JARED BARIBEAU
Developer
Designer
Robot Builder
Hi, I'm Jared! I'm using robots to make the world a safer, more equitable place @ Demine Robotics. I graduated from the University of Waterloo studying Systems Design Engineering class of 2018. I love learning new things, chasing adventure, and striving to make a difference.
I want to harness the incredible power of technology to move the needle on universal equal access to opportunity. Access to opportunity involves good health, quality education, legal rights, resources, and much more.
Below is a look at some of the things I've built in the past few years, or that are currently in the works. I take great pleasure in creating things - whether it be basketball playing robots, pretty website designs, apps to improve quality of life, or snowboard jumps at the local resort.
If you'd like to talk shop, or just hear a little more about one of my projects, get in touch.
Handle was built as a design project along with some of my awesome classmates last term. It's a game where you stickhanle a ball within the square on the floor,keeping it away from the moving laser.
There were two portions to the vision processing. The first is object tracking, or in this case "big orange ball tracking", demonstrated alongside my corny smile:
The second part is applying a transformation to the camera input to correct the distortion that results from an skewed angle. The camera doesn't see this square as a square:
Fear not! Drop a couple of dots on those corner coordinates and let a little bit of linear algebra do the rest!
And just like that, we're left with a true square. This now directly maps to the virtual playing area, where the real-world laser obstacle moving along the floor is mirrored by a moving circle on the screen.
The software is watching for collisions and controlling the pattern of the obstacle. The longer you survive, the higher your score!
Digital Sabbath is an ongoing campaign I'm leading to encourage everyone to take a much needed break from technology - and in turn to fight digital addiction. This was an idea that stemmed from a FaithTech meetup, and we are now part of FaithTech Labs.
Check it out at digitalsabbath.io!
Tidbits is a tool that helps you build better relationships. It does this by helping you remember the names of new friends and keep better tabs on your old friends.
This is a side project that I've long wanted to bring to life. I've through the first few iterations of designs and now I'm building it with Rails and React Native.
Smart display is an experiment in how to effectively provide dynamic and interactive content that is personalized for TD customers. It uses Bluetooth beacons and the customers' phones to determine what content should be displayed on the screen at a given time to best appeal to the customer. If they are interested in the content, they can tap the NFC enabled screen with their phone to 'capture' an interactive version of the ad.
Smart Greeting was built during my time at TD Lab.
HappyHeart, an anxiety attack tracking app was built at Hack@Brown 2016 for iOS and web, utilizing the heartrate sensor on the Microsoft Band. Our team placed in the top 10, and were awarded Best Data Visualization.
As the Director of Technology for CUTC 2016, my role was to put technology to work for conference planning, marketing, ticketing, and execution. A big piece of this was the CUTC: Imagine Website.
Connect with me on LinkedIn.
