About: Bilal

Introduction The inverted pendulum is an interesting case in the study of control systems because of its unstable nature. A pendulum is considered inverted when its center of mass is placed above its pivot point, meaning that its only equilibrium point is when its center of mass is directly above the pivot point. This is […]

Introduction For this design project, we built a portable digital synthesizer capable of creating a wide variety of sounds designed by the user. The system consisted of a full octave (13 key) keyboard with two-voice polyphony, three rotary encoders for user input, a TFT LCD for visual display, and an SPI DAC for audio output. […]

Introduction We created a 3 rotational degree of freedom quadcopter frame. The result was so that when placed on the small surface area of roughly a finger tip, the quadcopter can maintain its stability and recover from perturbations. The four motors increase and decrease in speed according the size and direction of the disturbance so […]

Introduction We designed a device that can aid in learning the alphabet in American Sign Language. We built a glove with various sensors to identify the hand position of the user closely and use that to give feedback on what they are doing right or wrong through the LCD display for each letter in the […]

Introduction We developed a wearable hydration monitoring system that will track an individual’s hydration levels by measuring the bioimpedance of the skin, that will transmit the data via Bluetooth to his or her cellphone, and that will provide a visual cue corresponding to their hydration. Our completed project! High Level Design Rationale Dehydration is usually […]

For our ECE4760 final project we built a wireless star network with the PIC32  for remote monitoring and automation. Meant to augment users’ abilities to gain insight into their homes through a monitoring station, our system is designed around reliable communication between individual low-cost nodes communicating at 2.4GHz which can be easily added or removed. […]

Introduction For our final project, we designed and implemented a remote-control car with a user-controlled steering wheel interface. We wanted a user interface that was immediately intuitive and familiar, which we thought a steering wheel with an onboard accelerometer definitely accomplished. Additionally, we wanted a system that could realize reliable real-time remote communication, so we […]

Introduction: For our final project in ECE 4760: Design with Microcontrollers, we decided to explore the concept of controlling a vehicle with the user’s hand orientation relative to the ground. By the end of the semester, we designed a cheap and effective hand controlled vehicle using the PIC32 microcontroller. This project is comprised of two […]

We designed, constructed and tested an autonomous quadcopter that used an IMU to control its attitude and a radio to transmit data to a controller, which we also built. The project focused on making the quadcopter as autonomous as possible, so only high level commands such as flight time are sent from the controller to […]

THE INTERSECTION OF MUSIC WITH TECHNOLOGY CAN CREATE ENTIRELY NEW WAYS TO PRODUCE OR EXPERIMENT WITH MUSIC. THE RECENT HISTORY OF MUSIC HAS TAKEN ADVANTAGE OF THIS TO AUGMENT EXISTING INSTRUMENTS AND MODIFY THEIR SOUND, OR IN THE CASE OF SYNTHESIZERS, TO PRODUCE ENTIRELY NEW AUDIO EFFECTS. OUR PROJECT WAS INSPIRED BY THE NOTION THAT […]