Antenna systems for cube satellites

For this project, you are asked to decide various antenna types for a small satellite. The antennas are for GPS, and it is for the USU’s satellite talking to GPS satellite. Dr. Baktur will provide mentorship and some support. Please contact her for more details if you are interested.

Inkjet printed antennas

This project explores the cheapest and fasted method to fabricate an antenna. Unlike traditional antennas made from metal, here we are printing antennas with an inkjet printer using conductive ink. The antennas are printed on papers, on transparencies, stickers, or even T-shirt! You may further go on to integrate the printed antennas with window glasses, solar cells, telescope for many important reasons and applications. Please contact Dr. Baktur for more details.

audio-controlled noise-microphone-tracker

An excellent senior project last spring was an audio-controlled noise-microphone-tracker which would be a great one for follow-on. The project was by Blaine Wood.

Embedding video in e-sheets

You may have looked through a magazine like National Geographic and seen still images of turtles or whales, and wondered when we will get magazines like the ones in harry potter films, with embedded video.
You may also be familiar with the e-sheet or e-ink technology used in the amazon kindle.
It will be exciting to write software on an e-sheet kit, to embed video clips with text.
I will support purchase of the e-sheet development kit.

Automatic digital scrolling music composition electronic sheet

You may have noticed that a pianist uses printed pages of composed music that he/she needs to keep turning by hand, or have someone turn the pages for them. You may also be aware of the technology used in the Amazon Kindle.
There is a kit available to program written material onto the kindle type of e-display/edit sheets.
In this project I would like to see an interface developed in software to make music composition move along on the e-sheet in synchronization with the pace at which music is being played on an instrument like a digital piano.
This should allow for musicians like pianists to comfortably read the notes without taking hands off the piano.
I will support purchase of the e-sheet kit.