Last summer, I had the good fortune to meet Prof. Derek Tittle, of Georgia Tech's School of Economics. I mentioned that I was getting ready to run (I can't really use the word "teach") a section of ECE's senior design course, and he suggested a project to create an artificially intelligent slot car that humans could race against. A team of three ( Read more... )

There's some question about whether Ben Franklin actually said that, but it's a nice quote anyway ( Read more... )

In the Fall 2008 semester, one of the ECE4007 Senior Design Project teams I advised created the RADCASTle: Really Awesome Digitally Controlled Analog Synthesis Tool. (See here for documentation, including schematics, PCB layouts, and microcontroller code, as well as more photos.) They didn't get it 100% working by the end of the semester, but I was ( Read more... )

I previously posted about the passive radar one of my Fall 2008 senior design teams worked on.

One of the other projects was the Mobile U (click on "media" and check out the videos), a teleconferencing robot. In the shot below, you can see the robot showing the image of one of the team members, who was out in the hall; that team member could see ( Read more... )

This Fall semester, I was assigned a section of our "ECE4007 Senior Design" class, in which students have to (finally) design and build real things, instead of just slogging through homework sets and exams.

This was my passive radar team. The radar is "passive" in that it employs signals such as TV and radio transmissions that are already ( Read more... )