About: Ibrar Ayyub

WARNING: Turns out this violates a lot of usb safety regulations, and pumps 5v into your usb port. While this is not harmful on a lost of computers, this MAY FRY YOUR PC’s usb port. I will post an updated design later this week that is actually safe! Hey all, this is my first post on […]

Introduction We have used the Atmel Mega32 AVR microcontroller to construct an affordable, high end security system designed to protect valuables in a single room of a house or property. According to national surveys conducted by the department of Justice, property crimes are ten times more prevalent in the United States than violent crimes. On […]

Introduction Our final project is a programmable, self-playing xylophone with random melody generation and a pitch detection based interface. From early mechanical devices to todays musical greeting cards, history has seen numerous examples of automated music machines. This project represents a quick, modern take on that tradition with several additional features. We designed and implemented […]

For our design project, we decided to replicate the video game known as Scorched Earth: The Mother of All Games where two tanks fire missiles at one another by adjusting angles and power while adjusting for variable wind. The objective of Scorched Earth is to destroy the enemy tank before your tank is destroyed.  Two […]

Introduction Short Summary This project allows a Wonderswan developer to upload 64 kB of code/data and execute it on real Wonderswan handheld gaming hardware. Long Summary We started by opening up one of our Wonderswan cartridges and identifying the various chips and circuitry found inside. We found the main ROM chip, and guessed that it […]

1.  Introduction 1.1  Project Summary Our project is a space dogfighting video game where two players attempt to destroy each other using a variety of ships and weapons.  The battlefield is a 128×100 pixel area on a TV, and a small planet resides in the middle, exerting gravitational forces on the ships and inviting them […]

Like hedonistic rock stars that live by the “better to burn out than to fade away” credo, certain galaxies flame out in a blaze of glory. Astronomers have struggled to grasp why these young “starburst” galaxies—ones that are very rapidly forming new stars from cold molecular hydrogen gas up to 100 times faster than our own Milky Way—would shut down their prodigious star formation to join a category scientists call “red and dead.”

If this is your first time on the Cornell Campus, you need not worry! Cause we have the best guide for you! Introduction The Cornell Campus is quite large, and finding your way around can get a bit frustrating. The Big Red Guide is a GPS receiver that displays your position on an LCD, as […]

Introduction For my ECE 476 Design Project, I built Missile Command using the Atmel Mega 32 microcontroller.  My version of Missile Command is based on Ataris 1981 version.  After looking at some of the past ece476 final projects, I noticed no one had tried to build Missile Command.  This game was one of my favorites […]

Many published microbiome studies are likely to have been contaminated and may incorrectly report the presence of microorganisms unintentionally introduced from the laboratory environment, says a study published in the open access journal BMC Biology. The findings could explain why unexpected bacteria have been previously identified in clinical samples and suggests that studies may have prematurely proposed links to disease.