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47 NFC-Enabled Menu Ordering System
Area Award: RFID/NFC
 Patric Takagi
Patrick Ding
Yau Chan
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There has been a push toward less dependence on waiters at restaurants. For example, Chili's and Old Chicago's currently support a product called "Ziosk" on every table; a fully-colored, multi-functional, touch-screen tablet that allows restaurant customers to pay the bill and play games from the convenience of their seat. Our idea is to take this idea in a different direction, and implement a low-cost solution to restaurants using an NFC-enabled menu. Since NFC technology is very low-profile, the menus created would look and feel like any other menu on the market. Our device will allow a customer to use our specifically-designed NFC-reader to select their menu items by hovering over the NFC tag (this can be placed underneath a picture of the item or beside the item). The menu will contain an RF module that will send the order directly to the kitchen, reducing the work that waiters need to do. This will allow the restaurant to hire less waiters and will also improve any miscommunication between server and patron. Imagine if you are in a foreign country where you do not speak a lick of the native language. Our solution will allow you to intuitively point and select the food items you want, keeping difficult communication between server and guest as minimal as possible. This product is not designed to completely replace wait staff--it is simply an additional feature that will allow orders to queue efficiently and a reduction in the total number of workers that a restaurant includes on its payroll.

Drum Tutor Lite

Zhen Qin, Yuanheng Yan, Xun Yu

Drum Tutor Lite

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Team: Yuanheng Yan, Zhen Qin, Xun Yu

Vision: Rhythm games such as guitar hero are much easier than playing the actual drums. We want to make a drum tutor that makes playing drums as easy as guitar hero. The player is not required to read a sheet music.

Description: We will build a drum add-on that will tutor people how to play the drums. We will make a panel for visual queue of the drum and beats in a form similar to guitar hero game. The panel can be a N*10 (N varying with the drum kit) led bar array. Each horizontal bar will be a beat and each horizontal line above the bottom line will represent the upcoming beats.

There will be sensors on each drum that will fire when the drum heads is hit. The drums will be affixed with ring of light that provides the timing and accuracy of the player according to the sensors.

Of course with a flip of a switch, the drum could be a simple light up drum: when the player hits the drum, that particular drum will light up giving cool effects.

The system will be on a microprocessor. Or for more versatile uses, it could be connected to the computer. And a app will be written for the tutor.

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