2008

Team members: Joel Keesecker Mark Kien Pat Hauser Vigilant Sensing Technologies has conceived of a list of possible applications for a broad band remote sensing application surrounding the public well being. Some of the industries that could benefit from such technology are: public safety, nuclear power, medical, environmental, and general...

Team member: Zach Eichmeyer The Vibrating Probe is a device which detects current densities by vibrating a probe about a micron in amplitude, using a piezo-electric bender/oscillator. The probe output is fed into a lock-in amplifier which allows the probe to be sampled at the same frequency as the bender...

Team members: Paul Kasemir Pavel Mayyak Jeff Shin Tyler Stubbs Our design team will create a home security system that utilizes infrared sensors. There will be a centralized control station that will collect data and monitor all of the sensor nodes. The system will be set up inside and will...

Team members: Sarah Ditlevson Erez Falkenstein Anthony McDougle Nathan Sutton Our team will design a wirelessly powered sensing device that can be embedded in concrete. There will be a base station unit that transmits power, and communicates with the sensor. At the device location there will be two antennas, one...

Team members: Sri Teja Basava Steve Karcher Nada Memic Francis Yi Laser Lattice Associative Multi-touch Product (LLAMP) LLAMP is a product for acquiring touch input simultaneously from multiple sources. A standard LLAMP package consists of a laser grid input system, supporting software, and an audio/visual output system. These components are...

Team members: Elliott Hedman Andrew Leung Jim Lindblom Jordan McConnell Paul Streibrecher We plan on using the hardware within the Lego Mindstorms Robotics kit to help construct a controllable water fountain display. The kit has an ARM processor, memory, and bluetooth hardware. We will be using Lego's hardware and software...

Team members: Brennan Dayberry Adam Marrapode James McGlynn Ben Sufit Chris Taylor Our design goal is to create a virtual racing vehicle cockpit. R-factor and Logitech have already made a forced feedback steering wheel, and we intend to expand that to the seat. The basic idea is to decode the...

Team members: Brandon Gilles James Gorman Eric McIntyre Gabe Thatcher DANDE team members have agreed to take on a project under Space Grant called DANDE which is an acronym for Drag and Atmosphere Neutral Density Explorer. The DANDE satellite that we will be helping with will be used to study...

Team members: Kyle Huston Dan Mackin Farhad Majdeteimouri Ahmad Muhammad Our project will use self-organizing maps (SOM) to model a strand of optical fiber. Essentially, what this entails is shining laser light through a multi-mode fiber-optic strand and recording the resulting speckle pattern using a CCD sensor. The Matlab Image...

Team members: Andrew Cober Dan Crowe Anthony Schubert Ryan Yeash Our goal is to design a device that can be used to keep a ferromagnetic object held in mid air. It will use several electromagnets and optical/ultrasonic sensors along with a closed loop control system to achieve this goal. Initially,...