Sabit Ekin, Wireless, AI, Education

Outreach

Hands-on wireless technology for K-12 students, rural communities, and undergraduates.

DIY light-wave communication kit: a phone plays music into an LED transmitter, the music travels as flickering light to a solar-cell receiver, and a speaker plays it back
DIY Light-Wave Communication KitSince 2017, I have designed and distributed 200+ do-it-yourself visible-light communication kits to K-12 students at schools and a children’s museum, and to undergraduates at Oklahoma State and Texas A&M.2017–present
PETE-Kits rural outreach: a connected technology kit with sensors and a tablet links to a rural schoolhouse next to farmland, bringing hands-on technology to K-12 students
PETE-Kits rural outreachProductivity Enhancing Technology Experience Kits brought hands-on technology to K-12 schools in rural Oklahoma counties to promote rural entrepreneurship.NSF Smart and Connected Communities · 2021–2023
Student research programs: two undergraduate researchers at a lab bench with an oscilloscope, a software-defined radio with an antenna, and a laptop plotting results
Student research programsResearch mentor for OK-LSAMP (Oklahoma Louis Stokes Alliance for Minority Participation), NSF REU scholars, and undergraduate research scholars.OK-LSAMP · NSF REU
Schools and museums: a light-wave communication demo set up in front of a museum building, with young visitors watching a light beam carry a signal to a receiver
Schools and museumsNational Lab Day for high-school students (2017–2019), Summer Bridge and Discovery Days, elementary-school visits, and the Oklahoma WONDERtorium children’s museum.K-12 · families

From the field

DIY kit: visible-light transmitter and receiver boards
The DIY light-wave kit: transmitter and receiver
A phone streaming music through an LED transmitter to the DIY receiver
Music streamed over light
Students building light-wave communication circuits at a Summer Bridge workshop
Summer Bridge workshop
Group photo of Summer Bridge and Discovery Days participants in the lab
Summer Bridge & Discovery Days
High-school students trying wireless demos at National Lab Day 2019
National Lab Day 2019
High-school students and lab members at National Lab Day 2018
National Lab Day 2018