Pedometer Design: Not just a walk in the park
Format
SOECS Senior Project Demonstration
Faculty Mentor Name
Cherian Matthews
Abstract/Artist Statement
The senior design project that we have been working on has proved to be an arduous task. Designing a functional pedometer from scratch is a difficult taks that requires attention to detail. When designing the project, we started off with significant amounts of research. Two members focused on the software portion of the project, and the other two focussed on the hardware. As such, we ended up with two huge piles of paper--one pile with significant amounts of declarations and variables; the other a copious stack of data sheets. We are an ambitious group, and decided on process flows and what functionality we wanted out of our system. We designed a pedometer that would take into account time, number of steps, and distance traveled. We obtained most of our information from faculty on campus, supplemented with our own independent Internet research. We also used lab manuals from previous courses as examples (for instance our Microcontrollers course lab notes were used to set up the timer, and initialize our ADC and LCD). We also used some of our old Circuit's lab notes in order to design circuits that would perform voltage division, voltage regulation, and capacitive filtering. Currently, we are working on bringing together the hardware and software. We are able to display values of steps on the LCD, meaning that our accelerometer and associated code are working in sync. We are currently working on the RS232 implementation and the construction of the physical product. We hope to have our working model complete within the next week.
Location
School of Engineering & Computer Science
Start Date
3-5-2008 2:00 PM
End Date
3-5-2008 3:30 PM
Pedometer Design: Not just a walk in the park
School of Engineering & Computer Science
The senior design project that we have been working on has proved to be an arduous task. Designing a functional pedometer from scratch is a difficult taks that requires attention to detail. When designing the project, we started off with significant amounts of research. Two members focused on the software portion of the project, and the other two focussed on the hardware. As such, we ended up with two huge piles of paper--one pile with significant amounts of declarations and variables; the other a copious stack of data sheets. We are an ambitious group, and decided on process flows and what functionality we wanted out of our system. We designed a pedometer that would take into account time, number of steps, and distance traveled. We obtained most of our information from faculty on campus, supplemented with our own independent Internet research. We also used lab manuals from previous courses as examples (for instance our Microcontrollers course lab notes were used to set up the timer, and initialize our ADC and LCD). We also used some of our old Circuit's lab notes in order to design circuits that would perform voltage division, voltage regulation, and capacitive filtering. Currently, we are working on bringing together the hardware and software. We are able to display values of steps on the LCD, meaning that our accelerometer and associated code are working in sync. We are currently working on the RS232 implementation and the construction of the physical product. We hope to have our working model complete within the next week.