Monthly Archive: January 2012

Jan
30

Wireless Interface for a Police Cruiser

Over the past few weeks I have been finishing up my senior project work here at Project54. The goal of this project is to have a wireless interface that is capable of controlling police cruiser devices from the outside of the car. Up to this point I have successfully implemented both Bluetooth and Wi-Fi connections …

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Jan
28

Exchange program experience

Train Coder/Decoder

I am Ivan Razumenić, an Electrical Engineering senior exchange student from Serbia. After the eventful first semester at UNH and ECE department, and halfway through the exchange program, I would like to share my experience and hopefully motivate some of you for study abroad programs. I will briefly talk about academic, student life, and cultural aspects …

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Jan
20

Airhockey Game Demo

The project we are working on is a virtual air-hockey game for the Microsoft Surface that utilizes an accelerometer mounted on an arduino to provide easy/realistic control. For more information about our project check out this post: Games for the Microsoft Surface Here is a quick view of what our game will look like: In …

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Jan
20

Accelerometer plotting in MATLAB

The current project I am working on concerns reading data from an accelerometer in order to move a player in an air hockey game being played on the Microsoft Surface. There is a delay in tracking fast movements on the surface which can be an issue when playing a game. The idea is to cut …

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Jan
20

Mapping Data On The Microsoft Surface Within InfoStrat.VE

Over the Winter Break here at Project54 I have had the chance to work on developing an application for the Microsoft Surface. This project uses the InfoStrat Virtual Earth software, which provides an excellent template of an interactive 3D world using Bing Maps. My application uses environmental data (in this demo sediment levels in water). …

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Jan
20

Back in Flight!

After updating my software to use a more efficient method of video stream communication between the drone and the surface, I had a vast number of complications which wound up with a non-responsive drone and software that could do nothing more than lift off and land the drone. After extensive testing, debugging, and reverting some …

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