Project Summary
This project was for Stanford University's class, ME218a: Smart Product Fundamentals with Ed Carryer in Fall 2013. The project description is below. We worked in teams of 4 to complete this culminating final project, which involved mechanical, electrical, and software components.
Having SPDL on your resume has landed you a job on the pilot development team for ESPN0xFF, a new absurd SPoRTS TV network. Dozens of studies have shown that some of the most popular varieties of SPoRTS involve a mash-up of two seemingly unrelated activities, such as skiing and shooting (biathlon) or chess and boxing. As a team member, you are charged with pitching examples of absurd biathlon-inspired SPoRTS games that will be used to entertain the next generation of discerning media consumers. In a focus group study, the Simulated Presentations of Ridiculous Technological SPoRTS (SPoRTS) will be viewed and enjoyed not only by your fellow ME218 students, but also by a throng of interested people (including children, 218 alumni, and random people off the street) who may know little of the technology involved. Your design should be suitable and appropriate for viewing and use by a multitude of interested potential players of all ages.
The underlying purpose of this project is to give you some experience building an electro-mechanical widget. We expect that this will involve working with sensors, driving actuators, designing event driven software and implementing that software in C on a pair of ‘C32 Boards. These are the elements that we expect to see in every solution.