The Project Portal Site

This is an archive site. Current senoir design projects are at https://projects.eng.uci.edu.

Submitted by phchou on Wed, 05/18/2016 - 19:06

Please use the EECS+CSE senior projects portal to (1) find the latest announcements on EECS 159A-B, CSE 181A-B, (2) check out projects from the past, (3) post your own project ideas as blogs (whether you are student or faculty), (4) talk to other students and form teams using the forum, (4) browse project ideas posted on the blog, (5) view the calendar of events and important dates related to senior projects

More information will be posted as this site gets constructed.

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hamilts1

Fri, 06/03/2016 - 15:47

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hayesg

Tue, 09/06/2016 - 13:50

Communicating digital information to visually impaired individuals has been an ongoing challenge in research and industry for over thirty years. Audio (via speech recognition and text-to-speech) and tactile (via Braille Displays) representations of visual information are currently the primary forms of communication. While these two forms of input and output serve as suitable forms for communicating textual information, the ability to dynamically communicate visual information such as pictures and graphics has yet to be solved. Refreshable graphics for the visually impaired, to the extent that they exist, are expensive and complex devices. This project seeks to address this gap by developing a hardware and software system for generating refreshable tactile graphics using concepts based on granular jamming (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2973877/). 

Project Challenges

* Develop an affordable, reproduceable, open source system.
* Create an air tight environment capable of rendering tactilely differentiated surface areas.
* Control and actuation of jammed segments.

Project Skills

This project will involve a variety of skills, including:

* Controlling motorized parts through a microcontroller
* Communication between a microcontroller and computer
* 3D design and printing of parts
* Development of flexible material jamming housing