Intro A year ago, I moved nearer to Golden Gate Bridge and seeing the ships come in made me wonder how they’re tracked. I had seen websites like this one, and was curious how...
First World Problems I live in San Francisco where our coffee is strong, our alcohol is stronger, and our public transit system (Muni) is weak. OK, that’s not entirely fair, but Muni is slow and unreliable:...
Overview Our senior design project (at Georgia Tech) was an open ended design. We chose to create an autonomous foosball table. The ball as well as the opponent players are tracked in a vision...
Background For certain classes of antennas, e.g. Yagi-Uda antennas, the design characteristics have no known “best case” numeric values. That is, if you want to design a Yagi-Uda antenna for a particular frequency, there...
Elliptical filters are neat filters that have equiripples and very sharp frequency cutoffs. This is an application note I wrote for when/where you would use one. For more information, check out the elliptic filter page on Wikipedia.
Background This project was done as a part of our Digital Design Laboratory course, which I later became a TA for (eventually becoming a Lead TA). The project was to design a robot self-test, to test...
