Maker Meetup #11: Drexel Maker All-Stars (rescheduled from March)

Name: Maker Meetup #11: Drexel Maker All-Stars (rescheduled from March)
Start: 2017-05-09T17:00:00-04:00
End: 2017-05-09T20:30:00-04:00
Location: Quorum at the Science Center

Hosted By

Marvin W. and Erica M.

Maker Meetup #11: Drexel Maker All-Stars (rescheduled from March)

Details

For our 11th Meetup, we're pleased to feature some great student (and recent alumni) teams from Drexel University.

The participating entrepreneurs include an engineer who served as a sniper in the US army when he deployed to Iraq, as well as a maker who immigrated from Egypt.

The presenting companies will be: MANTA (Multi-purpose Autonomous Navigator & Trash Annihilator), Ballistic Curtain Cordon Systems, Tern Water (http://www.ternwater.com/) and the Drexel Hyperloop Team (http://drexelhyperloopteam.com/blog.html). This program was originally scheduled for March, but was cancelled due to the snow emergency.

The program will be moderated by Chuck Sacco, Director of the Baiada Institute (http://drexel.edu/baiada/).

The program begins at 5:00 with a one and a half hour, table-top Showcase of these and other great Drexel teams, including the Drexel Center for Functional Fabrics (http://drexel.edu/excite/discovery/cff/), Annee London (http://www.anneelondon.com/) and the Human Augmentation (HuAu) venture. BucknBear Knives (https://bucknbearknives.com/) will also be showing.

Special thanks to Daniel Christie (of the Center for Functional Fabrics) for curating this evening's program.

Presentations will start PROMPTLY at 6:30.

We will also be awarding door prizes, including a $200 Canary All-In-One Home Security System (https://canary.is/canary/?gclid=Cj0KEQjwhvbABRDOp4rahNjh-tMBEiQA0QgTGn_5jJYKDwrpLuWkxY0CLjPO4NfsYjwXTCBUGdkyoJYaAo2S8P8HAQ). The prize winners will be selected at random from among the list of those who RSVP for this Meetup. Of course, you must be present to actually win, though there is no charge to attend.

During the evening, attendees will be given the opportunity to 'shout-out' their networking interests and to opine on how to make Philadelphia a better place for Makers to prosper.

• Our major sponsor is Arrow Electronics (https://www.arrow.com/en/products?wm_g_phyloc=9007272&wm_g_intloc=&gclid=CjwKEAjwudW9BRDcrd30kovf8GkSJAB3hTxFcJmWMGvq7IMP8-PPJdgM8ivf3d_BG1_faDW6gTSBEhoCtsHw_wcB&utm_source=google&utm_medium=cpc&utm_term=arrow+electronics&utm_campaign=us+-+brand+-+core) - underwriting the space and the food. Other regular sponsors include NextFab (http://www.nextfab.com/), Canary (https://canary.is/canary/?gclid=Cj0KEQjwhvbABRDOp4rahNjh-tMBEiQA0QgTGn_5jJYKDwrpLuWkxY0CLjPO4NfsYjwXTCBUGdkyoJYaAo2S8P8HAQ) and Duane Morris (http://www.duanemorris.com/), while the non-profit Merchants Fund (http://www.merchantsfund.org/) is generously donating its services to administer our finances. DVIRC (http://www.dvirc.org/)will be bringing the snacks.

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Ballistic Curtain Cordon Systems

Active shooter scenarios in a school or public place are an ever looming threat worldwide. When a shooter enters a building, occupants near the shooter have little chance of escape. The shootings at Sandy Hook, Virginia Tech, Pulse Nightclub, the Bataclan theater in Paris, and most recently the Ft Lauderdale airport showcase the carnage associated with these hastily executed attacks.

A senior design team at Drexel University is working to create a solution for this problem, in the form of a ceiling-mounted, concealable, roll-able curtain that is designed to interrupt a shooter’s ability to inflict mass causalities. The Ballistic Curtain Cordon System (BCCS) is being developed as a system that can be installed into any existing building, and upon activating, unroll from the ceiling to provide a bullet proof curtain that converts open areas into areas of staggered cover. When strategically mounted into key locations of the building, such as hallways and room corners, the system of bullet proof curtains will afford building occupants the ability to escape the danger zone under the cover of the protective curtains.

Daniel Navin, mechanical engineering senior, served as a sniper in the US army where he deployed to Iraq. His first hand knowledge of rifle ballistics contributed greatly to the development of a system capable of stopping rifle rounds that are commonly used in mass shootings. Prior to his military exploits, Daniel received a degree in marine biology, and worked in Papua New Guinea where he started a company exporting sustainably collected aquarium fish to buyers around the globe.

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Manta Technologies

The patent pending MANTA (Multipurpose Aquatic Navigator & Trash Annihilator) is an autonomous watercraft vessel that collects marine debris from the water’s surface. The vessel traverses a targeted region utilizing geolocation for boundaries. The system works autonomously, utilizing camera vision and onboard sensors, to go about its optimal trajectory and capture all debris in the assigned region. The MANTA remediates polluted aquatic environments by capturing rising marine debris trash from below the water's surface and funnels it channeling the trash towards the center of the vessel where a conveyor belt system deposits the debris brings the trash from the water into an onboard debris receptacle bin. The MANTA operates on electric power and will automatically go back to shore if the batteries are low or the vessel needs to drop off debris. The scaled MANTA prototype is currently being built and is scheduled to be complete at the end of March. In addition to remedying water pollution, the vessel can be adapted to provide additional positive industrial, commercial, educational, and recreational impacts to the local community.

