Teamwork

Description

The teamwork grade is composed of two assignments. The first teamwork evaluation, administered shortly after the Design Review phase, consists of feedback questions designed to help the ECE 445 Staff better understand how each student's group is progressing towards the final demo. If all questions are answered completely and thoughtfully, the student will be awarded 5 points for completion of the assignment. No partial credit will be awarded for late submissions. The survey may be completed on Compass2g.

The second teamwork evaluation is a subjective score that will be awarded at the end of the semester according to the criteria below. Partner evaluations may be completed on Compass2g at the end of the semester to help determine this score. Responses to both surveys are confidential and will not be disclosed to the other teammates in the student's group.

Requirements and Grading

Each student in a group will be evaluated on the following criteria:

Contribution to the design, implementation, and debugging of the project
Participation with teammates in Design Review, Demo, and Presentation
Regularly made contact with TA
Conducting themselves in a professional manner throughout the semester
Participating in team discussions, weekly TA meetings, and weekly update meetings
Completion of checkout procedures (checkout form)

Submission and Deadlines

The teamwork evaluation forms should be completed on Compass2g by the deadlines listed on the Course Calendar. Teamwork evaluation sheets will be taken into account when teamwork grades are assigned. However, these scores will not fully determine the teamwork grade.

Featured Project

This project aims to build a mimicry stage lighting control system. Generally speaking, the direction control system (usually a robot arm) will imitate the movements of the operator's arms so that the direction of the light can be controlled arbitrarily. In addition, the color of the light array can be determined by either the operator or the inherent information extracted from the music that is being played. Also, the whole system can be built in small size and can be installed easily, so that it can be deployed in scenarios like home parties.

More specifically, an operator (mostly a presenter or DJ) holds (or wears) a control device, the joystick, in each hand. The joysticks track the movement of each arm and transmit the direction information to the central server. This information is then processed and redirected to the mounted projector light arrays to control the actual direction of beams. Each hand controls each side of the lighting array. The system can also memorize a period of movement and playback. Besides, the color of the lights can be manually determined or be automatically determined by the rhythm or tempo of the music being played. The movement of the light gimbal can even be determined by the inherent feature of music.

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