Applied Impact is a Semifinalist!
July 19th, 2019 - Applied Impact was announced as one of the semifinalist for the Chrysalix Venture Capital Tank Inspection Challenge on HeroX. Applied Impact's solution was the "Pneumatic vibration to navigate sludge" entry. Tank inspections are extremely costly, laborious, and creates a significant safety risk as they are performed manually, requiring storage tanks to be taken out-of-service, cleaned, and degassed to allow workers to enter the confined space.
Drone World Speed Record Build Team
July 26th, 2019 - Join us in creating a Nova Labs team to design, fabricate and fly a drone that will beat the existing world record and become certified by Guinness! Nova Labs gives us access to some amazing equipment such as laser cutters, CNC and CAD which lend themselves perfectly to this type of challenge. The team is free to join and open to makers of all backgrounds and experience levels. We will meeting weekly to design, fabricate and test our drone so that we can become the new world speed record holders!!
Share in Learning
We don't stop making an impact when our hardware projects end. We develop curriculum, training courses, and hackatons. Our final goal is to inspire others to take their ideas to impact.
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JMU Hackathon Video
Check out the short video when Applied Impact took JMU students to spent the first day of their spring break developing surveillance devices for a federal contractor in North Carolina. Using a Raspberry Pi, a single-board computer, along with cameras and sensors, teams from JMU and Virginia Military Institute were given 24 hours to create a prototype that could count the number of people walking past a designated area, but with a catch their device needed to be accurate enough to avoid counting the same person twice.
Watch Video Assistive Technology Hackathons
Over the course of 72 hours, teams will develop affordable solutions to specific challenges, resulting in working prototypes. Our goal is to work with partner companies to reproduce these items and make them available the world over, open source and free of charge.
JMU X-Labs Drone Class
In the spring of 2015, JMU X-Labs offered the first undergraduate drones course
in the Commonwealth of Virginia, a feat that put JMU on the map in ways never before imagined. What began
as a pilot course has surged into multiple iterations of collaborative, multidisciplinary programs and
events shared across the commonwealth.
Multidisciplinary teams of students from physics, engineering,
computer science, industrial design, writing, and other areas of study analyze and tackle real problems
using unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). Students modify drones to carry payloads including cameras and
sensors and/or to develop sensors to interact with UAVs that can be used to answer questions and solve problems.