Sparks Posted May 27, 2010 Report Share Posted May 27, 2010 Hi guys and gals, next year is my last year in university and I need to a major individual project on a subject of my choice. so here is when you lot come in, I am in need of ideas on different projects I could do. I can do practically anything I want to do with electronics. for example, when your alarm clock goes off in the morning it will send a signal over blue-tooth that will turn on your kettle, so by the time you are up your kettle will be ready to use, this is a rather easy example. Another harder example may be a burglar alarm with a laser beam that once the laser beam is broke will send a text message to your mobile phone alerting you of the time and place it had occurred. the reason why I am asking now is because I can then do some research over the summer before I go back to uni at the end of the year. So peeps use your imagination and lets see what you come up with Any ideas and/or help will be appreciated. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
valkyries Posted May 27, 2010 Report Share Posted May 27, 2010 wow sounds interesting i'll get my thinking cap on xxxx Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kells xx Posted May 27, 2010 Report Share Posted May 27, 2010 sensors around the house that as soon as you walk through the door at certain times, activates the cappacino machine,sets the oven to warm up for dinner, and with timers will set the bath going and warm up bath towels and the kettle for horlicks, also either warm or cool your bedroom and switch lights on and off Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sparks Posted May 27, 2010 Author Report Share Posted May 27, 2010 sensors around the house that as soon as you walk through the door at certain times, activates the cappacino machine,sets the oven to warm up for dinner, and with timers will set the bath going and warm up bath towels and the kettle for horlicks, also either warm or cool your bedroom and switch lights on and off maybe could use clapping sensors, and light sensors so when it goes dark it will turn the lights on automatically????? i like you ideas these could be done quite easily :up: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kells xx Posted May 27, 2010 Report Share Posted May 27, 2010 thanks like a wallace and gromit set up lol Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sparks Posted May 27, 2010 Author Report Share Posted May 27, 2010 thanks like a wallace and gromit set up lol ye something like wallace and gromit lol where your house is fully automated........ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kells xx Posted May 27, 2010 Report Share Posted May 27, 2010 and husky nose push button that deliver, food and water and toys Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sparks Posted May 27, 2010 Author Report Share Posted May 27, 2010 ye could do that, and once it has supplied the food, it could play a message of your voice so ur dog will know it is coming from you Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kells xx Posted May 27, 2010 Report Share Posted May 27, 2010 yh like in my silly high screechy voice reserved for my dogs it can say 'foodies' lmao Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rosemary Posted May 27, 2010 Report Share Posted May 27, 2010 Marc, you can use my house for your project - I won't mind Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sparks Posted May 27, 2010 Author Report Share Posted May 27, 2010 Marc, you can use my house for your project - I won't mind sounds like a deal, my uni can pay for me to come to south africa then :D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rosemary Posted May 27, 2010 Report Share Posted May 27, 2010 Yes - anything to help you struggling students - as long as I get to keep all the electronical wonders you come up with though Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andy Posted May 27, 2010 Report Share Posted May 27, 2010 Hey Marc, you are aware of induction mats you can use to charge mobile phones without cables. OK now imagine the whole house induction powered. The Kitchen worktops all fitted with induction grids all appliances then become wireless powered. Movemthe kettle or toaster or microwave or electric can opener wherever and simply use them. . .no need for wires n cables put it where you want and switch it on. living room . . .TV, stereo, PC all induction powered and add wireless comms between them for true wireless equipment. Imagine the revolution as the rats nest of cables. . . GONE !!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sparks Posted May 27, 2010 Author Report Share Posted May 27, 2010 Hey Marc, you are aware of induction mats you can use to charge mobile phones without cables. OK now imagine the whole house induction powered. The Kitchen worktops all fitted with induction grids all appliances then become wireless powered. Movemthe kettle or toaster or microwave or electric can opener wherever and simply use them. . .no need for wires n cables put it where you want and switch it on. living room . . .TV, stereo, PC all induction powered and add wireless comms between them for true wireless equipment. Imagine the revolution as the rats nest of cables. . . GONE !!! that is an awesome idea, will defo look into this, see if i can do it. Would be awesome tho :up: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sparks Posted May 27, 2010 Author Report Share Posted May 27, 2010 a little research and found this, it a flow charge of how it would work...... flow chart here is the external charging unit...... External unit and the internal charging unit...... Internal unit a little adaptation and i could implement this into a design i guess Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andy Posted May 27, 2010 Report Share Posted May 27, 2010 I think the main problem will be current induction mats work on quite low voltage. . .so ramping up that level of induction with out generating massive amounts of static. . . . Also in phones its the battery that is charged So each appliance will need to either be converted to a battery which charges from the induction. . . Or the induction grid will need to be able to generate 240 volts safely and the appliance can draw realtime full power from the grid Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andy Posted May 27, 2010 Report Share Posted May 27, 2010 choose an standard household appliance and demosnstrate the idea on just one . . . By default the examiners will be able to see it working for all appliances. