About: Ibrar Ayyub

While exuding retro style, the alarm clock in its original state lacked many desirable features of today’s alarm clocks. The only controls consisted of a single on/off switch. It also lacked AM/PM indication, making it impossible to sleep for more than 12 hours. Our project sought to maintain the integrity of the original alarm clock, […]

Introduction The goal of this project was to develop a working bench-top microcontroller platform for a shark tag. It is to be used for on-animal, in-situ data logging applications involving sharks and potentially other large pelagics. For this project I used the Atmel Mega32 microcontroller to develop the core platform and functionality of a data […]

Summary We used two stepper motors to drive a steel ball scavenged from a ball-bearing.  These motors were controlled by a PS/2 mouse wirelessly using the RCR-433 and RCT-433 receiver/transmission combination mentioned in lecture.  We then took the PS/2 protocol, made it compact, modified existing transmission code and deduced a way to control the robot […]

A team of space researchers working with data from the VLT in Chile has found via measuring the spectrum of a distant quasar by analyzing absorption lines in a galaxy in front of it, that there was no measurable change in the mass ratio of protons and electrons over a span of 12 billion years.

Introduction Was that a … projectile? a rocket? an [XXXXX] missile? That was a dynamically controlled parachute guidance system looking for its target. The purpose of this project was to design a dynamically controlled parachute guidance system using an Atmel ATmega32 microcontroller. A set of avionic hardware was built and software programmed in addition to […]

The world’s national parks and nature reserves receive around eight billion visits every year, according to the first study into the global scale of nature-based tourism in protected areas. The paper, by researchers in Cambridge, UK, Princeton, New Jersey, and Washington, DC, published in the open access journal PLOS Biology, is the first global-scale attempt to answer the question of how many visits protected areas receive, and what they might be worth in terms of tourist dollars.

Deep public divisions over climate change are unrelated to differences in how well ordinary citizens understand scientific evidence on global warming. Indeed, members of the public who score the highest on a climate-science literacy test are the most politically polarized on whether human activity is causing global temperatures to rise.

Introduction: Motivation for Design The Mechanix is a motorized guitar tuner for a standard 6-string electric or acoustic fixed bridge guitar.  Named in honor of Megadeth guitar legend Dave Mustaine, the Mechanix is a unique and innovative product which has numerous patent possibilities.  Traditional handheld guitar tuners are passive; they tell the user whether the […]

Introduction The purpose of this project is to create a Scheme interpreter using C language and Mega32 microprocessor. Using limited resource and memory in the microprocessor, the interpreter should function and work for basic Scheme commands. The main target of the project is to use the memory of the microprocessor as fully as possible to […]

Introduction This project simulates 9 holes of a minigolf course using the TV to display the course (top down view), an anchored plastic ball containing two accelerometers, and a putter. Summary We used a hollow plastic ball containing two accelerometers for each planar axis with the ground, and anchored it to an object above it […]