MIT Media Lab | MLVoices: Osvy Rodriguez @MITMediaLab | Uploaded November 2020 | Updated October 2024, 16 hours ago.
Osvy Rodriguez, a UROP in the Signal Kinetics group, recounts his journey to MIT and how he began working with Signal Kinetics group head Fadel Adib on a recent project.
Osvy came to the US as a Cuban refugee, and he learned English in three to four months in order to take the SAT. He received his associate's degree in electrical engineering from Miami Dade College, then transferred to MIT, where he became very interested in the work of Adib's group at the Media Lab—specifically a project focusing on underwater to air communication technology that paves the way for wireless IoT sensors.
More information at: https://www.media.mit.edu/videos/sk-osvy-2020-11-12/
Osvy Rodriguez, a UROP in the Signal Kinetics group, recounts his journey to MIT and how he began working with Signal Kinetics group head Fadel Adib on a recent project.
Osvy came to the US as a Cuban refugee, and he learned English in three to four months in order to take the SAT. He received his associate's degree in electrical engineering from Miami Dade College, then transferred to MIT, where he became very interested in the work of Adib's group at the Media Lab—specifically a project focusing on underwater to air communication technology that paves the way for wireless IoT sensors.
More information at: https://www.media.mit.edu/videos/sk-osvy-2020-11-12/
![[Bike] Swarm](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/wUl-CHJ6DK0/hqdefault.jpg "[Bike] Swarm
As bikes navigate city streets after dark, they are often equipped with lights. The lights make the bikes visible to cars or other bikers, and the hazards of traffic less dangerous.
Imagine that as solitary bikes come together, their lights begin to pulsate at the same cadence. The bikers may not know each other, or may only be passing each other briefly, but for the moments they are together, their lights synchronize. The effect is a visually united presence, as groups of bikes illuminate themselves with a gently pulsing, collective light source.
We built this light system. We designed a synchronization protocol and algorithm, as well as physical prototypes that we fabricated and tested on our local city streets.
Our system is designed for deployment in a city, yet draws inspiration from nature.
More information at: https://www.media.mit.edu/projects/bike-swarm/overview/
Note: Video has no spoken audio. Music plays throughout.")
