========= Spring 2000 =================================== Reg Armistead, Pete Weintraub -- FARTS: Forward Area Recon & Termination System William Hardin, Kevin Williams, Michael J. Martin -- A Range-Finding Cannon Xylar Asay-Davis, William Cross, Benjamin Lynch -- LOBSTER Chat 3000: Laser Operated Bi-directional Signal Transfer with Error Reduction Rafi Hanna -- FALCON : Free Air Laser Conversation detector Daniel Queen, Greg Stiesberg -- *Obstacle Avoiding Robot Michael F. Martin, Andrew Heninger -- The Christmas Present Shaker Jason Arcand, Stephen Lynch, Shivani Singh -- DSP Sound Zapper Philip Seliger, Stephen Young -- *PICy Lego Locomotion Tom Morrison, Nathan Whittenton -- RASCAL: An X-Y Positioning Machine, which developed into SpotBot http://www.arrayit.com/Products/Microarrayers/Microarrayer_SpotBot_2/microarrayer_spotbot_2.html ========== Winter 2001 ==================================== Brian Youngblood, Blanca Zauscher -- Electric Hamster: A PIC-based sphereical robot with sonar David Hecht, Nikhil Murthy, -- DANCING LIghts: Performance art from a randomized PIC Ethan Duni, Silvia Keller, -- Phone Phriend: ET call home and turn out the lights Jennifer Wang, Noble Woo, -- Optical BMD: PC-based image acquisition, target recognition, and photon launch David Evers, Sonia Paluchowski, -- Robo-Bar: Keypad orders, PIC smarts, rotated not stirred. Pablo Chee, -- Snake Heaven: Very PIC'y climate control and display *** AWARD *** Jason Jeffries (TA), Greg Stiesberg (TA), Nozomi Nishimura (TA), Earl Dolnick (Staff), Fred Driscoll (Prof) ========= Winter 2002 ==================================== Anthony Bellora, Doublas Bird, Daniel Bricarello, Frank Cerimele, Ryan Flarity, Mark Fralick, David Galvan, Dean Hidas, Pamela Joseph, Rogelio Lepe, Robert Lynch, Leah Powers, Michael Przybylski, John Rickgauer, Jeremy Rode, Leonel Romero, Edward Soon, Jennifer Tan, David Toy, Denise Tung, Ka Chun Wu, Brue Yen, Jonathan Ziegler, Kevin Rigg (TA), Jason Jeffries (TA), Earl Dolnick (Staff), Fred Driscoll (Prof), ========== Winter 2004 ==================================== Kevin Cockrell, Rory Downs, Michael Duffy, Eric Duke, Anthony LaVista, Vincent Lapietra, Warren Mar, Kyle Maxwell, John McCurley, Christopher Melancon, Duc Ong, Kenneth Panici, Timothy Perram, Paothep Pichanusakorn, Vincent Rye, Jason Sadural, Steven Tong, Meghan West, Liwei Zhang, Doug Smith (Prof), Tom Driscoll (TA) ========= 2004 =========================================== Keith Albrecht, Hovig Bayandorian, Carey Briggs, Michael Chen, Zhi Chen, Alex Clemesha, Adam Egger, Reinstein Esoy, Peter Frausto, Evan Friis, Eliot Gann, Alexander James, Deborah Kane, Xia Lee, Semeon Litvin, Christopher Melton, Jonathan Melton, Benjamin Migliori, Micah Miller, Evan Million, Mark Monti, David Myer, Andrew Powell, Dorian Raymer, Nareg Sinenian, Aaron Smith, Daniel Ventura, Miguel Villalobos, Richard Wagner, Gregg Dobrowalski (TA) Jonathan Driscoll (TA) Earl Dolnick (Engineer) Fred Driscoll (Prof) ========= Winter 2005 ================================== C. Fred Driscoll (Prof), Dan Creveling (TA), Tom Driscoll (TA), Earl Dolnick (Computer Engineer) Allen White (Electronics Engineer) 1_*AWARD* Balancing the broomstick: a race-trike scoots back and forth under a tippy 2-meter stick. Can it also "do the jig"? by Jason Boyer, Micah Miller, Mark Monti 2_ Incoming "missiles" are tracked with ultrasonics, and an electromagnetic projectile cannon is aimed for intercept. (Star Wars accuracy, at least) by Ezekiel Bhasker, Daniel Wang 3_ CCD camera views a stripe in the road to steer a path-following car, for application to NATCAR competition (UC Davis/National Semiconductor) in May05. by Puneet Khattar 4_*AWARD* "GNARLY" GPS