For our design project, we decided to replicate the video game known as Scorched Earth: The Mother of All Games where two tanks fire missiles at one another by adjusting angles and power while adjusting for variable wind. The objective of Scorched Earth is to destroy the enemy tank before your tank is destroyed. Two […]
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Introduction For my ECE 476 Design Project, I built Missile Command using the Atmel Mega 32 microcontroller. My version of Missile Command is based on Ataris 1981 version. After looking at some of the past ece476 final projects, I noticed no one had tried to build Missile Command. This game was one of my favorites
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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 Sound Bite We implemented a black-and-white video (TV) game adaptation of the old DOS classic known as Digger, by Windmill Software. Summary On the Game Start screen, a choice between a multiplayer mode and an AI mode is offered. The multiplayer mode supports three players simultaneously for the Digger and both Nobbins. In the
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Introduction Our project is an electronic voting system. The system allows for quick and accurate voting electronically. The system uses a client/server architecture, which allows voters to cast ballots on the client terminal. Each client interfaces with the server, which keeps track of the entire system. High Level Design Our design is broken up into
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Introduction For our final project, we have decided to build a minesweeper game with a microcontroller and a PS/2 mouse to be displayed on the TV. Minesweeper is a famous game that comes with the MS-Windows operating system, and the objective of the game is to determine the location of mines on the board. Minesweeper
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Introduction: For our final project, we want to build a wireless drawing device. The user uses a keypad or a mouse to draw on the TV through a wireless communication medium (RF – 433.92 MHz). The user should be able to move the drawing pointer to anywhere within the four border lines. One should also
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Adventures in TV land The goal of this project was to play a simple game outputted to a television via direct NTSC signal generation into a composite video input of a television. Obviously, the outputting of material to a television is the most challenging part of this project (and not one to be taken
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TV Pixels and Your Brain Let’s start at the beginning with a quick note about your brain. There are two amazing things about your brain that make television possible. By understanding these two facts, you gain a good bit of insight into why televisions are designed the way they are. The first principle is this:
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Closed captioning can be extremely helpful in at least three different situations: It has been a great boon to hearing-impaired television viewers. It can also be helpful in noisy environments. For example, a TV in a noisy airport terminal can display closed captioning and still be usable Some people use captions to learn English or
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