Introduction The Music Wand is a device that optically reads printed sheet music in real-time and synthesizes the notes which are read from the page. The device uses a linear image sensor mounted on the end of a handheld wand to scan printed sheet music and identify the note pitches. For each note detected, a […]
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While exuding retro style, the alarm clock in its original state lacked many desirable features of today’s alarm clocks. The only controls consisted of a single on/off switch. It also lacked AM/PM indication, making it impossible to sleep for more than 12 hours. Our project sought to maintain the integrity of the original alarm clock,
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Introduction The goal of this project was to develop a working bench-top microcontroller platform for a shark tag. It is to be used for on-animal, in-situ data logging applications involving sharks and potentially other large pelagics. For this project I used the Atmel Mega32 microcontroller to develop the core platform and functionality of a data
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Summary We used two stepper motors to drive a steel ball scavenged from a ball-bearing. These motors were controlled by a PS/2 mouse wirelessly using the RCR-433 and RCT-433 receiver/transmission combination mentioned in lecture. We then took the PS/2 protocol, made it compact, modified existing transmission code and deduced a way to control the robot
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Introduction Was that a … projectile? a rocket? an [XXXXX] missile? That was a dynamically controlled parachute guidance system looking for its target. The purpose of this project was to design a dynamically controlled parachute guidance system using an Atmel ATmega32 microcontroller. A set of avionic hardware was built and software programmed in addition to
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Introduction: Motivation for Design The Mechanix is a motorized guitar tuner for a standard 6-string electric or acoustic fixed bridge guitar. Named in honor of Megadeth guitar legend Dave Mustaine, the Mechanix is a unique and innovative product which has numerous patent possibilities. Traditional handheld guitar tuners are passive; they tell the user whether the
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Introduction The purpose of this project is to create a Scheme interpreter using C language and Mega32 microprocessor. Using limited resource and memory in the microprocessor, the interpreter should function and work for basic Scheme commands. The main target of the project is to use the memory of the microprocessor as fully as possible to
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Introduction This project simulates 9 holes of a minigolf course using the TV to display the course (top down view), an anchored plastic ball containing two accelerometers, and a putter. Summary We used a hollow plastic ball containing two accelerometers for each planar axis with the ground, and anchored it to an object above it
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Introduction Our project is a wireframe 3D video game based on the classic Atari arcade game, Battlezone (Copyright Atari Corp, 1980). For those that have never heard of the game, Battlezone is a game in which the player maneuvers a tank through a flat environment, shooting and destroying enemy tanks while taking advantage of obstacles.
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Inspiration Our project was first inspired by our shared enjoyment of classic laser tag. We initially started out with a game in mind that entailed playing two player laser tag with remote-controlled helium blimps. Due to a number of logistical issues that came up while in the process of implementing our idea including difficulty providing
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