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45 Smart Portable Key
 Aashay Shah
Akshay Chanana
 Igor Fedorov design_document0.pdf
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This project aims to build a smart secure portable electronic key. This key will be activated after verification from a finger print reader. After it goes through the fingerprint reader and gets activated, we will send an encrypted verification to the panel with switches for different locks to unlock. By pressing one of these switches, we will be able to then transmit a signal (via RF/Bluetooth) to the particular lock we require to open. This signal will have an encryption key that will prevent physical hacking as the receiver requires this key to get activated.
After successful verification of this key the respective lock will be able to click open. The locks that we will be using will have electric and mechanical locking components. This will be a really safe (and portable at the same time) option as there is no easy way to tamper with this kind of lock. If some unauthorized person tries to access the reader to open the lock, it will not send a signal. Thus if someone tries to put a high signal directly, the receiver will not get activated as the encryption key would not have been verified yet.
It will be our aim to make it as compact and marketable by the end of the project.

Cypress Robot Kit

Todd Nguyen, Byung Joo Park, Alvin Wu

Cypress Robot Kit

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Cypress is looking to develop a robotic kit with the purpose of interesting the maker community in the PSOC and its potential. We will be developing a shield that will attach to a PSoC board that will interface to our motors and sensors. To make the shield, we will design our own PCB that will mount on the PSoC directly. The end product will be a remote controlled rover-like robot (through bluetooth) with sensors to achieve line following and obstacle avoidance.

The modules that we will implement:

- Motor Control: H-bridge and PWM control

- Bluetooth Control: Serial communication with PSoC BLE Module, and phone application

- Line Following System: IR sensors

- Obstacle Avoidance System: Ultrasonic sensor

Cypress wishes to use as many off-the-shelf products as possible in order to achieve a “kit-able” design for hobbyists. Building the robot will be a plug-and-play experience so that users can focus on exploring the capabilities of the PSoC.

Our robot will offer three modes which can be toggled through the app: a line following mode, an obstacle-avoiding mode, and a manual-control mode. In the manual-control mode, one will be able to control the motors with the app. In autonomous modes, the robot will be controlled based off of the input from the sensors.