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sparks Posted May 27, 2010 Author Report Share Posted May 27, 2010 ye it only generates 5V of charging power in that circuit. so i will need to look into it more to generate 240V Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sparks Posted May 27, 2010 Author Report Share Posted May 27, 2010 choose an standard household appliance and demosnstrate the idea on just one . . . By default the examiners will be able to see it working for all appliances. ye that is what i think i will do, as i have a set time to get this down and if i try to much at the start i may not finish in time. Thanks for the Awesome idea tho :D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sarah Posted May 27, 2010 Report Share Posted May 27, 2010 my head hurts how about a robot that will do simple things for you like making you a brew / ironing lol Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sparks Posted May 27, 2010 Author Report Share Posted May 27, 2010 my head hurts how about a robot that will do simple things for you like making you a brew / ironing lol making a robot is mostly programming and it gets boring after a while lol plus i would get very angry when it didnt work lol anyway we have plenty of people who can iron and make a brew lmao :D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sarah Posted May 27, 2010 Report Share Posted May 27, 2010 oi !! Put the kettle on Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sparks Posted May 28, 2010 Author Report Share Posted May 28, 2010 so here is the simple idea of inductive charging. it is simply a transformer, you connect the primary windings to the mains, you then place the second windings in parallel with the first, once this happens a current is induced across the second windings thus creating voltage which is used to power a circuit. here a little video to show what i mean...... http://www.youtube.c...feature=related then is you times this by about 10-15 you can then recharge an electrical car, here is a video to show the concept...... http://www.youtube.c...h?v=RnePffoZs_k Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sparks Posted June 23, 2010 Author Report Share Posted June 23, 2010 well peeps i have just received the list i may have to pick from to do my final year project, so which 1 do you think sounds the best, and will be most interesting????? here the list - 1 Simulation of BER performance of frequency selective Rician Mobile radio channels 2 Development of two dimensional ray tracing simulation model for broadband wireless personal and mobile radio channels with multiple successive internal reflection modelling 3 Simulation of BER performance for indoor mobile radio channels using ray tracing 4 Automatic Pattern identification/recognition using the n-tuple technique in LabView 5 Effective LED dimming System 6 Battery management Architectures for Hybrid/Electrical Vehicles 7 Human Posture monitoring system in a work environment 8 MIS - Management of Information System for business online transactions 9 Solar Energy provision for typical public buildings or leisure facilities 10 Porting the code (software) developed for the Collision avoidance of pilotless programmable autonomous motor vehicles project into RTOS such as uCOS II or similar 11 Solar Energy control of Solar panels guidance systems 12 Function generator based upon an embedded system 13 An embedded system based signal analyser 14 PAD Based Hygiene Audit System for a Hospital 15 Analysing sporting performance via GPS 16 A Wood Kiln controller 17 Real-Time Computer Position Control of Servo Systems 18 Real-Time Computer Position Control of Servo Systems via the Internet 19 Real-Time Computer Level Control of Water Tanks via the Internet 20 Real-Time Computer Speed Control of Electrical Motors via the Internet 21 Real-Time Computer Temperature Control of Heating Systems via the Internet 22 Development of a sonogram processor core for the processing of medical ultrasound signals 23 Performance evaluation of a VHDL Open Source Ethernet controller 24 Evaluation of high-speed hardware multipliers - fixed and floating point 25 Evaluation of Samba V4 as an Open Source replacement for Active Directory 26 Design and verification of a JPEG compression/decompression core, for embedded image processing applications 27 DSP model for processing Laser Doppler Signals 28 Design and implementation of a decision support system for medical diagnosis of musculoskeletal deformities 29 Design and implementation of the search engine for e-commerce application using click-tracking network approach 30 Product recommender engine for e-commerce website based on combined item-based and collaborative filtering algorithm 31 Design and implementation of the match-making algorithm for a social network site 32 Statistical Analysis measured and simulated data in a time dynamic vegetation channel 33 Highly stabilised adjustable power supply for Gunn diode oscillators 34 Dynamic wideband vegetation channel simulation for modulated signals using QAM, OFDM etc 35 Transient filter for power supply for Gunn diode oscillators 36 Evaluation of 4G simulator and integrating dynamic vegetation model 37 OFDM Performance over 60GHz Multipath Channel 38 VHDL Behavioural Simulation of M-QAM Transceiver 39 Coding for Wireless Communication Systems 40 Simulink-based Simulation of Quadrature Amplitude Modulation (QAM) System over multipath channel 41 Design & Development of an automated test system to characterise analogue filters 42 Design and development of a Parametric Equaliser for use in audio engineering 43 New Product Introduction Tracker 44 Electronic Production Quality Defects database 45 Software tool for financial data mining 46 Circuit simulator software tool using VisualStudio.NET 47 Development of a DDA (Disability Discrimination Act) compliant e-commerce website using WC3 recommendations 48 Robot control using EEG 49 Investigation into parallel computing using GPUs 50 Travelling cavity laser 51 Interferometric technique using tuneable laser 52 LED Photonic lattice enhjancement 53 Design and Construct an FDM Transmitter 54 Design and Construct an Amplitude Modulator by Additive Mixing 55 Windowed-Sinc Filters using C++ 56 Frequency Domain Pitch Detection using C++ 57 Channel Vocoder Speech Synthesis using C++ 58 Design of 4-Wheel Robot Platform 59 Micromouse Maze Solving Robot 60 Battery charge and discharge monitoring and test system 61 Development of a PC-based Testbed for FPGA-based digital circuits 62 Evaluation of uCLinux on a Analog Devices Blackfin DSP processor 63 Smart Metering (Competition) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sarah Posted June 23, 2010 Report Share Posted June 23, 2010 yikes!! I didn';t understand half of that lol I say this one: 7 Human Posture monitoring system in a work environment Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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