Introduction A spotlight that follows you on its own! The ultrasonic spotlight tracker is a system that uses a wireless beacon to track a targets location using both RF signals and ultrasound waves. It then drives a light source to point at the location of the target. High Level Design The motivation for an […]
Introduction The objective of this project was to build a keyboard based on capacitive sensors and then use the MCU to create MIDI encodings for all notes played. The output from the sensors is detected by the MCU using its ADC capability. The sound is played directly by the MCU via a piezo speaker using
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Introduction Objective The goal of this project is to design a useful and fully functional real-world product that efficiently translates the movement of the fingers into the American Sign Language. Background The American Sign Language (ASL) is a visual language based on hand gestures. It has been well-developed by the deaf community over the past
I. Introduction Simply write; your computer will undersand! We have designed and implemented a Handwriting Recognition System using a touch screen from a Palm Pilot m125, a black and white TV and a Mega32 microcontroller. Unfortunately, due to the lack of specifications regarding the built-in LCD on the Palm Pilot, we were unable to reverse
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Introduction The goal of our project was to develop a remote control whose buttons would be readily programmable by recording the signal from another remote control. After revising several standards on infrared signals, we determined that the approach to take was to record the signal by determining the width of the transitions in the waveform,
Introduction Our project is a digital stethoscope that displays your heartbeat on any television. It also calculates beats per minute and alerts you if your rate falls out of a specified range. At the highest level, the design of our project centers around an acquisition circuit, data processing in two MCUs, and the output on
I. Introduction The goal of this project is to build a digital compass that displays both the direction and cardinal points on a television. Other functionalities were added to complement the sensor interface, such as, temperature display, magnetic declination input and disability option. At the highest level, this project involves acquiring two output readings from
Introduction We created a project in which a user could control the movement of an Etch A Sketch using a typical serial mouse. The public was introduced to the EAS in 1960 and since then it has stayed virtually the same. This nostalgic toy is recognized by many generations and we decided to put a
Introduction Our ultrasonic rangefinder is capable of allowing the user to determine his or her distance from an object or wall. When deciding on what type of project to design and construct, we decided that we wanted to create something that would have some practical use in life. Many groups in the past created video
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Introduction We created a wireless device to affix to the bottom of a pitcher that alerts the wait staff when the pitcher is empty. We used the a priori knowledge that when a pitcher is empty the pitchers bottom is perpendicular to the ground. By affixing an accelerometer to the bottom of a pitcher we
