The Musical Fun Chair reacts to its user's movements and weight positioning by playing musical tunes. Equipped with 13 switches and capable of playing 4 different instruments, the chair gives children a fun incentive to exercise upright posture and mobility of the extremities. The ability to maintain an upright posture is important for feeding and speech, as well as for social reasons, such as making eye contact while the training of the extremities serves as precursors to ambulation and hand function.
While each body group, head, arms, feet and trunk trigger different instrument, movements can also be combined to provide a tool for musical expression. Thus, the chair targets a wide ranged audience, allowing children with limited motor skills to focus on small movement, while children with a wider range of motor skill can take advantage of the full musical scope of the chair.
Tell-a-Tale-Train is a train set that revolves around a story. The story is read out loud and key points during the narration, kids will need to assist the train by placing objects on its cars or performing other tasks to keep the story moving. The prototype is based on the story of The Little Engine That Could.
BrightStor SAN Manager is a product that Information Technology managers user to manage their Storage Area Networks (SANs). I worked on the Zone Manager component that helped manage security of the devices connected to the SAN, using C/C++ and vendor APIs.