Navigated Autonomous Rover Loves You. Autonomous rover (car) accepts destination coordinates, reads GPS signals, and guides itself to target; hazard avoidance optional. Alex James, Ben Migliori, Dave Myer, Nareg Sinenian-Gerdabad 5_ Laser-based rangefinder does it the hard way, measuring the phase shift of an amplitude modulation, at 1 billionth of a second per foot. by Nick Comfoltey, Constantine Karastamatis 6_ An autonomous Helium Blimp is piloted via the wireless internet, using an embedded PDA to control two up/down left/right pivoting propellers. ($ Thank you, U.S. Grant program $) by Eliot Gann, Dorian Raymer 7_ Magnetic detection of tuning fork vibration allows frequency calibration and reconstruction of musical tones from a speaker. by Alexander Schafgans, Geoffrey So 8_*AWARD* Hall effect sensors control the levitation and movement of a magnet being pursued by other objects on a PIC-controlled conveyor belt. ($ Thank you, U.S. Grant program $) by Peter Frausto 9_ A computer aims a USB-based camera so that images of "stars" are tracked accurately. by Kyle Armour, Kory James, Stella Kim 10_ A rotating ultra-sonic transmitter and sensor detects echoes to map out the surrounding environment (more "batty" than SONAR?) by Zhi Chen, Miguel Villalobos 11_ PIC-robot steers and balances a child's bicycle, by reading gyroscopes and accelerometers. (Training wheels, anyone?) by Alex Clemesha, Evan Friis 12_ Computerized shower (!!) with keypad control and LCD display of water flow and temperature (parental control of timing and singing optional). by Carey Briggs, Xia Lee 13_ Ping-Pong Cannon, Tom Driscoll (TA) ========= 2005 ========================================= Ash Tripathi (TA), Ben Migliori (TA), Allen White (Engineer), Fred Driscoll (Prof) 1_Train Timer : can a PIC outwit the Physics 11 train bombers? by Albert Chang and Song Yang 2_Thermal Controller : for PIC'y cookin' by Michael Way 3_Motor Step Counter : Counting millions of steps takes patience or a PIC. by Raphael Shapiro 4_Levitating Globe : "He who controls magnetism controls the World" [Dick Tracy] by Dominic Selvo 5_*AWARD*_ L.I.L.L.I. -- Laser Infrared Light Locating Instrument, aka "The Eye". by Vincent Lee and Jonathan Lim 6_Simon : Beeps and flashes ?say what? by Mark Gleed and Ben Yukich 7_Circuit City: Stop, Walk, GoGoGo Firetrucks ! by Tram Dang and Courtney S. 8_Minesweeper Beta : little PIC meets the big-screen LCD. by Eric Clark and Colin McElroy 9_DSP Sound Applications : Data in, data out at the speed of sound? by Jeremy Myslinski and John Rolando 10_Hot Rod PIC : yes, but does it really go? by Kevin Smith and Phillip Traver 11_Range Detectector : a foot per millisecond each way. by Phillip Gomes and Columbine Robinson 12_Car of the Future : PICs see stoplights, but do they care? by Martha Coakley and Kristin Kulas 13_OCULIS : Omnidirectional Computerized Ultrsonic Local Imaging System -- a "batty" form of radar? by Matt Bibee and Brent Wheelock 14_Harmony : creating aural harmony from sinusoidal simplicity. by Jon Berney and Maxwell Kerber 15_*AWARD*_PIRATE : Programmable Intelligent Roaming Autonomous Thalassic Electronic submersible roams the bathtub, sensing depth, direction and ?rubber duckies? by Nick Hedberg, Brian Maertz, David Stahnke, Andy Stewart ========= Winter 2006 ====================================== C. Fred Driscoll (Prof), Gregg Dobrowalski (TA), Tom Driscoll (TA), Allen White (Electronics Engineer) 1,2 PIRATE, roaming 20,000 micro-leagues under Canyonview pool --- Four independent thrusters, compass and depth navigation, problematical datalink, rocket launchers --- Andy Stewart, David Stahnke Brian Maertz, Nicholas Hedberg *** Earl Dolnick Award Winner *** 