Cornell University ECE 476 Microcontroller Design Final Projects

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The following projects were produced in the last month of class at Cornell University during Spring semesters. The students were given the responsibility of choosing their project, then designing and building it. See the assignment for further description.The number next to each project is used for identification only and represents no other ranking.

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• Spring 2006
  1. HDD analog clock with LCD touchscreen
  2. ATMEL Mega32 and Altera FPGA-based 8-bit Video Game Platform

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• Spring 2005
  1. kaOS operating system and loader
  2. Keyboard mania (mpeg 19 Mbyte)
  3. Super Breakout video game (mpeg 1.9 Mbytes)
  4. Jezzball video game
  5. Duckhunt video game (mpeg 2.4 Mbytes)
  6. The Contender video game (mpeg 4.5 Mbytes)
  7. Big Red Juice Mixer (Slashdot article Monday, May 2, 2005)
  8. Color Tetris video game
  9. LightRover – light sensing robot
  10. PPP-Palm
  11. WeatherDog
  12. Virtual Pool (wmv 900 Kbytes) (Circuit Cellar Magazine, Issue #184 November 2005 )
  13. AirMouse
  14. SharpShooter video game
  15. Neural net robot
  16. Wireless Electromyograph
  17. Stepper Motor Indexer & Decoder
  18. Turbidity meter
  19. Human Motion Capture
  20. Accelerometer Mouse
  21. Wireless Telemetry (avi 6 Mbytes) (HackADay Feb 16, 2006)
  22. Portable Security System
  23. Blood Pressure Monitor
  24. Missle Command video game
  25. Super Breakout video game (some images broken)
  26. Breathalyser door lock
  27. Programmable IR receiver and Connect-4 game
  28. MIDI drum controller
  29. Vocal Tuner
  30. RoboDog
  31. PC temperature control
  32. Dungeons of Doom video game
  33. Dual control RC car
  34. Solar Tracker
  35. GPS/inertial guidance
  36. Digger video game
  37. Gauntlet of uComputation
  38. CubeSat Diagnostics board
  39. Digital voice recorder
  40. ISREVER (Reversi) video game
  41. Frequency Division Multiplexing for a Multi-Sensor Wireless Telemetry System
  42. Shooting star video game
  43. Electronic Dartboard
  44. Kasubana electronic flower
  45. Bar Inventory System
  46. Voting Machine
  47. EyeSnake video game
  48. Digital Guitar tuner
  49. Automated Juice Mixer
  50. Mega32 webserver (code)

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• Spring 2004

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  1. Digital Stethoscope (Mpeg of display)
  2. Graduate from Cornell video game
  3. Flat Bed Scanner
  4. Non-orthogonal Plotter (mpeg)
  5. Mouse Painter
  6. Paint with mouse input
  7. Radio Controlled outlet strip
  8. Autonomous navigating robot (mpeg)
  9. Nova Strike video game
  10. Digital Compass
  11. MiniGolf video game with putter
  12. MiniGolf video game (mpeg)
  13. Programmable remote control
  14. Electr-O-Sketch (slashdot article) (Forbes article, follow the Custom Gadgets You Can't Buy link)
  15. Pong²
  16. Ultrasonic Rangefinder
  17. Mega32 Basic
  18. Music Synthesizer with Interactive TV Display
  19. Laser Morse code tutor
  20. Pump It Up audio game
  21. Guitar Tuner
  22. Beverage Monitor (slashdot article)
  23. MP3 radio
  24. Smart blinds
  25. Keypaw
  26. Home Security System
  27. Bar Code Scanner
  28. Implementation of a (31, 16) BCH code on a Microcontroller
  29. Ball Fight Video Game
  30. Breath Alcohol Tester
  31. WinAmp controller
  32. WinAmp Controller
  33. Eye-in-the-sky (mpeg of camera head)
  34. Xylophone
  35. Scorched Earth video game
  36. WonderSwan Development Cartridge
  37. Star Duel video game
  38. Big Red Map (Mpeg of engineering quad)
  39. Missle Command video game
  40. 3D gForce mouse
  41. Stationary Helicopter (mpeg)
  42. Remote control car
  43. Weather Station
  44. BlindBot
  45. Infrared Tracking System

