The final pitch presentation for Borealis, an intelligent ambient lighting system developed by a collaboration amongst students from Stanford University, UNAM, and the Volkswagen Electronics Research Lab.

2. Design and build a concept that
virtually recreates the feeling of open-
top motoring inside a fixed-roof
vehicle.
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3. Mechanical Mechatronics
MECHANICAL
Andrew Chang
Jason Reid
Fabrication Programming
DESIGNERS
Gladis Arroyo
Heikki Juvonen
Design Communication
Marco Lobato
Mechanical Mechatronics
MECHATRONIC
S
Martin Garcia
Tomas Alvarez
Fabrication Programming
Design Communication
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7. Current Passive Biased
Solution
Active/ Address All
Opportunities Adaptive Senses
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8. Active/ Address All
Opportunities Adaptive Senses
Product Changes Integrates
Dynamically
Attributes Experiences
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9. Virtually recreate the multi-sensory
experience found in convertibles . . .
. . . in the interior of the car
via peripheral visual stimuli.
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11. +
camera input
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21. •Low fidelity is desirable
•Relatively low power
•Bright
•Durable
•Readily available technology
•RGB levels (control color
easily)
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22. 63 LEDs slow 315 controllable
252 LEDs for high
resolution
resolution
316 pixels
1 1234567
14
1
36 inch
18
51 inch Back
Front
resolution of LED board
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23. •DMX-512
•Concert and theater lighting
•Use standard 5-pin XLR cables
(microphone)
•Enttec USB DMX Controller
•512 channels*2 Controllers=1024
Channels
•1024/3=341 Controllable RGB LEDs
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25. map light

26. map light
map light

27. temperature control
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28. temperature control
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29. warning
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