3. eyePod. A computerized somnographic alarm clock. Brent Wheelock, Matt Bibee 4. Mighty Mouse: Who's the boss here? Martha Coakley, Kristin Kulas 5. Army of Two: precursor to a swarm for the Ages. Jon Lim, Neeraj Kapoor 6. Soap-In-Hand: Dispensing without hassle. Maxwell Kerber 7. Foosball-O-Matic: They said it couldn't be done! --- Optical ball tracking, rapid paddle placement, energetic thumper produces a PIC microprocessor playing with/against itself, successfully. Avi Thomas *** Earl Dolnick Award Winner *** 8. IEEE Robo-Magellan, definitely the Governator's choice. Andrew Chan, Joseph Formanes, Daniel Leu 9. Hovercraft: Much Sturm und Drang, and some level-headedness. Matthew North, Gonzalo Ceja 10. The Dog that Graduated from Yale: Just whistle, master! Noah Myers, Ethan Brown, Dan Keeler 11. Portable Ethernet (RJ45) Tester; Category 5 or Cat0 ? Travis Bottalico, Charles Cheung 12. Laser Harp: Airy photons to ephemeral phonons. Catherine Noble, Kevin McCarthy 13. Getaway Car: Whistle means scram! Tram Dang, Colin McElroy 14. The Quicksilver Glider: Power + Altitude + Pic = ? Eric Clark, Courtney S., Phillip Traver 15. Laser Distance Ranger: Triangulation to the bottom of the pool. Aldo Monges, Semeon Litvin 16. The Comeback Kid: Roll Out the Barrel... Woah Dude! Kristin Phillips, Lars Johansson 17. Remote Control Rover: 4-wheel drive by Pic Scott Lee, Maryam Ghochani 18. PIC Cow: Ruminating without grass. Keith Chan ========= Fall 2006 ======================================= C. Fred Driscoll (Prof), Dan Creveling (TA), Gregg Dobrowalski (TA), Tom Driscoll (TA), Allen White (Electronics Engineer) 1. Adam Arvay, Philip Thai -- Giant Laser Harp: Plucking laser beams gives notes; smoke helps you visualize the music. 2. David Eldon, Jake Streeter, Utako Ueda -- Illuminated Threat Identification and Elimination System: Pistol-packing robot arm seeks bright spots & terminates them with air-soft pellets. *** Earl Dolnick AWARD *** 3. Chris Malotte, Yossof Eshaq -- Whistle-Controlled Car -- Whistled pure tones control the steering of a car. 4. Patrick Johnson, Nathan Labadie -- iSLEUTH -- Interference Spy Laser Eavesdropping Utensil: Two last beams bounce off a vibrating window, giving coherence fringes that reproduce the nearby sound. *** Earl Dolnick AWARD *** 5. Nicholas Baker, Tyler Burch -- PIC-controlled Theramin -- The height of one hand determines tone, the other determines volume, with continuous or discretized tonality. 6. Andre Gomez, Rikiya Yoshida -- BBV: Balancing Booze Vehicle -- A serving platform is tilted as the car accelerates & climbs hills, spilling not a drop. 7. Ryan Fields, Bruce Thayre -- A Maze-ing Car -- A car navigates a maze using IR proximity sensors and the "right-hand-rule". 8. Morgan Brown, Byron Ho -- Alarm Clock with Voice-Actuated Off and Snooze; Warning, lazy people should use with discretion. 9. Gerald Sanders, Steven Williams -- Motion Tracking Turrett -- Parallel laser beams track & straddle a moving reflector. 10. Allison Bretana, Kristina Pistone -- Keypad Piano -- Record & play back your favorite tunes. 11. Christopher Bishop, Lucas Cota -- Motion-Activated Air Freshener Systems: Don't waste freshener on an empty house. 