Numerical and experimental trapping analysis of simple and cost-effective acoustic tweezers

Acoustic Force Spectroscopy (AFS) is a versatile tool that uses sound waves to manipulate tiny particles such as cells, bacteria, and even zebrafish embryos in microfluidic systems. This kind of acoustic tweezer is gaining increasing attention due to its high throughput capability and non-invasiveness. In addition, this device allows for...

Designing a fast low-cost anthopomorphic robotic hand

In this Thesis a fast, low-cost, anthropomorphic robotic hand with tactile feedback is designed. The hand consists of an index finger and a thumb, both of which have four degrees of freedom. All eight degrees of freedom are fully actuated using eight servomotors whose forces are transferred using tendons. The design introduces tendon routing to...

Reuse of plastic as a building product: Recycling plastic waste into a low-cost building component for internally displaced persons (IDP) camp resettlement housing in Nigeria

This report encompasses a graduation project submitted to fulfil the requirements for the title of Master of Science at the Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment, Delft University of Technology. This research was conducted to find an alternative use for waste plastic as building components, specifically for the residents of an IDP...

Redesign Disaster: Water and Energy Hub

This graduation project has the goal to improve the living conditions of rural African communities by showing them how to construct off-grid, self-sufficient, and what is most important affordable clean water, energy, and sanitation system. I believe it can be easily adapted by communities of poor regions. Those communities struggle with poor...

Bambootopia--Multi-purpose bamboo process and utilization center

Cigondewah, as a growing industrial area in Bandung, is facing with serious ecological and societal dilemma because of rapid growth of violating textile industry. Polluted water and soil makes traditional food crop farming difficult to maintain, while industry land is biting up farmland, the last precious green space left in this area. To solve...

Deployable sound-absorbing unit for open-plan offices

In this industrialized world, technology has invaded our life in such a level where behind every product a complex manufacturing process with high transportation costs being hidden. Designing a product itself is not enough anymore; the whole manufacturing procedure needs to be included in the design.<br/><br/>Especially when product design meets...

A Low-cost Tracking Solution For VR Headsets

Inaccurate and slow positional tracking are fundamental problems of low-cost VR solutions. These factors can induce motion sickness and therefore significantly deteriorate the user experience. There are already a variety of solutions available to track the position of a VR HMD, some of which can be made robust and<br/>low-latency by inexpensive...

Low-Cost Smith-Waterman Acceleration

Due to advancing technology, genetic sequencing has become cheaper over the years. This has caused the demand for computational power to grow even faster than Moore's law. To remedy this problem, we analyzed low-cost hardware solutions to parallelize the computational part of the genetic sequencing. We proposed a novel method for calculating the...