Project
| # | Title | Team Members | TA | Documents | Sponsor |
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| 57 | Modular Cup Pong Point Tracker |
Albert Xu Dylan Estrada Kyle Svara |
Prashant Shankar | design_document1.pdf design_document2.pdf design_document3.pdf final_paper1.pdf proposal1.pdf |
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| Albert Xu (axu7), Dylan Estrada (dylante2), Kyle Svara (kjsvara2) # Portable Cup Pong Scoring Device # Problem Many college students enjoy a good game of cup pong. It's usually hard to keep track of a score so an accurate method is needed. Our solution plans to solve this with portable pads that can be brought to wherever the party goes. # Solution We plan on creating 2 triangular pads that can be placed on top of the table, underneath the cups. A 7 segment display will be connected to the module. There will be load cells in the cups' positions to register when a cup has been taken away. This will subtract a point (starting from 10) from the respective team. Whenever a cup has been registered as taken away, a ring of lights will help represent this by turning from green to red (or other colors as desired). To keep track of team points, there will be a button that can be pressed before each shot. This button will also help to implement a stretch goal of keeping statistics such as win/loss ratio or accuracy. # Subsystems - Load cells: These can be constructed with one of two ways. The first idea is individual pressure sensors in each cup position that will act independently of other sensors. The second idea is to use a sort of “kitchen scale” will divide the entire weight by 10 to determine when a cup is removed or not. - 7-segment Display: This will be taking inputs from the load cell modules to accurately depict the current score. It will count down from 10 until one of the teams will win. - Buttons: This will connect to a central processing module to determine which is the team is currently shooting. It will signify the beginning of each teams’ turn. # Criteria for Success A success for this project is to be able to determine when a load cell as been triggered (cup removed) and manipulate a display to reflect that. There are also some visual things such as lights that will be interesting to add on. Our final stretch goal is to make some sort of tracker to keep records of player performance. |
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