ECE 110/120 Honors Lab Section : Triple C

Final Report

Project Description:

We want to make a multi functional chess clock that can detect useful player information based on a combination of touch and weight sensors.

Parts List

• Arduino Nano
• 2 - LTC-617 (http://www.ebay.com/itm/3-Lite-On-LTC-617D1G-GREEN-LED-CLOCK-DISPLAY-7-SEGMENT-4-0-6-4-INDICATORS-CA-/221575388631)
• BreadBoard
• Real Time Clock Module
• Resistors - Will be determined
• Capacitive Touch Sensors
  
  • Aluminum Foil
    

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Team Members:

Katherine Yun

Roshan Rajan

Yue (Penny) Xu

Capacitive Touch Sensor:

• Arduino Board
• 5.6M resistor
• 220ohm resistor
• Any colour LED
• Foil
• Jumper wire
• Relay (optional)
• Mains plug (male and female) (optional)

WEEKLY JOURNAL

September 21

Goals

• Discuss what type of project wants to be done (Chess clock or another Chess accessory) 
• Start a parts list
• Determine what sensors need to be used
• Incorporation of hardware into project

What to do

• Finish parts list
• Any other ideas that might to be followed
• Determine a plan of what work needs to be done per week

October 5

• Finalize the parts for a multifunctional chess clock
• Determined to use the touch sensors as buttons
• Came up with a plan/ time line for the completion of the project
• Completed Block Diagram

October 12

• Research the type of sensors that we can use
• We determined that a temperature sensor is not practical because of the short amount of time that the player's hand is in contact with the sensor
• We played around with the idea of a chess board calibrated with weight sensors but decided to stick with the clock idea

October 19

• We created and finalized our parts list

October 26

• Our SparkFun real time clock arrived and the TAs helped us solder the pins that we were able to obtain from professor Schmeit...
• Research circuit components 

November 2

• Gathered the parts needed for a touch capacitive sensor form the service shop

• Touch controlled light:

  This simple part of the project uses a capacitive touch sensor, that switches on and off an led, or even high voltage appliances, by touching a piece of aluminum foil. Whenever the chess player presses on one side of the clock, which has a piece of aluminum foil underneath the LED will light up. And the real time clock module will record the time collapse between each press. 

November 9

• build the touch capacitor sensor circuit so that it can turn on and off a LED
• soldered the pins onto the clock's display board
• Researched and tried to understand the type of code used for counting down time and altering it to make it compatible with our clock