ZenSurface Smart Desk

What if learning was easy? Our goal with ZenSurface is to create a smart desk capable of increasing a student’s ability to learn.

The desk consists of a large touch-display featuring several tools, including a Pomodoro timer, Attention Restoration Theory (ART) themed visuals, and other technologies.

Under the supervision of Professor Alexandre Gomes de Siqueira (PI) with the Computer Science and Engineering department at the University of Florida, I’ve been developing this desk since May, 2023.

Since then, I’ve

  • Designed and built an application manager which permits easy development of various applications for the desk.

  • Engineered a scalable system to handle communication between the Unity applications and several Arduinos over serial USB connections.

  • Designed a daemon to moderate Arduino LED requests from several processes in a thread-safe manner with application priority.

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