Introduction “This device allows friends to learn songs, create their own songs, and collaboratively merge them.” Our final project for ECE 4760 is a fully customizable button keyboard that has a variety of features to allow for collaborative music-making between friends. Each keyboard has eight fully programmable buttons; any button can play any valid MIDI […]
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Introduction There’s a simple question asked by runners, walkers, joggers, and anyone who moves. How fast am I going? Runners want to pace themselves, athletes are trying to train for events, and even on a day to day basis you might wonder how far you are travelling. There are various existing methods of measuring pace,
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This webpage describes the development of a Stabilized Gimbal Control System for the CUAir team, Cornell University’s Unmanned Air Systems Team. The Stabilized Gimbal Control System will help the CUAir team compete at the Association for Unmanned Vehicle System International (AUVSI) Student Unmanned Air Systems (SUAS) Competition. The system developed will help the team accomplish
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1. Introduction Sound Bite We created a handheld self-stabilizing camera platform using two high-torque servo motors, a gyroscope, an accelerometer, and a wooden frame. Brief Summary As avid outdoor enthusiasts, we often find ourselves taking action shots of our adventures, only to discover a very shaky and nauseating video of our endeavors at the end
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Introduction “A new spin on Laser Tag with Wireless Real-Time Updates” For our ECE 4760 final project, we designed and built our own laser tag system. We included many traditional laser tag features, but then added our own 4760 twist. For the purposes of a prototype for this class, we only created enough equipment for
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Introduction Our final project is to design a security system which can be unlocked by means of a stored gesture pattern. The idea is to create a box like assembly, in which the user places his hand, makes a defined gesture and unlocks the system. Basically, there is a mechanism that allows the user to
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For our ECE 4760 final project, we designed and built a running band that provides feedback to users with temperature and vibration. This provides an unique way to monitor running habits with temperature feedback. The running band attaches to a user’s upper arm and counts the number of steps the user takes. It then determines
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Introduction The most fitting way to explain our final project is to describe it as a smartboard replacer. Through the use of an IR camera, we read the position and movement of an IR LED to interact with a remote laptop. The systems comes with two modes, whiteboard mode and blackboard mode, which can be
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Introduction We have created an autonomous, servo-controlled fire extinguisher that is capable of aiming photo sensors and a water nozzle along two axes to detect and extinguish candle fires a short distance (about 1 ft.) away using a small burst of water. Our inspiration originally came from thinking about an automated toy sentry turret that
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For our ECE 4760 final project, we designed and built a pointing device with webcam-color-tracking based movement control. Our implementation allows the user to wear a set of finger-sleeves complete with buttons for clicking and scrolling and a red LED for color-tracking cursor control to interface with a computer as a normal mouse would. Users
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