About: Ibrar Ayyub

Introduction For our final project we built a prototype of a circuit intended for a picosatellite that measures temperature and acceleration, sending the information wirelessly back to a base station receiver. The N-Prize is an amateur rocketry competition challenging groups to launch a very small (10g-20g) satellite into orbit for less than $2000, and track […]

Introduction With the increasing awareness of sustainable and green building, more and more people are concerned with the efficiency of energy use at home and at work. For our ECE 476 Final Project, we developed a microcontroller-based, interior illumination system – The Heliostat Skylight. By reflecting light that would otherwise be lost, the Heliostat Skylight […]

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), writing about GPS, said: “The military relies heavily on the Global Positioning System (GPS) for positioning, navigation, and timing (PNT), but GPS access is easily blocked by methods such as jamming. In addition, many environments in which our military operates (inside buildings, in urban canyons, under dense foliage, underwater, and underground) have limited or no GPS access.” This raises the questions of what DARPA plans as a step up

Introduction Our project can be described as a simplified implementation of Wii-Music, utilizing a Nintendo Wii Remote (Wiimote) to play a gesture-based music game with the player as a virtual music conductor.             We decided to do this project since it exploited two of the Wiimotes more peculiar features: its wand-like shape and the embedded 3-D […]

Scientists working at the National Institute of Standards and Technology and the National Institutes of Health have devised and demonstrated a new, shape-shifting probe, about one-hundredth as wide as a human hair, which is capable of sensitive, high-resolution remote biological sensing that is not possible with current technology.

The widespread and indiscriminate use of antibiotics has prompted many bacteria to mutate, an adaptation that often renders the drugs useless. The increasing threat of resistance worries infectious disease experts who fear that the era of public health successes brought by the introduction of antibiotics in the 1940s is seriously eroding, or soon even may be at an end.

ntroduction The purpose of this project is to create musical blocks that output music without requiring some sort of musical talent. Musical Blocks tracks the position of the blocks on a flat surface in a range seen by the Wiimote. The path of the blocks is then converted into a sequence of notes which is […]

One of the dominant theories of our evolution is that our genus, Homo, evolved from small-bodied early humans to become the taller, heavier and longer legged Homo erectus that was able to migrate beyond Africa and colonise Eurasia. While we know that small-bodied Homo erectus – averaging less than five foot (152cm) and under 50kg – were living in Georgia in southern Europe by 1.77 million years ago, the timing and geographic origin of the larger body size that we associate with modern humans has, until now, remained unresolved.

Introduction Our project recreates the experience of playing an acoustic guitar electrically using vibration sensors, push buttons and the Karplus-Strong algorithm. Our basic idea is to model an acoustic guitar as closely as possible and then implement additional functions not available to the conventional guitar. This includes allowing the play of the guitar with sound […]

Introduction Using computer vision and rules for a perfect tic tac toe game. We have built a system that would never lose in a fair game (i.e. marking 1 cell per turn) of tic tac toe. The idea is simple, have a camera driven Mega644 system that detects for changes on a Tic Tac Toe […]