Introduction Infrared (IR) Our project is an infrared (IR) tracking system. A beacon, placed on the object to be tracked, continuously emits infrared signals in all directions. The signals coming from the beacon are detected by 2 IR receivers mounted on 2 stepper motors, which rotate independently and are in separate locations. The direction each receiver […]
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Introduction High Level Design After working with the ATmega family of processors for the first six lab assignments, and working extensively with generating television screen images, we decided that a video game would be a viable goal for a final project. While not as hardware-intensive as some projects, we decided that our experimentation with the
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Introduction “Our project implements the game, Reversi, on TV with a smart artificial intelligence and a host of other features!” It’s our childhood game. We were so excited when we found out that we can actually build it for our 476 final project. We looked at the websites for various design of the game setup
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<Introduction> In the last few decades technology has constantly pushed music further and further into the digital realm. Digital technology has infiltrated all aspects of music-making, from its creation to its recording, editing and production. We have decided to join this technology movement by fitting it to our taste. Since both of us enjoy playing
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Introduction Nowadays in the video gaming industry, one of the most popular categories of game is music and motion simulation game. There are games where players are required to play the drum according to the matching signals and the music of the game; there are games where players play the midi keyboard according to the
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Introduction We have created a real-time, multithreaded, preemptive operating system called kaOS for the Atmel Mega32 microcontroller, which loads and executes programs from a Secure Digital or MMC card. We wrote this OS and created the SD/MMC card reader as a final project for Cornell’s ECE 476 class taught by Professor Bruce Land. Our reason
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INTRODUCTION “Keyboard mania gives users an opportunity to learn and gain a unique taste of playing an electronic piano without the presence of a music teacher.” Summary of our Project We designed an electronic musical instrument, called keyboard mania, able to play an octave of notes with additional features. Features include a menu for user
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Introduction Soundbyte TV Jezzball with dangling mouse, created by Cornell ECE476 students Arthur Zhang and Yewen Ying, is a hot, new, cool, retro look back to when times were simpler, computers were slower, and TV’s were black and white. Overview From the beginning, because of our interest in computer games, we wanted to make a
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Introduction to Duck Hunt For our final project in ECE476, we implemented a multi-duck and multi-player version of the Nintendo classic Duck Hunt on the Atmel Mega32 microcontroller. In 1985, Nintendo released a game for the Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) called Duck Hunt, and it was hugely popular with kids at the time. When we
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Introduction The pitch “The Contender” is an interacting boxing game in which the player actively participate in the game with real time punching, ducking, dodging, etc. The Description and Motivation This game is a twist of a popular arcade game called “Mocap Boxing”, short for Motion Capture Boxing. In this game, the players are asked
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