Nathaniel Brown

Chris Mordue

Schedule-

Monday- 2:00 PM on

Tuesday- Evening

Wednesday- Evening

Thursday- 2:30 PM on

Friday- 5:30 PM on

Work Habits-

Both like to break down large projects into sub-parts with internal deadlines.

Both like to have extensive communications for group decisions.

Both like Frisbee breaks.

Previous classes together-

370

Skills-

Both

FPGA programming (Verilog) -for image compression

Experience connecting FPGA to a display -for communication with camera

Circuit board assembly, soldering -for USB to FPGA interface board

Extensive Java experience -for interfacing with phone

Project write-ups, presentations

Chris

Operating systems -for Mote programming

Nathaniel

Experience using Motes -for wireless communication

Printed circuit board design -for USB to FPGA interface board

The project idea, which we have discussed the most, is #19 on your list, the wireless camera to wristwatch project. We propose the following method for realizing this idea:

A USB web-camera will be capturing an image and will be connected to a FPGA which will process the image into smaller dimensions suitable for a wrist-watch or cell phone.

There will be four major parts for accomplishing this:

1. Connecting the USB web-camera to the FPGA board (hardware/board)

2. Processing the image on the FPGA

3. Communicating the shrunken image wireless to wrist-watch/phone

4. Finding and receiving wireless signal and displaying image

Our experiences in these areas are covered on the previous page.

Secondary Idea:

We both would like to work with an FPGA and would involve some form of communication via motes/cell phones. Nobody else seemed to have been interested in the first idea and we had discussed it briefly with you… so our time has been spent thinking about the primary project.