12. Melvin Pascoguin, Calvin Tangsirichareon -- M&M Color Sorter -- Tri-color LED illumination checks color, paddle sweeps it into rotating bins. 13. Nima Ghods, Gabe Graham -- Magnetic Levitation -- Analog or digital feedback stabilizes a levitated magnet, and the digital system can even dance a jig! *** Earl Dolnick AWARD *** ========= 2007 ======================================= C. Fred Driscoll (Prof), David Eldon (TA), Alex James (TA), Allen White (Electronics Engineer) 1. Alex Mackenzie -- Capacitive seismic sensor and readout 2. Mike Tarango -- Robo Guitar: PIC'n and frett'n meets Jimi Hendrix 3. Mike Schoff -- PIC-Remote Controlled Car 4. Jason Barnett and Miki Kelley -- Sound analyzer and lights display 5. Jordan Gosselin and Junaid Fatehi -- Beer Pong: Rat-trap catapults into targets 6. Brice Dorman and Gabriel Holliday -- Helicopter from Hell: Accelerometers and gyros, 4 motors! *** Earl Dolnick AWARD *** 7. Torch Tank: Seek and destroy army men *** Earl Dolnick AWARD *** 8. Alex Dooraghi, Matt La Fontaine and Chris Lee -- GameBox: A pattern recognition gaming unit with 2 game options and varying difficulty 9. Ka Shing Lau, Ihab Kahayal and James Gray -- Sound Tracking 10. Trevor Stavropoulos and Adrian Fontanilla -- Smart Piggy Bank: Coin detection, tally and display 11. Agnieszka Cieplak and Daniel Lee (with AstroClub) -- Telescope Tracker: Encoders, GPS, accelerometer, I see stars! 12. Jennifer (Tram) Duong and Jennifer Savell -- Mad Bomber Game: Find correct wires to "cut" before PIC bombs 13. John Clover and Nate Fuller -- Laser/InfraRed Audio Link 14. Robert Peterson and Matt Remond -- Solar hot-dog cooker: Follow the sun for optimal cookin' =============================== 2008 =============================================== C. Fred Driscoll (Prof), Tram Dang (TA), David Eldon (TA), Allen White (Electronics Engineer) 1. Scott Gustafson and Thomas Tran -- The AutoPark: Can sensors automate parallel parking? 2. Collin Harrison -- Beer on Track: Fill 'em up and deliver ASAP 3. Adam Jones and Lauren Krantz -- Motion Tracking Camera, using passive infra-red sensors 4. Adityer Kher, Mike Simmonds and Rami Vanguri -- Touch-Screen Mouse, using active photo-detection *** Earl Dolnick AWARD *** 5. Ben Ou -- Star Tracker: Motorized tilting with the stars 6. Clarissa Gillman and Dallas Smith -- The Hostile Pet Tank: Proximity sensing to keep Master in range 7. George Megally and Jeff Koch -- Musical LEDs: Just what does music look like? 8. Brennan Pursley and Alex Frenzel -- A Mazing Platform Game, full of timed joy-stick challenges 9. Travis Hornung, Joseph McClenaghan and Alex Noble -- Magnetic Launcher: Putting capacitive power into metal projectiles 10. Edmund Dale and Lindell Abril -- Knight Rider, A light-tracking car 11. Gregg Mills and Joshua Widen -- *muludneP* ...because it's an inverted pendulum, on a track *** Earl Dolnick AWARD *** 12. Mark Hamilton -- Keypad Thingie interfaces with PIC 13. Matthew Costa and Lawrence Leung -- Robo Hand: Five fingers under Frankenstein control 14. Brian Baumgartner and Ben Morimoto -- Wall E: Approach voices, deliver insults to men, pick-ups to women 16. Jeff Compton -- The Gravitometer: Times the Fall, calculates and displays "G" ========== 2009 ================================================ C. Fred Driscoll (Prof), Tom Murphy (Prof) Tram Dang (TA), Michael Simmonds (TA), Allen White (Electronics Engineer) 1. The Holosphere : building colorful illusions. Music is separated into 3 frequency channels, then the channel strengths drive Red, Green, & Blue LEDs on a rotating plexiglass arc. Scott Goodrow & T. Brandon Stevenson 2. Air Guitar: Accelerated & Padded MIDI A hand-held accelerometer serves as the guitar pick, and a keypad replaces the guitar frets, enabling single notes and chords. The notes are translated to MIDI commands and sent to a synthesizer. Narek Amirbekian & Kotomi Kawakami 3. EMAG Digital Thermal Cuff: How's your blood flow? Digital thermal probes measure finger temperatures on two hands, as a blood-pressure cuff is inflated and deflated, to ascertain circulatory health. Amir Gonzalez & Everardo Maya-Ramos 4. Sun Seeker : Optimizing the angle A solar panel is rotated towards the