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16 Luminous Chessboard
 Ke Ma
Qianliang Liu
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The goal of our project is to design an electronic chessboard that can recognize chessman pieces and is equipped with a lighting system showing potential moves with an AI algorithm. Once a piece is picked up, the chessboard should light up the available positions it can go, and indicate good moves and bad moves with different colors of LEDs, and afterwards detect the move the player conducts. The AI algorithm will be simple and be able to look one or two steps ahead.

RFI Detector

Jamie Brunskill, Tyler Shaw, Kyle Stevens

RFI Detector

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Problem Statement:

Radio frequency interference from cell phones disrupts measurements at the radio observatory in Arecibo, Puerto Rico. Many visitors do not comply when asked to turn their phones off or put them in airplane mode.

Description:

We are planning to design a handheld device that will be able to detect radio frequency interference from cell phones from approximately one meter away. This will allow someone to determine if a phone has been turned off or is in airplane mode.

The device will feature an RF front end consisting of antennas, filters, and matching networks. Multiple receiver chains may be used for different bands if necessary. They will feed into a detection circuit that will determine if the power within a given band is above a certain threshold. This information will be sent to a microcontroller that will provide visual/audible user feedback.

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