For the second summer in a row, Devin and I helped with the UNH Keepers Camp. Students ranging from second to fifth grade spend half a day with us exploring electrical engineering. To start off the day, we helped them experiment with different metals and liquids to see which made better batteries. They were really …
Monthly Archive: July 2011
Jul
27
eceblogger: a new look
As some of you might have noticed, eceblogger was accessible only intermittently over the last week or so. The reason? Thanks to the hundreds of fun and informative posts by UNH ECE students, staff, faculty, and our friends and colleagues, our traffic was too much for our old hosting plan. So much so, that we kept …
Jul
15
AR.Drone Quadrotor Flight via Microsoft Surface
While working under Andrew Kun in Project54, I have been researching and developing applications for the Microsoft Surface for my Senior Project. This project has eventual collaboration with other schools and professional groups working toward a multi-touch application which controls a fleet of multiple unmanned aerial vehicles, or UAVs. Other groups have developed similar UAV …
Jul
11
Games for the Microsoft Surface Presentation
My partner Shawn and I gave a presentation a couple weeks ago focused on the games available for the Surface. For our Senior Project we are working on designing a virtual air hockey game for the Microsoft Surface, I will be focusing my work on creating a controller that tracks a users movements and how …
Jul
06
Pupillometry presentation at Driving Assessment 2011
On June 29th I gave a lecture presentation at the Driving Assessment conference held at Squaw Creek Resort on beautiful Lake Tahoe, CA. The title of the talk was Exploring the Influence of Light and Cognitive Load on Pupil Diameter in Driving Simulator Studies. You can find our accompanying conference paper here. After the lecture …