Introduction BlindAid is a portable tool that reads Braille and signals close objects. It is ideal for those unfortunate people who just turned blind and have not mastered Braille reading and blind cane usage. It can also be used as a learning instrument that helps the user decipher Braille without constantly going to the Braille […]
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Introduction Are you afraid that your brand new Hummer is going to get scratched while parking it in a tight space? Do you have trouble backing your large Mercedez S-class into your small garage? Fear no more! Our ultrasonic ParKontroller can sense how far you are away from the wall or a hidden object behind
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Introduction Our project is an automated pet feeder that is controlled by a wireless infra-red remote control. As pet lovers, we understand that the responsibilities of life sometimes inhibit pet owners from properly caring for their pets. Pet care should be fun, not burdensome, and so our goal with this project was to assist owners
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Introduction The Newest Innovation in Patient Compliance The Portable Programmable Medication Scheduler (PPMS) is a modern solution to the century old problem of patient compliance, featuring four medication bins, audio/visual alarms, a graphic LCD, and serial communication with a Java Swing PC GUI. The conjunction of Electrical Engineering and the practice of Medicine has grown
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Introduction The CCDImager is an Atmel Mega32 microcontroller driven imaging system that uses a Charge-Coupled Device (CCD) optical sensor to capture a still image. The purpose of this project was to design a basic imaging device from first principles. While brainstorming for ideas for the final project, we came across several varied applications of microcontrollers,
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Introduction CalcParser is a command line calculator. Controlled by a serial connection, CalcParser parses and evaluates an arithmetic expression and has the capabilities to perform symbolic polynomial differentiation with respect to a user-defined variable. It can also evaluate the differentiated expression at a given constant value of the user-defined variable. High Level Design Rationale and
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Introduction A perfect tool for high school students that will pursue a career in engineering, the graphing and statistics calculator combines the functionality of a scientific calculator with graphing capabilities as well as being able to compute simple statistics. The purpose of this calculator is to compete in the graphing calculator market with the common
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Introduction For our final design project, we chose to build a touch screen radio controlled car. Essentially, the RC car will follow a path drawn by the user on the touch screen as it is drawn in real time. Speed and direction of the car was extrapolated from the user drawn path and sent to
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Introduction The clock is one of the oldest inventions in human history and has been used for centuries as in instrument for measuring time. There are many ways to implement this ancient technology by simple and practical methods. However, si mplicity and practicality were not among the goals of this project. Instead, the project is
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1 Introduction Our final project is the CUSat Diagnostic Board (CUDB). This board will be used for monitoring CUSat system health as well as performing various functions allowing for easy integration and debugging of CUSat components. 1.1 CUSat CUSat is the Cornell satellite team’s entry into the Nanosat-4 competition sponsored by the Air Force Research
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