EE345L Design Competition, Fall 2007
 Jonathan Valvano
TAs
Robin Tsang
Deepak Panwar
Jacob Egner
Sandy Hermawan
Objective: Design, Construct, and Test an embedded system

Judging Criteria
Visual appeal, functionality, and software quality

Constraints
6811 microcontroller, 28C64 EEPROM, $59 ExpressPCB Service, $20 out-of-pocket expenses

Process
 Propose a project
 Design the microcontroller-based hardware circuit
 Layout circuit board using ExpressPCB
 Build a 3-D mockup
 Fabricate PCB
 Test subcomponents (power, reset, clock, memory interface, I/O devices)
 Develop and test software

Lab08f.pdf  Lab11a.pdf  Lab12a.pdf
 

Judges

 Daryl Goodnight, Mona Venegas, Perry Durkee, and Paul Landers
 

Finalists

Tileli Amimeur & Lorena Pesantez , Piano, TA Deepak
David Yanoshak & Shuo Liu , Lights out, TA Deepak
Heriberto Nieto & James Reggio, Waveform Generator, TA Robin
Craig Wilson & Steve Yang, Word Jumble, TA Jacob
Dewayne Martz & John Olsavsky, Mortal Kombat Simulator, TA Jacob
Tung Dao & Yovita Iskandar, Monkey Catching, TA Sandy
Robby Morril & Mark Zucknick, SimAntz, TA Sandy
 

Invited Exhibitors (spent more then the $20 limit)

Blake Lindell & Christopher Craik, Snake
Joshua Payne & John Boiles, Radio-Controlled Camera

Winners

 1st place: David Yanoshak & Shuo Liu, Lights out
 2nd place: Tileli Amimeur & Lorena Pesantez , Piano

 3rd place: Robby Morril & Mark Zucknick, SimAntz

 4th place: Craig Wilson & Steve Yang, Word Jumble
 

Winning design: Lights Out

The top four teams
Shuo Liu, David Yanoshak, Robby Morril, Mark Zucknick, Steve Yang, Craig Wilson, Tileli Amimeur, Lorena Pesantez

Mona plays the piano

Robby Morril & Mark Zucknick show their SimAntz game

SimAntz tied for third place

Special Invited Category: Blake Lindell and Christopher Craik

ExpressPCB layout including two 9S12 processors and 128 multi-color LEDs

Tileli Amimeur demonstrates her piano

Daryl wants to see inside the piano

John Olsavsky explains how the Mortal Kombat Simulator works

Robby Morril & Mark Zucknick show the inside of SimAntz

Special Invited Category: Joshua Payne and John Boiles

Radio-linked camera controller

David Yanoshak & Shuo Liu won first place for their Lights out game

Drs. Chiou and Swartzlander observe the Piano

Valvano with the esteemed judges