MP3-Based Digital Record and Playback Device

Similar in purpose to a recordable CD jukebox, the MP3-based digital record and playback device is a home stereo style device. This device is capable of real-time recording and compression of incoming audio, capable of encoding of CD audio from an incorporated CDROM drive, plays locally stored MP3 files. This device can locally store MP3 files from ISO-9660 CDROMs, and is accessible via a standard FTP network protocol. It is possible to create play lists from local files. Audio input and output connections are in the form of RCA analog audio and S/PDIF digital. This device makes use of DSPs, microcontrollers, hard disk access, CDROM control, development of a custom file system, digital signal sampling, a display controller, user input and output, network management, power fault tolerance, and digital and analog I/O.

Authors

Robert E. Fancsalszki (CprE)
David Govek (CprE)
James Charles Leatherby (CprE)
Thomas Mitchell (CprE)
John David Woods (CprE)
Kenneth Lombard Jr. Reeds (EE)



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A Secure Wireless Interface Between PDAs

The purpose of this project is to develop a wireless interface between two PalmPilot or HandSpring devices using two Motorola Talkabout radios. A third Talkabout-PDA would be used during testing, to try and intercept messages between the first two systems.

Authors

Michael R. Hale (CprE)

Jeremy Lee Kohlhaas (EE)

David J. Inman (CprE)

Hassan Rashid (CprE)

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Communication Device for Handicapped Kids

The purpose of this project is to develop a communication or educational device to assist handicapped children. So the project will develop a single device suitable for use by children with various motor and other challenges. To determine a general set of design requirements, the team will contact various regional government agencies working with handicapped children. A prototype system will be developed and tested by a handicapped child, after the design is complete.

Authors

Brian Patrick Grove (EE)

Stephen Mark Peters(CprE)

Alexander Roscoe Leith (EE)

Ankur Tandon (CprE)

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Immersive Video and Audio Streaming for Collaborative Virtual Environments

An integrated system is developed to support simultaneous connection of immersive environments among geographically located sites.The main component of this system is the ability of sending and receiving video and audio streams integrated in the three-dimensional rendering on the virtual scene.

This project will investigate the current state of video and audio streaming tools, which are mainly focused on web-based transmissions, design a modification/solution for integrating these tools in a three-dimensional scene, and develop a prototype to check  the feasibility of the solution designed.

Authors 

Brandon E.Bausch (CprE)

Galen William Faidley (CprE)

Aaron Joseph Schmidt (CprE)

Huah-Yew Tan (CprE)    

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Temperature Controller for Infrared Paint Curing

Through this project a controller is developed to maintain a constant temperature of a repaired automobile panel for a specified time during repainting. With the recently painted surface, no contact can be made, as it would damage the resultant finish. The heat is provided by a set of infrared lamps to dry the paint. In some case, there are two stages of heating to correctly cure some paints. For instance, a temperature range of 105-110 degrees Fahrenheit is needed for 4-6 minutes to ease the solvents before full heat is applied to finish the curing, which requires a temperature of 140-150 degrees Fahrenheit for 12-15 minutes. The maximum surface area is 4 square feet to be dried at one time.

Authors

 Michael Burman, CprE

 mburman@iastate.edu

 Jonathan Johnson, EE

 jdjohns@iastate.edu

 Matthew McMullen, CprE

 mmcmulle@iastate.edu

 Tom Vedder, EE

 tvedder@iastate.edu

 Mark Wibholm, EE

  wibholmm@iastate.edu

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Computer Security

This purpose of this project is to create a web-based version of the current computer and network attack database. The project entails working with a web server using Linux, writing code in C, HTML, and PERL, downloading and compiling attack software and connect the same to the web database. It is foreseen that the finished software will have broad appeal to all researchers in computer security. Students who choose this project should enjoy designing software systems that present a single easy-to-use interface, but whose implementation is comprised of many different, large and even ill-defined pieces of software.

Author

Mohammed Rehan Ghori (mrehan@iastate.edu)

Shawn Michael Jacobs (sjacobs@iastate.edu)

Said Masood Kashoob (kashoob@iastate.edu)

Hwa Chaw-Law (hwachaw@iastate.edu)

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Personal Medical Assistant

Many people suffer such  medical conditions that they have to take multiple medications more than once a day for long duration of time. If they fail to take these medications on schedule causes significant health consequences. A survey of group of doctors, healthcare providers and patients have completed an ongoing previous project, to determine the desired requirements for a two-part system. A small hand-held device as a first part, which will remind people to take their medications. A set of software as a second part for a personal computer in a doctor's office. When the hand-held device is connected to the personal computer, a medical staff person will enter the medication schedule into the personal computer and download it into the hand-held device. This part of the project will develop an expanded version of the first system. The new system will allow a person to enter vital information, such as blood pressure, pulse, temperature, and blood sugar level into the expanded hand-held device as requested by the doctor at specific times between appointments with the doctor. When prompted by the device, the person would enter the requested information. The recorded information would be retrieved and uploaded to the personal computer in the doctor's office for review by the doctor, during the next appointment with the doctor.