sun for optimal power, using IR photodetectors front & back. Truong Dang 5. I-Roam: Infra-Red Detection on Wheels Coherent detection of a 40-Hz infra-red "sender" enables a motorized "minion" to follow its master. Adrian Caudillo 6. KARR: A self-preserving vehicle senses parking-lot nightmares Infra-red proximity detectors detect obstacles fore and aft. Jonathan He & Jeffrey Sung 7. Bicycle Auto Shifter, for pedal rate constancy Magnetic sensing of pedal rotation rate, handlebar choice of manual or auto shifting, motorized actuation of derailleur, and direct sensing of derailleur position. Greg Dupraw & Eric Kappe 8. Fire Punch: The power of the Sun in your hand An accelerometer within a boxing glove measures initial stroke, and force sensors on a punching pad measure strength of impact. WWF-approved flame amplitude and duration ensues. Sebastian Tabrizzi & Jayson Ehm 9. **AWARD** The Drunken Snow Monkey : Automated Fire Extinguisher, with 360 Degree Rotating Infrared Fire Detection and Control Monkey rotates continuously, with a digital pyrometer to detects ambient temperature; fire temperatures result in warning lights, horn, and then extinguishing powder. Repeated as necessary. Michael Natisin & Calvin Patel 10. **AWARD** LASER (Location Activated Scientific Exernal Remote) Your head motion points a laser, drives a car USB camera images are fed to a PC-based MatLab processor, which performs a correlation between intial and current images to determine motion of the head. Head motion points laser or steers a car. Megan Jones & Jonathan Peebles 11. Foosbie : Foosball Goal and Game Scorekeeper Sallee Klein Balls on goal interrupt laser beams, PIC microprocessor tallies and displays Ball Scores and Game Scores. 12. Coffee Temperature Regulator : Centrigrade, Rankine?, Perfecto ! Sarah Garcia & Kevin Duggento User selects desired coffee temperature; Digital optical pyrometer takes coffee temperature and controls heater. 13. Automatic Ultrasonic Controlled Car Jeff Dost & Erica Pantel Car detects direction of 40kHz ultra-sonic sender, and follows obediently. 14. Bioreactor Data Logger : 8- and 32-bit power, real-lab implementation Robert Van Nice 8-bit and 32-bit microprocessors are enlisted to record actuations in a student-developed bioreactor. 15. **Best single-person Project** Audio Synthesizerr : analog-smooth VCOs, envelopes Magnus Heinz Playing Casio keys silently generates MIDI commands; MIDI is interpreted by a PIC microprocessr, which controls DAC voltages for analog envelope and waveform generators, to synthesize the requested tones. 16. Snake the Game : Joystick & LEDs, pretty retro ! Jack Yee & Roger Alcaraz An x-y joystick commands the PIC microprocessor to generate a moving snake on an 8x8 array of LEDs, Snake must eat an LED apple before eating itself, despite an ever-increasing slither rate. =========== 2010 ========================================================================================== Phy120B Final Projects Demo 2:00pm Friday 10-Dec-2010 3574 Mayer HallHall C. Fred Driscoll (Prof), Tram Dang (TA), Michael Natisin (TA), 1. The AutoCat Fud Dispenser Sean Harrington & Allison McCrea 2. The Binary-to-Decimal Converter Afif Elghraoui 3. Temperature Regulated Vaporizer Charles Neill 4. The Trojan Infra-Red Wireless Mouse Thingie Andrew Crooks 5. The Coin Sorter : Leggo my change! LLuvia Rodriguez & Chase Burke 6. The MIDI Glove: Music at your fingertips Sam Stanwyck 7. The Musical "Lite-Brite" Veronica Burnett and Sarah Logsdon 8. Touchy Control of an LED Grid Lee Dang & Zach Geiger 9. Sous Vide with Tight Temperature Control Jennifer Lee & Kimberly Pineda 10. Thermal Control of a High Performance Computer John Dougherty & Nicholai Yonan