December 13, 2008 – Hacked Gadgets

Ball-E Color Following Robot – Cornell University ECE 5760 Advanced Microcontrollers Project

Alan Parekh December 13, 2008 4

The Cornell University ECE 5760 Advanced Microcontrollers Project fall 2008 results are up. This Ball-E colored ball following robot is just one of many cool projects. Cathy Chen and Matt Meister did a great job of documenting the project for us to enjoy! This year Bruce Land gave the students a Altera/Terasic DE2 FPGA development board to let their creative juices flow. "Our project’s goal was to create an

Contests

Name the Thing Contest – 71

Alan Parekh December 13, 2008 19

This contest will run for one week (Dec 13 – Dec 18, 2008) . Ending time is based on central standard time. To enter, identify the item pictured above and give an example of what can be done with it. Note that the picture shows the device in a cutaway model so that the inside workings are visible, the actual make and model is not needed this time. Please do