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Monthly Archives: February 2015

Recreating the THX Deep Note – Earslap

Posted on February 23, 2015 by Erik Cheever | Leave a reply

Recreating the THX Deep Note – Earslap.  Read this blog post on how to create the THX Deep Note (the sound at the beginning of movies using THX).  It involves some signal processing – see if you can do it in MATLAB.  Here is professor Zucker’s implementation in shadertoy https://www.shadertoy.com/view/Mtf3zs.

Posted in Course Project Ideas, E12.

Add code to Fourier Series Lab so Function Generator makes Sawtooth and Triangle wave

Posted on February 20, 2015 by Erik Cheever | Leave a reply

Right now, the signal generator is only configured to create sine waves and square waves.  Code could be added to the U8903a GUI to enable the generation of triangle and Sawtooth waves.

Posted in Course Project Ideas, E12.

Build shaker table + building for E12 lab

Posted on February 18, 2015 by Erik Cheever | Leave a reply

Build a shaker table with sinusoidal input that shakes model building that is instrumented with accelerometers.

Posted in Course Project Ideas, E90.

DSP Codecs Use Beamforming to Optimize Voice Signals

Posted on February 18, 2015 by Erik Cheever | Leave a reply

Design you own beam-forming microphone array, or come up with a novel application for this integrated one.  DSP Codecs Use Beamforming to Optimize Voice Signals | Embedded content from Electronic Design.

Posted in Analog (high level), Course Project Ideas, E90.

Explore Fourier Transform and Filtering in 2 dimensions.

Posted on February 18, 2015 by Erik Cheever | Leave a reply

Explore Fourier Transform and Filtering in 2 dimensions (i.e., images).

Posted in Course Project Ideas, E12.

The hot rod.

Posted on February 18, 2015 by Erik Cheever | Leave a reply

Put a heater on one end of a metal rod, and measure, predict and model the temperature along the length of the rod.

Posted in Course Project Ideas, E12.

Compartmental modeling (physiological systems)

Posted on February 18, 2015 by Erik Cheever | Leave a reply

Read up on compartmental modeling and model some physiological system (e.g., glucose metabolism…)

Posted in Course Project Ideas, E12.

Analyze and simulate the double pendulum without the small angle approximation.

Posted on February 18, 2015 by Erik Cheever | Leave a reply

Analyze and simulate the double pendulum without the small angle approximation.  Include an animation.

Posted in Course Project Ideas, E12.

Build an analog computer.

Posted on February 18, 2015 by Erik Cheever | Leave a reply

Build an electronic analog computer (a circuit analog to Simulink) using integrators and summers….

Posted in Course Project Ideas, E12.

Try to model the friction of the double pendulum experiment.

Posted on February 18, 2015 by Erik Cheever | Leave a reply

Try to model the friction of the double pendulum experiment.  The friction is closer to kinetic than viscous, so you’ll need a non-linear model (either your R-K, or simulink).  This has some interesting aspects to it (as friction often does).

 

Posted in Course Project Ideas, E12.

Develop a thermal model for a hot box.

Posted on February 18, 2015 by Erik Cheever | Leave a reply

Put a heater in a box and try modeling the temperature in the box over time.

Posted in Course Project Ideas, E12.

Develop a system to measure hand position and develop a model.

Posted on February 18, 2015 by Erik Cheever | Leave a reply

Build a small dial with a pointer and measure the transfer function of your hand as you try to follow a moving target.

 

Posted in Course Project Ideas, E12, E72.

Model a spider on a spider’s web.

Posted on February 18, 2015 by Erik Cheever | Leave a reply

Try to predict the deformation of a spider’s web with a spider sitting on it – you could model the web as springs and dashpots.

Posted in Course Project Ideas, E12.

Explore the audio impulse response of various areas around campus.

Posted on February 18, 2015 by Erik Cheever | Leave a reply

Record the audio impulse response (pop a balloon) and record the audio impulse response of various locations around campus.  Play various sounds through the impulse response and explore the results.

Posted in Course Project Ideas, E12.

Explore a triple pendulum system

Posted on February 18, 2015 by Erik Cheever | Leave a reply

We have a triple pendulum system – explore the modes of oscillation of this sixth order system, experimentally and in simulation.

 

Posted in Course Project Ideas, E12.

Get data from double pendulum using a vision capture system.

Posted on February 18, 2015 by Erik Cheever | Leave a reply

Get data from double pendulum using a vision capture system.

Posted in Course Project Ideas, E12.

Explore Filters

Posted on February 18, 2015 by Erik Cheever | Leave a reply

Explore filter types (Butterworth, Chebyshev) – try them out on the EMG data from lab – see if you can get the same results as the BioRadio software (you can also play with the filters from within their data collection software)

Posted in Course Project Ideas, E12.

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