1. Introduction Sound Bite We created a handheld self-stabilizing camera platform using two high-torque servo motors, a gyroscope, an accelerometer, and a wooden frame. Brief Summary As avid outdoor enthusiasts, we often find ourselves taking action shots of our adventures, only to discover a very shaky and nauseating video of our endeavors at the end […]
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Introduction The most fitting way to explain our final project is to describe it as a smartboard replacer. Through the use of an IR camera, we read the position and movement of an IR LED to interact with a remote laptop. The systems comes with two modes, whiteboard mode and blackboard mode, which can be
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Introduction Our goal in this project was to build a pair of high-speed transceivers that could encode and decode optical signals modulated using Morse code conventions. The project involved a few interesting challenges that we believed would be interesting to tackle. Interfacing a camera with a microcontroller is a difficult thing to do, due to
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Introduction The purpose of this project is to design and to create a persistence of vision (POV) display. This display will allow users to upload an image to be displayed through wireless communication. A persistence of vision (POV) refers to the phenomenon of the human eye in which an afterimage exists for a brief time
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Introduction Motivation The goal of our project is to create a VGA video adapter. This “homemade video card” should be able to connect to any monitor that subscribes to VGA standards with a standard connector and display the desired material reliably. The challenges involved here stem from adapting a general use microprocessor that we are
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Introduction Our project is a two player touchscreen controlled speed chess game. One of our goals for this project is to build a reliable touchscreen device. Our initial plan was to use an LCD and attach LED and phototransistors on opposite sides. However, we determined that most commercial LCDs are small and placing 8 LEDs/8
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We have created a real-time video object tracking / shape recognition device, and a fun game library to demonstrate its abilities. For our project, we wanted to push the video sampling and processing capabilities of the ATmega644 8-bit microcontroller. Using a high-speed analog-to-digital converter as an input device, we were able to sample a reasonably
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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 Using computer vision and rules for a perfect tic tac toe game. We have built a system that would never lose in a fair game (i.e. marking 1 cell per turn) of tic tac toe. The idea is simple, have a camera driven Mega644 system that detects for changes on a Tic Tac Toe
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Introduction: Our project is a two player tilt controlled video game based on the classic Light Cycle arcade game. The purpose of the game is to guide your player through the arena avoiding the boundaries and trails created by you and your opponent. Whichever player causes his or her opponent to crash is victorious. Our
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