During this coronavirus pandemic, Thomas Pinto and I have been discussing how we can come up with a project that can help solve a design problem caused by the pandemic during this tough time. We have considered large and small scale ideas that we do not have to implement but can help provide potential solutions. These include:
Location-driven webapp that based on your state, can provide up to date information on local, state, and federal directives
This can be very useful because national news outlets pump out information to the public and it is very tough to find specifics for individual states.
This service can make it very personal to each user and give them the proper information for their family in their individual state.
Motor driven self pumping mechanism for standard hand sanitizers
Using raspberry pi's and simple motion sensors, create a universal mechanism to attach to a bottle and make it touch free to get hand sanitizer from an ordinary bottle of it
Promotes touch free way to get sanitizer on an ordinary bottle without using something from a bathroom and mounting that on a wall
Quarantine mobile application
Provide social distance friendly ideas to stay connected to friends while also staying far apart whether it is physical activities or virtual
Provide personal ideas to not get bored like book recommendations, TV shows, painting, workouts, etc.
Goal setting tools to help remain motivated towards a specific task while being kept at home for an extended period of time.