Introduction The project involves an experiment in implementing a human-computer interface by tracking finger and wrist motions. Brief: “Ever wish you could control a computer just by moving your fingers or your hand?” We did. The primary goal is to design and build a functional prototype implementing an intuitive interface for a user to interact […]
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Introduction Laser communications systems are wireless connections through the atmosphere. They work similarly to fiber optic links, except the beam is transmitted through free space. While the transmitter and receiver must require line-of-sight conditions, they have the benefit of eliminating the need for broadcast rights and buried cables. Laser communications systems can be easily deployed
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Introduction For our final project, we decided to build a digital message machine which displayed on a mirror. This is a variation from other digital message machines we had seen in stores and in past final projects. Instead of quickly moving a wand of LED’s to display the message on, we decided that holding the
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Introduction The main goal of this project was to write and develop a graphical version of the card game commonly referred to as Memory for use on an Atmel Mega32 microcontroller unit. Memory is a card game where the player tries to match pairs of identical cards together by only flipping any two cards over
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INTRODUCTION Sail the high seas searching for treasure and protecting your ship from pirates in a video game in which a system of lasers discerns the direction of wind and you specify wind magnitude, sail height, and rudder position. Originally, we had the idea of using lasers, half-silvered mirrors, and phototransistors to make a device
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Introduction The goal of our project was to replicate the great arcade classic Pac-Man on television in black and white. The inspiration for this project came from our love of video games and our introduction to NTSC TV signal generation in Labs 3 and 4. We chose Pac-Man because it is a widely recognized classic
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Introduction Our final project is the classic Atari version of spaceinvaders on the MEGA32. The story: A horde of space invaders are attempting to land on the planet’s surface. You play a heroic pixilated thing on the ground trying to stop them one bullet at a time. It wasn’t Half Life, but eh… it was
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Introduction Our project is a fighter game. The user controls a fighter, which moves around the TV screen. The user starts the game with a defined number of lives. It has two kinds of enemies: the asteroids and the monsters. Asteroids drop randomly from the top of the screen (imagine the fighter moving forward, which
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Introduction Sound Bite One word: FROGGER!! Why Frogger? We chose Frogger for several reasons. First, we believe that it is an entertaining game, which is complex enough to implement as a project. Second, Frogger allows us to use knowledge that we have acquired in this class about TVs and NTSC signals. Lastly, Frogger brings back
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Introduction: MIDI Synthesizer Our Final Project for ECE 476 was building a MIDI synthesizer using a MEGA 32 microcontroller. At first we wanted to tear apart an old keyboard and use the MCU to decode directly from the sensors which detected key presses. We then learned about the MIDI protocol and decided to use the
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