I need some ideas for a final project for my advanced digital class...(Note that I am just looking for ideas and not a solution, so please dont harass me
I'm an electrical engineer major but I'm going for a 2nd major in computer engineering. So being a EE, I'm looking to interface some sort of hardware to the FPGA...Motors, LEDs, etc.
I'm kinda leaning towards an inverted Pendulum, but I'm sure there are plenty of other cool projects out there.
Why dont' you try a digital LED based moving display which would be a small weather station displaying wind speed, amount of rainfall, temperature and levels of ambient pollution interspaced with date and time of the location?
Thanks for all the suggestions...
I was thinking about doing something involving LEDs but the Prof said he wanted something that requires quite alot of computations.
I think I'm going to do the inverted pendulum. I have all of the parts necessary, (4+ years of saving electronics junk is finally paying off). So I just have to do the programming.
Unfortunitly we only have 3 weeks left of classes, so I'll probably be spending quite a bit of time in the labs to get it done.
Displays stuff such as supply volts, current, power factor, rotational speed, running hours, number of starts, winding temperature, bearing temperature.
You could put alarms on some of these parameters.
Display the data on an LCD display, hand the data off to some other SCADA type system.