May 10, 2011 – Hacked Gadgets

Cornell University ECE 4760 Microcontroller Designing Final Projects

Alan Parekh May 10, 2011 2

The spring 2011 batch ofÂ Cornell University ECE 4760 Designing with Microcontrollers Final Projects are out.Â Be prepared to spend a few hours browsing through the details of these cool projects. There is everything from a human tracking fan system to a DJ Touchscreen Device. If you are into playing rock paper scissors have a look at the ECE 4760 project below. David Dunn and Chris Fairfax designed and built

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Automatic Pet Water Dish Filler

Alan Parekh May 10, 2011 4

Keeping our cat’s water dish topped up is my daughter’s job but it would be something that would be nice to automate. Only thing I would always be scared about is if a sensor went bad or there was some bad code that caused the thing to run for 5 or 6 hours when I was out… I guess having a limited reservoir size would be one way to limit