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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