About: Ibrar Ayyub

Introduction Our final project is a two-player, 3D, air hockey video game using non-contact paddles. A single Atmel ATmega32 microcontroller on a prototype board is used to compute puck dynamics, decode inputs from two Hall effect sensor arrays, compute paddle-puck interactions, perform perspective projections from 3D to 2D for each player, and generate two different […]

Introduction Sound bite Our project is a karaoke recording machine which is capable of removing the voice component of a music file and storing the users singing voice with the background music to an external compact flash memory.  It can also be used as a stand-alone voice recorder. Summary Our Karaoke machine has 6 modes. […]

In a world-first achievement, scientists from the RIKEN Center for Emergent Matter Science in Japan, along with colleagues from the National Institute of Material Science and the University of Tokyo, have developed a new hydrogel whose properties are dominated by electrostatic repulsion, rather than attractive interactions.

The purpose of this project was to take a traditional remote controlled car and create our own control mechanisms. To control the car, we used a dual-axis accelerometer and LEDs (light emitting diodes) configured as photo-detectors. The control mechanism was selected using a single pole dual throw (spdt) switch was wired in a single pole […]

(Phys.org)—It was an interesting week even as we entered the holiday season, researchers at MIT found that halting photons could lead to miniature particle accelerators and perhaps improved data transmission. The light trapping process discovered last year involved twisting the polarization direction now appears to be related to a wide range of other seemingly unrelated phenomena

Introduction Compose your own virtual guitar masterpiece or follow along with a preprogrammed classic. No experience needed! We developed a guitar synthesizer with video component inspired by the popular video game Guitar Hero. The original game consisted of only reproducing popular rock and roll songs but we wanted to allow players to be able to […]

In a new paper accepted by the journal Astroparticle Physics, Robert Ehrlich, a recently retired physicist from George Mason University, claims that the neutrino is very likely a tachyon or faster-than-light particle. There have been many such claims, the last being in 2011 when the “OPERA” experiment measured the speed of neutrinos and claimed they travelled a tiny amount faster than light

Loucetios™ is a state-of-the-art, self-configuring lighting control system solution for bedrooms, offices and perimeter areas. Under automatic operation, the system senses luminosity inside and outside a room, controls the angle of the blinds and dims the lamps to maintain a prescribed level of illumination inside the room. The system also provides the user with 4 […]

Introduction This project implements a multi-function multimedia system that allows the user to sing with the music video and generate some fancy sound effects. In recent decades, multimedia becomes quite popular in our daily life. In fact, multimedia system has existed for a long time. People enjoy the time viewing photos, listening to music, and […]

Introduction A spotlight that follows you on its own! The ultrasonic spotlight tracker is a system that uses a wireless beacon to track a targets location using both RF signals and ultrasound waves.  It then drives a light source to point at the location of the target.   High Level Design The motivation for an […]