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 […]
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 »
INTRODUCTION The Internet of Things (IoT) devices have become very popular in various critical and non-critical usage fields. Many people have started to use IoT devices realizing their benefits in their lives and scientific research [MSPC12, CGOF13].Because of the popularity of IoT devices, developers gravitate toward the development of IoT applications. These applications utilize IoT
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Researchers from the Smart Management of Infrastructure Laboratory (SMILab), located in the Center for Advanced Research Computing, have developed a new strain sensor as a part of the Low-Cost Efficient Wireless Intelligent Sensors (LEWIS) project. The new sensor, called the LEWIS-S, is easy to use, wireless, and can be offered at about 5% of the cost of
Introduction The Utah State University (USU) Materials Physics Group (MPG) is interested in the performanceof Commercial Off the Shelf (COTS) microcontrollers in space conditions. Microcontrollers are commonlyused on CubeSats, small relatively inexpensive satellites that are flown in Low Earth Orbit (LEO) ataltitudes of ~160 km-2000 km. There is a large area of interest in COTS
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I. Introduction Today, the rising cost of energy and social trend of “going green” has put increasing pressure on commercial property owners to improve the efficiency of their investments. There is good reason for this, too. In the State of California, office buildings represent the single largest user of energy in the commercial sector (Efficiency
Overview The Pololu USB AVR programmer [http://www.pololu.com/product/1300] is a programmer for Atmel’s AVRmicrocontrollers and controller boards based on these MCUs, such as Pololu Orangutan robot controllers[http://www.pololu.com/category/8/robot-controllers] and the 3pi robot [http://www.pololu.com/product/975]. The programmer emulates an STK500 on a virtual serial port, making it compatible with standard AVR programming software. Two additional features help with building
Introduction The Chipcon (now owned by Texas Instruments) CC2420 is a commercial radio chip that complies with the ZigBee wireless standard. We have CC2420DBK development kits available for your project. Each development kit comes with 2 development boards (2 radios). Each development board has a Chipcon CC2420 radio, an Atmel Atmega128L microcontroller, 32kB of external RAM, an
Welcome to my version of the LED reactive table! I was inspired by previous work using discrete LEDs, such as this one, but I figured it would be easier and more fun to use NeoPixels — programmable RGB LEDs that can be set to any color you want. The table consists of a large array of infrared emitters
Program 6 ATtiny85/13A at the same time with this custom programmer board. Description Watch the video for a better tutorial. Attiny MCUs are very popular as it is quite easy to program them and using them instead of the atmega328 chip can reduce the cost of the overall project which requires less input/outputs. So let