Daniel Diazdelcastillo is currently a senior Mechanical Engineering student at Drexel University and is currently the lead for the MANTA and Drexel Hyperloop Pod 2 projects. Being from Drexel, he participated in the coop program and worked at Hyperloop One and Naval Research Laboratory twice working on quadrupeds and satellites. Daniel also worked at NASA, a start up organization and was involved in many other projects. He currently holds 3 patents and will continue to invent, design and create products that have a profound impact to the world.

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Drexel Hyperloop

The Hyperloop concept is a new 5th mode of transportation proposed by Elon Musk. The Hyperloop concept is a levitating pod that travels in a low vacuum tube, propelled by linear induction ultimately achieving speeds of up to 760 mph, allowing to travel from San Francisco to L.A. in 30 min instead of 4 hours by car. To promote this idea and get more people involved in his vision, Elon’s SpaceX decided to host an annual Hyperloop pod competition where student teams compete with their designed and built pod to race in the 1.25 km vacuum tube located at SpaceX HQ in Hawthorne CA.

Of the 1,200 international teams that applied during the initial call for team proposals in June 2015, Drexel University’s first ever Hyperloop team made it into the top 34 teams that were invited to attend competition weekend on January 29th 2016. This was an effort that started with over 90 students in 2016 and ended with 15 people finalizing the pod’s structure, which secured the team’s spot as an exhibition team during the competition at SpaceX.

Given the overwhelming response the competition had, a second competition will be carried out this summer, in which Drexel will again participate with a second Hyperloop team. The first competition was about proof-of-concept, however this second time around the goal is to go as fast as possible.

Presenting on behalf of the Drexel Hyperloop team will be Ahram Joshua Yoon (Team President), Frederick Wachter (Team Manager) and Nestor Castaneda (Head of Structures).

Tern Water

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The Smart Faucet provides users with high quality water purification and information about their home water system. We are providing users with immediate information about how efficiently they are using their water, the longevity of their filter life, and how much water is consumed daily. Our filters have been designed to ensure high quality water purification through innovative carbon shells and particles. We have taken great steps to ensure that our filters remove hazardous contaminates such as lead, chlorine, and mercury.

Mo Zerban was born in Egypt, raised in England and now studying in the US. He dreams of a day in which the entire world could operate more efficiently, and with an infrastructure that we can trust as well as rely on. During high school he was able to research the possibility of producing bio-fuel with higher rates than the current bio-fuel plants, and designed a bio-digester for household usage with a more efficient protocol. At Drexel, he researched and designed different sustainable energy sources and interned at the Philadelphia water department as well as Exelon Utilities. He then founded Tern Water, a company that envisions a day in which simple products, and convenient services can help provide you with smart, sustainable and healthy water at all times.

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Chuck Sacco, Moderator

The Charles D. Close School of Entrepreneurship at Drexel University believes that entrepreneurship is not just a technical process of launching new companies. Rather, it is a set of personal and professional skills that foster the pursuit of innovation in business, personal and career contexts. Students from every college and school at Drexel are able to connect through the Close School to curricular, extracurricular and experiential programs that support entrepreneurial efforts. The Close School includes the Baiada Institute for Entrepreneurship that serves as Drexel’s startup incubator for students and recent graduates.

Chuck Sacco is a technology entrepreneur, educator, advisor and public speaker. His career includes a track-record of launching and growing businesses in the fields of enterprise software, business process management and mobile apps. In addition to his roles at Drexel, Chuck is President of Mobile Monday Mid-Atlantic, is an advisory board member at the Network for Teaching Entrepreneurship Philadelphia, is a founding member of the Philadelphia Regional Entrepreneurship Education Consortium and is a member of the City of Philadelphia's Startup Advisory Group. He is an advisor to numerous entrepreneurs and their companies. Chuck has a B.S. in Information Systems from St. Joseph’s University and M.B.A. in Technology Management from Drexel University.

Organizations that have presented, sponsored or shown at our Meetup to date, include the following:

Annee London (http://www.anneelondon.com/)

Arrow Electronics (https://www.arrow.com/?gclid=Cj0KEQiAnvfDBRCXrabLl6-6t-0BEiQAW4SRUANMWH2clSGWVkgeQ7a_4CHGFCxSOAJwA8sw-OMTah4aAnwv8P8HAQ)

Baiada Institute (http://drexel.edu/baiada/)

Ballistic Curtain Cordon Systems

Basil Leaf Technologies (http://www.basilleaftech.com/) (Tricorder X-Prize winner)

Biobots (https://www.biobots.io/)

Biomeme (http://biomeme.com/)

Biorealize (http://www.biorealize.com/#microbial-design-studio)

BOLT.io (http://bolt.io/)

Bon Bouton by Flextrapower (http://bonbouton.co/index.html)

Bright Idea (http://brightidea.io/)