Introduction The goal of this project was to assist the user in learning the proper technique for a physical exercise, in our case a dumbbell bicep curl. As our understanding of biology and anatomy improves, the design of physical exercises is improved by the application of scientific principals and experimental results. For each exercise there […]
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Introduction The Weather Canvas is a robust outdoor weather monitoring system coupled with an indoor LED display. The outdoor system consists of a microcontroller, temperature sensor, humidity sensor, home-made anemometer, a Hot Wheels radar gun modified to measure precipitation, and a solar panel to measure sunlight and charge the microcontrollers power source. Once per minute,
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Introduction We created an RC Car that can identify a parking space and parallel park by itself. The RC Car drives down a street searching for a parking space to its right using a distance sensor. When the car has identified a space, the car checks to see whether that space is large enough to
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Introduction The main idea for our project was to implement an inexpensive solution to the current CU Snake Arm motor-driving system by using a Mega644 microcontroller instead of multiple 3-Amp motor controllers as the snake arm was originally intended to be driven. Since we used DC motors, we implemented a PID control algorithm that determines
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Introduction The “Electric Etch” project takes the classic Etch-a-Sketch® toy and turns it into a non-volatile, continuous-line display capable of drawing the current time and text messages. On the classic Etch-a-Sketch, it is notably difficult to draw shapes by hand that involve elements any more complex than simple horizontal and vertical lines. That’s why we
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Introduction For our final project, we built a mechanism that spun a linear array of seven LEDs at a velocity that made it appear as if a message was being displayed using persistence of vision for the human eye. To accomplish this, we first had to design and build the hardware components, which may have
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1. Introduction We designed an intelligent alarm clock which can be programmed from the computer to speak custom messages and also detect whether the user is on his bed or leaving his room. Sensors are pervasive in industrial, aerospace, and medical fields. Although they can potentially enhance the common person’s everyday-life, they are still seldom
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1 Introduction Black Out is an electronic puzzle game that is a derivative of Lights Out released by Tiger Toys in 1995 but with a few additional twists. The game consists of a 4 by 4 grid of LEDs with each LED having a total of four states (off, red, blue and green). Sixteen
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Introduction As technological devices become more advanced and a bigger part of our daily lives, the user interface of devices is becoming more important; intuitive and modern interface provides a real means of transferring the pure computational power of a device to the user experience. This project focused on exploring the technology behind the next
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OVERALL DESIGN GOAL The overall goal of our project was to recreate the Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) using Atmel Microcontrollers. We decided early on the adding audio to the mix was likely going to be too much work in the time that we had to complete the project. Therefore, we decided to leave all audio
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