ece 477 team 2

2ece 477 team 2

ECE 477 Senior DesignTeam 2 – Fall 2011

from left to right: James Cuffney, Brent O’Brien, Keegan McGraw, Austin Chen

3project overview

— controller for concert and DJ lighting

— uses the well-established digital DMX protocol

— preset and user-created lighting sequences

— improvement on existing DMX controllers

— user friendly

— aesthetically appealing

— targeted to the consumer market

4design challenges

— microcontroller issues

— difficult to use development environment

— couldn‘t program our micro

— last minute switch

— speed and memory requirements for DMX

— flywiring major revisions to our PCB

— wire management inside the packaging

5270/362 skills

— ATD/ADC: audio

— UART: LCD

— shift registers: LEDs

— timing diagrams: DMX

— project management

— reading datasheets

6demo