESCRIPTION This app will make you sign in so that you have a profile associated with your posts.  User […]

Intent3_ElizabethD

Intent3_ElizabethD

ABSTRACT I want to create an app that allows users to share their ideas and tips on how to minimize their environmental impact. DESCRIPTION This app will let users create posts that can be tagged so that they can search for keywords or categories.  Each […]

Approach 3 – BruceW

Play “Making it Big”, a live action video game that explores the relationship between big business and the environment.

Ecotech – LiwenC

Ecotech – LiwenC

Echotech Main Idea: A huge ongoing issue people are dealing with for a long time now is pesticides. With many health related problems that occurs alongside the environmental damage. In this project I will be focusing on blueberries, a main part of farming in Maine. […]

Approach 3_TylerR, TateY, JackL

Approach 3_TylerR, TateY, JackL

Summary In partnership with The Maine Sustainable Agriculture Society, we plan to design the user-interface for an application that farmers could use to monitor and control greenhouse conditions to better the efficiency of their year-round food production systems.   ADD IMAGES WITH “ADD MEDIA” BUTTON […]

Intent 3_TylerR, TateY, JackL

Intent 3_TylerR, TateY, JackL

Summary In partnership with The Maine Sustainable Agriculture Society, we plan to design the user-interface for an application that farmers could use to monitor and control greenhouse conditions to better the efficiency of their year-round food production systems. Images: Using Adobe Xd – sign in […]

EcoTech Approach – Pullen

Many kids are all too comfortable drinking tap water from their houses. But do they really know what’s in their water? I plan to test the water at the 3 main apartment complexes in Orono, the tap water at UMaine, and compare it to different […]

Intent 3- Matt Carlson, Cam B

Intent 3- Matt Carlson, Cam B

Thermal Seating Theater Summary: We want to create a movie theater that uses thermal heat from people’s body warmth that are watching a movie to power the whole place. This would make the prices of a movie ticket drop drastically because the theater doesn’t have to […]

EcoTech Intent – Pullen

EcoTech Intent – Pullen

Many kids are all too comfortable drinking tap water from their houses. But do they really know what’s in their water? I plan to test the water at the 3 main apartment complexes in Orono, the tap water at UMaine, and compare it to different […]

EcoTech Approach – KeeganD

For this project, I’ve developed a framework for a system that both monitors, aids in, and provides rewards for corporate clients looking to reduce their carbon footprint and overall achieve a more environmentally friendly business model. This idea is a broad one, and it could […]

Approach 3– Drake P, Loren H

Approach 3– Drake P, Loren H

Abstract: We would like to make a project that uses the cardboard boxes that are discarded at the postal center to make planters to start a movement on campus encouraging people to grow their own vegetables and herbs, as well as crops that encourage bee populations. […]

Response 3– Drake P, Loren H, Megan C

RESPONSE 3 Click here to see our spark page presentation about 3D printing glass QUOTES: Megan’s Quotes: “Drawing on Thomas Jefferson, Aldo Leopold, and Bill McDonough, I suggest that that compass read: ‘No generation has any right whatsoever to alter the biogeochemical cycles of Earth […]

Approach 3 – AndrewG

Background: Caring for plants can often be difficult, they can die from lack of water, overwatering, too much sun exposure, not enough sun, the list goes on. I want to make an automated plant pot. Explanation: I will use an Arduino, LEDs, a small water […]