Author

Mark Finn (EE)
Ryan Holdmeyer (CprE) 
Todd Magee (EE)
Benjamin Potter (EE)
Chandra Sellappan (CprE)
Tabitha Smith (CprE)
Melanie Wittry (EE)     

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Content Delivery in Ad-Hoc Wireless Networks

Our present age is the age of fastest communication. Now-a-day wireless technology has become popular. The ability of exchanging information has increasing as fast. Here some examples of technologies implementing ad-hoc network include Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and Zigbee. Our main objective is to establish a communication connection between USRPs, USRP and TelosB Sensors and Sensors to Sensors using Zigbee protocol (IEEE 802.15.4) .The operating broadcasting frequency of this protocol is 2.4GHz. We will implement a star network topology for our sensors networks. We also aim to print useful data obtained from our sensors.

Authors

Wyatt Brenneman
wgbn01@iastate.edu
Taylor McKechnie
thrp1st@iastate.edu
Prashanth Yanamandra
psy@iastate.edu

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Virtualization Education Environment

Our main objective of this project is to make a flexible and stable environment for students to experiments with virtual environments. As we know that virtualization in class is already working but virtual labs do not exist yet. It’s an interesting challenge, as the students will be interacting with their own virtual machines on top of virtual one provided. Since the students are expected to realistically test the performance of different approaches, the performance of our system is important. 

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Remote Laboratory for Wireless Network Security

The course teaches the concept that may be difficult without practical implementations. By introducing a laboratory element it becomes easy for students to understand the concept of their course, they could also perform safe and security sensitive experiments in the controlled environment. The system consists of hardware implementation to support wireless security system and laboratory experiments designed to complement the lecture material. Students will be able to perform experiments on their own they can also be guided through structured laboratory procedures; virtualization will be used to support many hardware machines on one physical host. This reduces cost and increase system efficiency. Machines can be divided in to two groups, one machine creating legitimate traffic on a network while another performs any number of operations on it. Labs will be attempted to investigate vulnerabilities in primary Wi-Fi but also Bluetooth. Labs in other wireless standards will be enabled by utilizing software defined radios.

Authors

 Anthony LoBono, Mike Steffen, Shishir Gupta

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Circuit Placement with Multi-Core Processors

Circuit position is the runtime blockage in the VLSI design flow. A quicker placement tool would be very precious because it aids circuit designers to reduce the design time. This project looks at the use of mutli-core processors to accelerate circuit placement. A multi-thread execution of a sequence placement algorithm will be developed and checked on a multi-core system.

  

Team Members

Grant Furguiele, Team Leader
Mikhail Drob, Webmaster
Benjamin Winters, Communications Liason

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Designing tandem junction cells for a higher heat environment

With the current lack of silicon accessibility researchers around the world have been seeming for new ways in which they can optimize the performance of silicon based photovoltaics. It is with this idea in mind that we have selected to follow thin film amorphous silicon as an alternative of the commonly used, yet more pricey, crystalline silicon solar cells. Our design is based on the idea that an amorphous silicon (a-Si) device will carry out better than that of a crystalline (c-Si) device at remarkably advanced temperatures. We have broken down the three major features of our final project design below for a more in-depth design portrayal.

Team Members

Kyle Veugeler

Dan Congreve

Jay Eggenberger

Madeline Oglesby

Kang Kang

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Marching Band Visualization

This project was designed to appendage a marching band presentation with visual effects that will be created with LED light emitted from the shako of a marching band uniform.

Wireless communication will be facilitated by Xbee units connected to a microcontroller, which will control a LED accessory connected to the main unit.

 Team Members

 Nick Edwards

Electrical Engineering

641-344-8726

benny34@gmail.com

Paul Fiegen

Computer Engineering

563-889-0800

fiegenp@iastate.edu

Dan Hinz

Electrical Engineering

712-621-0139

djhinz@gmail.com

Arthur Padget

Electrical Engineering

319-404-4824

arthurpadget@gmail.com

Timothy Simpson

Computer Engineering

319-321-1452

daiceman@iastate.edu

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