CSE 466 Midterm (Lab 6) Project

Introduction

For the Midterm, each of you will build and program a project with a specific design and goal. This project must be individual work, not done with a partner.

You can re-use some previously developed code from the labs, like display and motion sensor code.

Try to work systematically, outlining and planning program flow and user activity in advance. You may need to do some research into methods.

You will be graded on how well your project works, its ease of use, and the clarity of documentation and code comments.

Bonus Points: We will take complexity and originality into account for bonus points. Wonderful failures are better than boring successes, but your project should actually work.

Objective

In this lab, you will build something to demonstrate what you have learned so far in this course.

Available Resources

Teensy and proto-board
battery pack for mobile use
- Battery pack is connected Black to Ground, Red to VCC of the Teensy, and MUST BE switched OFF when plugging into a USB port.
- Not following this will result in possible destruction of the USB port or the battery pack.
LCD
Bluetooth BLE module
SD card on LCD
- Pins for controlling the SD card reader are on the opposite end of the display.
- You will need to solder extra pins on to the display board.
- The CS pin should go to pin 4 on the Teensy; the other three pins are wired to the same pins of the SPI interface driving the display.
  See PlayScale.ino for information on sharing the SPI bus, and use of the SD reader. It also plays a chromatic scale through the A14 DAC output.
- The SdFat library works much better than the SD library. See examples.
MPU6050 motion sensor
Tri-color LED
NeoPixel Ring
Motion sensors-- we have several kinds
Potentiometer and switch
Small gray piezo sound transducer (useful for beeps, etc.) http://courses.cs.washington.edu/courses/cse466/03au/Labs/lab-4/Lab%204_files/AT-17.pdf
Transistor switch to control LCD backlight (power hog). Turn on-off by writing 1 or 0 to the selected I/O pin:

You may need to change the 330 ohm resistor to 100 ohms.

You should pick one of the following projects

Video Game— using LCD, NeoPixels and motion sensor. Pong? Tilt-table? Etch-a-Sketch? Simon? Battleship? Be creative…Make it simple.
Option: add audio sound effects through the DAC or PWM using a small speaker or piezo transducer.
See PlayScale.ino for information on sharing the SPI bus, and use of the SD reader. It also plays a chromatic scale through the A14 DAC output.
There are several small speakers in the cabinet that work when connected to A14 and ground.
Respiration Monitor— a device that sits on your chest and measures and logs respiration in breaths per minute as you lie on your back.
Store the data as an ASCII text file on the SD card.
Uses battery pack, and needs low-power considerations in programming.
Android example: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.sciencewithandroid.crmonitorfree&hl=en
Activity Logger— use the motion sensor to detect activity, (such as walking, jogging, sitting, going up or down stairs) and log it as ASCII to the SD card.
Think FitBit, or any of the other myriad fitness trackers.
Uses battery pack, and needs low-power considerations in programming.
Any other project idea of your own devising-- just get my approval in advance.

Here are some project descriptions from last year.

Deliverables

Short (1-3 pages) project report, with the following:
- name of project and your name,
- 1 paragraph description of purpose and directions for use,
- Description of hardware resources used and how they are connected,
- Theory of operation-- describe how it works,
Fully-annotated and clearly commented sketch, with each code block explained
files with example logging data (if applicable)
Demo of your working hardware sometime on Wednesday Nov. 18 afternoon, in the lab. I'll be there until 2 pm. Late demos at the start of Thursday's lab or email me for a time.

1, 2, and 3 should be turned in to your Catalyst drop box in the Lab 6 drop bin by Wednesday, Nov. 18 at 11:45 pm.