Phy120B Final Projects Demo
2:00pm Friday 10-Dec-2010
3574 Mayer HallHall

This course involves practicums on data acquisition and control using microprocessors for the first 5 weeks; and then students spend the next 5 weeks in teams of ~2 developing and building a project of their choice.

The theme might be described as "just go for it", with the only requirement being that the project detect something in the real world, process the information, and control something in the real world. About half the projects use embedded PIC microprocessors; some use PC-scale computers, some are not computer-based.

The Earl Dolnick Best Project Award(s) are decidedd by Student vote.

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. *** Award *** The MIDI Glove: Music at your fingertips
by Sam Stanwyck

7. *** Award *** 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