INTRODUCTION In the modern American classic, Rocky IV, Ivan Drago (portrayed by Dolph Lundgren) is shown utilizing a then-futuristic electronic punch meter (in addition to anabolic steroids) in his quest to triumph over Rocky in one of the Cold War’s only face to face confrontations. While we dispensed with the communist symbolism (and controlled substances) […]
Introduction There are very few ways to improve one’s skills in conducting a live band. Practicing by conducting a real band requires coordination of many people and conducting along to pre-recorded songs does not provide feedback on the accuracy of the conductor’s selected tempo. The system we designed uses a glove with an accelerometer to
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For our 4760 final project, we built a virtual bowling game interface on a black and white Television in which the ball can be controlled by the glove which has the flex sensors and the accelerometer attached to it. There are 5 flex sensors on the glove to detect the ball grasped and the ball
For our ECE 4760 final project, we designed and built a bicycle dashboard which displays the cyclist’s pedaling power, speed, cadence, and distance to enhance training. The major motivation of this project was to replicate a commercial product at a dramatically reduced price point. A commercial power meter costs around $1000 for just the instrumented
Introduction For our final project, we have decided to use the microcontroller provided to make a device which would measure body fat percentage of one’s body. The basic principle behind this project is known as bioelectrical impedance analysis. This technique uses a small alternating current flowing between two electrodes attached to skin surface to determine
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Introduction Musical Instrument Digital Interface, or MIDI, is a standard that describes a protocol, digital interface and specific physical connections that allow electronic music devices and computers to communicate with each other. For our final project, we created a MIDI glove that is capable of connecting to a virtual synthesizer on our computer and controlling
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Introduction The Skittles Mini-Factory is self-contained repackaging unit that separates Skittles by color. Once separated, the Skittles are resealed in individual plastic bags. The Skittles are dispensed one at a time (either automatically or manually) onto a light sensing module. Red, green, blue, and white light are reflected off the skittle and read by
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INTRODUCTION This project implements a real-time scrolling spectrogram-style visualization of an audio signal. We successfully displayed the frequency spectrum content in real time using a 4-bit grayscale scrolling display on any NTSC television. The frequency spectrum of an audio line-in input or mic input is calculated and displayed in real time using two ATmega1284 microcontrollers
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This past summer I had the opportunity to work for computer science PhD candidate Ryo Suzuki under the guidance of Tom Yeh of the computer science department. My task was developing printed circuit boards for experiments for human computer interaction (HCI). The goal was to create a surface which a magnet could be moved to create
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I would first like to acknowledge my adviser, Dr. Yanjun Yan, for her patience, kindness, and mostof all her assistance in completing this thesis. I would like to thank Dr. Martin Tanaka, Dr. PeterTay, and Dr. Paul Yanik for serving on my thesis committee. ABSTRACT Inspired by the emergent behavior of swarms, we want to
BUILDING KILOBOTS AND REVISING KILOBOT DESIGN FOR IMPROVING THE OPTICAL RESPONSE Read More »
