About: Ibrar Ayyub

Introduction Our project measures the user’s skin conductance for monitoring his or her mental state. Summary Medical experiments have shown that the magnitude of the electrical conductance in a person’s skin is directly correlated to their emotional state. The short term changes in electrical conductances also correlate with a person’s mental response. We implemented an […]

An hours-long Internet outage Tuesday in one of the world’s least-wired countries was probably more inconvenient to foreigners than to North Korean residents, most of whom have never gone online. Even for wired Koreans south of the heavily armed border separating the rivals, the temporary outage made little difference—southerners are banned by law from accessing North Korean websites.

Introduction For our ECE 476 final project we developed an autonomous stabilization system for a coaxial helicopter with tri-radial tilt control designed for stability. The purpose of this project was the design of a fully autonomous stabilization system intended for systems capable of intelligent programming and navigation. This means that the design focuses mainly on the control […]

When we think of programmable speech recognition, we think of calling FedEx customer service call center with automated voice recognition response systems. We also think of PC-based speech recognition Dragon NaturallySpeaking. Now we took that a step further. We are talking about speech recognition in a tiny Mega32 microcontroller. We are talking about real-time speech […]

Introduction Overview SecureLED is an optical access control device which replaces current RFID or Magnetic Strip technologies with a cryptographically secure, contact-less device which communicates over commodity Light Emitting Diodes (LEDs). Project Summary This project started with one central premise: current physical access control systems are insecure in fundamental ways. We sought a way to […]

Introduction This ECE 476 Final project is an interactive soccer video game designed and built by Cornell students and soccer enthusiasts Ozan Mutluer and Erinc Tokluoglu. The game focuses on a penalty kick where the user is to enter the direction of the shoot by a keypad and the power and inclination of the shoot […]

Introduction The objective of this project was to build a keyboard based on capacitive sensors and then use the MCU to create MIDI encodings for all notes played. The output from the sensors is detected by the MCU using its ADC capability. The sound is played directly by the MCU via a piezo speaker using […]

Introduction: One Sentence Sound Byte: “Grillzilla – A wireless meat grilling thermometer which alerts the user whether their entrée is cooked according to USDA recommendations via LCD and voice feedback.” Summary of what we did: As the weather starts to get warmer a common type of social gathering that occurs is the barbeque. Barbeques are […]

As the main component of connective tissue in the body, fibroblasts are the most common type of cell. Taking advantage of that ready availability, scientists from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, the Wistar Institute, Boston University School of Medicine, and New Jersey Institute of Technology have discovered a way to repurpose fibroblasts into functional melanocytes, the body’s pigment-producing cells.

 Introduction Objective The goal of this project is to design a useful and fully functional real-world product that efficiently translates the movement of the fingers into the American Sign Language. Background The American Sign Language (ASL) is a visual language based on hand gestures. It has been well-developed by the deaf community over the past […]