The Computer Petting Zoo Sponsored by Golisano College of Computing and Information Science
This booth lets kids interact with small simple computers. Different demonstrations show: interactive sound creation, light display, and computer control. With these inexpensive computers, Kids can create their own interactive toys. Some kids use these to make cool costumes for cosplay, make their own games, create robots for watering their plants or controlling cameras, or even make their own computer vision systems. The field of Computer Science that read sensors and makes motors move is called physical computing. Microcomputers, like Arduinos and Raspberry Pi computers, are so small they can be sewn into clothing to create wearable computers. These make fun costumes, fashion statements, and nerd-gear. Some sensors monitor your stress level! Come experience these sight and sound demonstrations. Every year something is different! The Computer Petting Zoo has not been shown at RIT since April of 2019, four years ago.
Children laughing while pushing buttons on The Computer Petting Zoo.
She sees the light! Arduino Computers are used to make costumes. Here a young visitor sees Dr. Kinsman's shirt light up. There is an Arduino under the white shirt.
A guest demonstrates that an infrared remote shows up on an infrared camera.
A guest at the Computer Petting Zoo plays with an infrared remote control. Here he bounces the light off of his chin, and it shows up.
Volunteers at The Computer Petting Zoo, circa 2019, before the pandemic.
Topics
Exhibitor
Thomas Kinsman
Hannah Hlotyak
Hardik Dinesh tanna
Shandon Mith
Shreya Sakpal
Vamsee Sonti
Anikhet Mulky
James Spann
Kaustubh Shetty
Lincoln Mercuro
Manasa Deshpande
Vismay Chaudhari
Adrian Cliteur
Jack Doyle
Jd Rears
John Mihal
Meenu Gigi
Rutvi Bheda
Vaishnavi Patil
Vidit Kothari
Zubin Tobias
Garret Arcoraci
Atharv Tamhane
Jolie Weber
Jonathan Meyers
Ramprasad kokkula kokkula
Swetna Annette Tribhuvan
Aditya Tirmanwar
Daniel Bliss
Gregory Ojiem
Nate Appleby
np8473
Cassidy Tierney
Jaron Cummings
kara kolodinsky
Logan Wong
njs5325
Chinmay Kulkarni
Shivam Parashar
Shounak Desai
Matthias Fendt
Srivenkatesh Nair
Aditya Tirakannavar
David Millard
Lily Ready
RAUNAQ BEDI
Aashka Desai
Abhinav Menon
Advisor(s)
Thomas B. Kinsman, Ph.D.
Organization
Dr. Thomas B. Kinsman is a Senior Lecturer in the Computer Science Department. He has a large collection of interactive computer projects that let students interact with small computers. These include: Raspberry Pi computers, and Arduino Micro-Controlle
Thank you to all of our sponsors!
