About: Ibrar Ayyub

Introduction The name of our final project is “Legend Maker, Train to Be a Guitar Legend”. Legend Maker is a game that is a cross between Guitar Hero (rhythm) and Karaoke Revolution (tone detection) as it tests the user’s ability to play a real guitar (or any electric string instrument). The user can choose from […]

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 […]

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 […]

1.1  Motivation: Alarm clocks are essential in almost everyones daily life.  For most of us, we start our day to the sweet noise of our alarms.  While some people wake up instantaneously to the first chirp of an alarm, some struggle everyday to get out of the bed. The Retractable Alarm Clock is the next […]

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 […]

Using a specially designed hot-water drill to cleanly bore through a half mile of ice, a National Science Foundation (NSF)-funded team of researchers has become the first ever to reach and sample the “grounding zone,” where Antarctic ice, land and sea all converge. Data gathered from samples of sediment taken in the grounding zone will provide clues about the mechanics of ice sheets and their potential effects on sea-level rise.

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 […]

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, […]

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 […]

The Clapper was a popular gadget in the 80’s and 90’s. It let you turn appliances on and off just by clapping. This can be pretty useful, but it has some limitations. First there is the problem of loud noises accidentally turning the lights off. Also, you can’t control multiple outlets independently of each other. […]