Each year the Co-Lab funds a variety of technology projects and explorations through our grant program. Here's a list of what students are working on.

Current Co-Lab Projects

Bluetooth Bike Shifter

A universal electronic bike shifting system with Bluetooth and iOS components

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Detachable Roller Skates

A mechanism for attaching roller skates to the bottom of your shoes!

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Solar Powered Reverse Osmosis Water Filter

This project aims to develop a small water filter that uses reverse osmosis and UV water treatment and is powered with solar energy.

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Previous Co-Lab Projects

Technify

Build a virtual platform that connects Duke students with NGOs and social enterprises in Southeast Asia

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Multi-material 3D printed orthotics for pediatric GSD patients

Children with glycogen-storage disorders need orthotics quickly to help them live happy and healthy lives. We're here to help make that possible in just one trip to Durham.

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Interface Space

Two Duke students who are building a high altitude balloon that will capture photos of the curvature of the earth and the black of space.

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Time Through Light

An aluminum and wood world map that displays the movement of the sun's light across the earth with LEDS

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Sensor Suite

An array of sensors to detect analog signals from the world to learn about the way a space works.

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NeuroMusic

Analyzing real-time brain signals to model personalized music tastes and using these to generate new, personalized music.

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MesnAR

Startup company focused on combining augmented reality software with 3D printing technology to develop static, and ultimately dynamic and interactive, pre-operative visualization models.

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Helios

A wifi controlled smart LED, with IFTTT and Blynk.io integration.

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Duke Combat Robotics Team

Student-run team with a love for building battlebots

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3D Printing in Brachytherapy: Modular Phantoms as Teaching Tools

3D printing modular phantoms of patient anatomy for training purposes.

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JoJob

JoJob aims to facilitate the bookkeeping and logistics management process for groups of people sharing storage units.

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DeltaBand

The Delta Band is a strength training wearable tailored to athletes and trainers.

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EV360: An Electric Monowheel

Our long-term goal is to set a land-speed for fastest single-wheeled vehicle.

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Jellyfish-Bot

The goal of this project is to develop an interactive, LED-lit, robotic jellyfish.

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Voltabase

Voltabase is is a multirotor drone system that is designed to solve drone's battery problems.

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Stanners-Orrico 3D Printed Garments

By using 3D printers and cutting-edge elastic filament materials, they are seeking to innovate versatile 3D printed textiles.

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FosterHomeFinder

The goal of this project is to create and develop an application that allows foster care caseworkers to quickly find a home for a child- with the objective of allowing the child to stay in the same school

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Anax

A wearable, bluetooth inertial sensor for use in joint monitoring applications.

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The DukeHand Project

Building a 3d-printed, myoelectrically controlled hand.

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Multi-scale Exploration in Virtual Reality

A VR application exploring objects of vastly differing sizes.

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Internal Positioning System

Improving navigation using pinpointed position information.

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Duke Studies

A simple site for planning your academic path.

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Majors Wizard

A simple site for planning your academic path.

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FoodPoints+

Web app for analyzing food points spending.

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FreeSpace

FreeSpace allows students to quickly and easily find open study spaces anywhere on campus.

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Teddi

Teddi is a mobile app allowing for recordings on the app to be played through a remote physical interface.

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Duke Exchange

Buy and sell new/used clothing, books, furniture, accessories, and other miscellaneous items.

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DevilPrint

An ePrint client for iOS, Android, and mobile web.

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BioSand Filter

Using 3d-printed parts to build an inexpensive water filter.

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3D E-Print

A scalable, wireless 3d-printing network at Duke.

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Fix My Campus App

Improving the Fix My Campus experience by adding a mobile app and administrative site.

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SMSmart

Using SMS texting as data source for your favorite apps.

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Prism Robotics

A Quadbot system capable of sustainable existence in a remote region without human intervention.

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Multi Purpose Field Chemical Spectrometer

A portable chemical analyzer for law enforcement purposes.

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BioMetrix

A smarter way to run, using hardware and software to detect and improve athletes' form.

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GTHC: Game Tenting Help Center

A mobile app for K-Ville logistics.

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Strauss1

Hard hat-mounted sensory bands.

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Duke Exchange

App to facilitate the textbook trading among students.

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Blue Devil in Space

How high can the Blue Devil go?

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Brainbuild

Brainbuild automates nutrition planning for collegiate and professional athletes

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Map It

We make it easier for researchers to extract useful information from academic databases.

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Medicom

Secure, peer to peer data transfer for medical IT.

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Bus Stop Kiosk

Physical kiosk to display bus tracking information.

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Project Guardian

Drone Fleet Management software and hardware.

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Walla (formerly Genie)

A mobile app that allows users in the same location to meet up based on matching help requests.

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Ulla

Providing pertinent information to bus stop riders.

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Wheeshare

An app to promote sharing among Duke students.

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Echo

Echo connects people using the power of the human voice.

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CampusWallet

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IamRobot

The Interactive Autonomous Mobile Robot (IamRobot) is a portable robotic platform that can navigate indoors.

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Tech Guru (formerly Hardware Guru)

Intuitive, instant and detailed computer benchmarking service.

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eNABLE

We make hands for people who need them.

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Lifter

Device for transfering patients with inflatables.

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Akin

A productive space to foster open, honest communication and understanding.

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