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• Spring 2003
  1. Inverted Pendulum Balancer
  2. Variable Traffic Controller
  3. MazeRunner Video Game
  4. 6502 Emulation on an Atmel Mega32
  5. Electronic Virtual Animal
  6. Arkanoid Video Game
  7. Cantneroid Video Game
  8. Digi-Level
  9. Reversi Video Game
  10. Guitar Special Effects
  11. Tap the Dance
  12. Graphing Calculator
  13. Dartboard with Video
  14. Memory Video Game
  15. Treasure of the High Seas Video Game
  16. PacMan Video Game
  17. SpaceInvaders Video Game
  18. Space Fighter Video Game
  19. Frogger Video Game
  20. MIDI synthesizer
  21. Radio Control Car
  22. Sound Effects Processor
  23. Battleship Video Game
  24. Wireless Keyboard
  25. DuckHunter Video Game
  26. MineSweeper Video Game
  27. Vehicle Performance Meter
  28. Digital Preamplifier
  29. Tetris Video Game
  30. Hockey Video Game
  31. Gray-scale Graphics: Dueling Ships
  32. Connect-4 Video Game
  33. Laser Light Show
  34. Wireless Drawing Device
  35. Laser Communications System
  36. TouchPad Drawing Board
  37. IntelliBot
  38. Sheet Music Generator
  39. TCP/IP
  40. Multi-Zone Fire Alarm System

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• Spring 2002
  1. Scanning Tunneling Microscope
  2. Tic-Tac-Toe on TV
  3. Snake on TV
  4. Hard drive AVR programmer
  5. Audio Frequency Response Analyzer
  6. Line following autonomous car
  7. Safety-sensor vehicle
  8. MP3 Player
  9. MP3 Player
  10. Simon
  11. GPS AmeriMap
  12. Home security system
  13. Voice Activated Alarm Clock
  14. Russianbloc on LCD
  15. Pong on LCD
  16. Pong on oscilloscope
  17. Music Synthesizer
  18. Club Light Controller
  19. Blackjack2go
  20. Blackjack
  21. Globe
  22. Accelerometer Gmouse
  23. Postage meter
  24. Digital Hourglass
  25. Cornopoly on LCD
  26. Phone Dialer
  27. Laser Tag
  28. Robot Cricket
  29. WindCaddy
  30. Hovercraft
  31. Sound targeting
  32. Nintendo 64 to PS/2 Mouse
  33. Golf

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• Spring 2001
  1. Fish: Video Controller
  2. PBX (Private Branch Exchange)
  3. Vertical Plotter
  4. X-Y Plotter
  5. Fertilizer Feedrate Controller
  6. Home Audio Control System
  7. SuperTrain Controller
  8. Digital Mirror Message Machine
  9. MP3 CD SuperJukebox
  10. Pre-emptive Operating System
  11. Wireless Internet Pager
  12. Wireless message Communicator
  13. Robot Arm
  14. Tilt Maze
  15. Ultra-Sonic Parking Assistant
  16. Cooking Coach
  17. BiLines
  18. gEECShip
  19. Graphing Calculator
  20. Web-based AVR Interface
  21. Midi Sequencer Home Automation –>
  22. ECG monitoring system
  23. Autonomous Tank
  24. ZIP drive/Digital Camera

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• Spring 2000
  1. Digital Message Machine
  2. Web-Monitored Thermostat
  3. Analog modem
  4. Robot Arm
  5. Security Entrance System
  6. Radio-controlled Truck
  7. Temperature Datalogger
  8. MP3 player
  9. Pong
  10. Snake 476
  11. Ultimate Alarm Clock
  12. Beat Tracking Strobe
  13. Guitar Special effects: The Shredder
  14. Drum machine and Sequencer
  15. Digital Thermometer
  16. Digital Oscilloscope
  17. Arbitrary Waveform Generator
  18. 8-Trak Sampler
  19. Serial-port game board
  20. Secure RSA Credit Card Transaction System
  21. Mini Area Network
  22. Autonomous Robotic Cricket
  23. Zen Touchpad

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• Spring 1999

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  1. Porche 911 Radio Controlled Car
  2. Autonomous Vehicle
  3. Spectrum Analyser
  4. Real-Time Guitar Tuner
  5. Whack-a-Cap
  6. CU Organizer
  7. Malay Language Learning kit
  8. Fixed point scientific calculator
  9. Etch-a-Sketch
  10. Real-time debugger
  11. VT100 Pong
  12. Home Security System
  13. Infrared Universal Remote Control
  14. Car Alarm System
  15. Hangman
  16. Simon
  17. Simon
  18. Answering Machine
  19. Thermostat
  20. BlackJack
  21. Blackjack
  22. Lego Vehicle
  23. RC car controller
  24. Sinewave Synthesizer
  25. Temperature and Pressure Control
  26. Video Frame Buffer
  • INTEL for their donation of laboratory computers.
  • ATMEL for their donation of development hardware and microcontrollers.
  • FREESCALE for their donation of sensors for final projects

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ECE 476 thanks:

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Count=209,002 on 20 Jan 2006 (Start of spring semsester)
Count=154,852 on 13 May 2005 (End of spring semsester)
Count=131,540 on 26 Jan 2005 (Start of spring semsester)
Count=80,592 on 28 May 2004 (End of spring semsester)
Count=58,950 on 27 Jan 2004 (Start of spring semsester)
Count=37,867 on 8 July 2003
(Reset counter on 10 July 2002)
119,912 hits during 3 May 2000 to 10 July 2002

Copyright Cornell University 2006