About: Ibrar Ayyub

(Phys.org)—By wearing clothes that have been dip-coated in a silver nanowire (AgNW) solution that is highly radiation-insulating, a person may stay so warm in the winter that they can greatly reduce or even eliminate their need for heating their home. Considering that 47% of global energy is spent on indoor heating, and 42% of that specifically for residential heating, such highly insulating clothing could potentially have huge cost savings.

Introduction The SearchBot is a fully functional model car that can be controlled wirelessly through the PC or autonomously search for red balls scattered on a flat surface. Autonomous vehicles are just now being realized in labs around the world and will soon have major military and commercial potential. The Adaptive Communications and Signals Processing […]

Introduction As our final project, we decided to design and build a robot capable of vacuuming the floor of a room or area without any human interaction other than just starting the unit. We realized the need for a cheap and convenient product that can be easily used to vacuum a room on its own, […]

Introduction Cooler-Bot is an autonomous vehicle that uses ultrasonic transducers to sense distance and direction to a remote ultrasonic mobile unit that it is designed to follow. Our original goal was to design a vehicle that would carry a beverages for the user and follow them at a distance of about 1m around the Atmel […]

Overview: A system consisting of an ATMEL MEGA32 chip, Altera FLEX10K FPGA, and a library of source code for the Atmel processor to generate 256-color VGA video signals in real time optimized for game development. Introduction: The Nintendo Entertainment System sports 2 KB of RAM and a 1.79 MHz 8-bit processor. Using an additional video […]

(Phys.org)—This year’s CES 2015 will draw technology watchers, including industry vendors, buyers and technology media; many in the media will be asked by their publications to keep their focus on booths and events representing the product mainstream—tablets, PCs, phones, smartwatches, automobile apps, connected home devices—avoiding distraction from displays of fun gadgets way out in futureland. We will need some disobedient media watchers, though, because some fun displays will introduce important breakthroughs and practical applications to come.

Introduction: Our project is a serial port-controlled, high resolution color television picture display. We divided the project into the image transfer and storage portion and the television display portion. We opted for an RS-232 port for picture transmission because it involves a relatively simple, well-known protocol that will allow us to change the picture on […]

Introduction My final project creates a relatively high resolution color TV display by using two microcontrollers with shared access to external memory. In the fall of 2005, I worked on a microcontroller project to create color video using an Atmel microcontroller. I had soon realized that since the microcontrollers have a very small amount of […]

(Phys.org) —The ubiquitous van der Waals interaction – a consequence of quantum charge fluctuations – includes intermolecular forces such as attraction and repulsion between atoms, molecules and surfaces. The most long-range force acting between particles, it influences a range of phenomena including surface adhesion, friction and colloid stability.

Introduction Our final project is a musical water fountain loosely based on the fountain in front of the famed Bellagio hotel and casino. The basic idea of the project is to take an input from an iPod (or any sound source), sample the sound and break it down to different “sequencies” by Walsh Transform , […]