Events in ECE4760 by year: 1997 to 2021

• 1997
  • Bruce Land took over the class using Intel 80C196KB on the Intel EV80C196KB evaluation board.
    The board was huge and the MCU could not be incorporated into student-designed boards
    --Class was formerly taught by Chris Pottle, and before him, Norm Varna.
    --Norm invented the course.
    
  • Wrote 8 new lab exercises.
  • Converted class documents to the web.
• 1999
  • Switched to Atmel flash-based MCUs which could be easily programmed and inserted into small boards.
  • Class was taught using Atmel Assembler.
  • Wrote 8 new lab exercises to convert to Atmel format.
  • Started a web page of final project reports
• 2000
• Wrote a keyboard monitor system in assembler so that the students had a debugging environment.
• Wrote 2 new lab exercises.
• Web page views:
  • ECE4760: ~50,000
  • ECE4760 projects: ~55,000
• 2001
• Converted the course to C (Codevision C).
• Converted to a new protoytype board (STK200).
• Wrote 6 new lab exercises to convert to C.
• Web page views:
  • ECE4760: ~51,000
  • ECE4760 projects: ~55,000
• 2002
• Converted to a higher performance Atmel chip, 8515.
• Converted to a new protoytype board (STK500).
• Nine student teams had their final projects described in Circuit Cellar Magazine:
  • RISCy Business Part1: Projects by Cornell Students by Jeff Bachiochi,
    Circuit Cellar Magazine #145 Aug 2002
    Featured were six projects from ECE 476 in Spring 2001
  • RISCy Business Part2: Impressive Student Designs by Jeff Bachiochi,
    Circuit Cellar Magazine #146 Sept 2002
    Featured were three projects from ECE 476 in Spring 2001
• Web page views:
  • ECE4760: ~51,000
  • ECE4760 projects: ~55,000
• 2003
• Converted to a higher performance Atmel chip, Mega163.
• Wrote extensive real time TV generation code and deployed it into two new labs.
  See: Land, B (2003) AVR Video Generator —Teaching Programming and Graphics, Circuit Cellar Magazine #150, pp 40-44, Jan 2003
• Web page views:
  • ECE4760: ~51,000
  • ECE4760 projects: 38,000
• 2004
• Converted to a higher performance Atmel chip, Mega32.
• Introduced a PC board for students to populate and customize for final projects. Students built 75 boards.
• Revised final project to include:
  • detailed budget limits
  • intellectual property considerations
  • safety considerations
  • ethical considerations
• Started fabricating surface-mount adaptors for student use.
• Web page views:
  • ECE4760: 56,000
  • ECE4760 projects: 72,000
• 2005
• Incorporation of a large donation of sensors (Freescale) into final projects.
• Wrote a realtime kernel for the Mega32 and deployed it into a lab.
• Wrote speech compression software for the Mega32 and deployed speech generation into a lab.
• Web page views:
  • ECE4760: 52,000
  • ECE4760 projects: 77,000
• 2006
• Revised the PC board for final projects (better layout of prototype area).
• Wrote 2 new labs.
• Three teams final projects published:
• kaOS operating system and loader , Nick Clark and Adam Liechty, ECE476,
  Circuit Cellar Magazine,Issue #193 Aug 2006 page 56
• AirMouse , Andrew Sawchuk and Joseph Tanen, ECE476,
  Circuit Cellar Magazine,Issue #191 June 2006
• Virtual Pool , Choon Kwee Anthony Tay and Danny Chekong Chow, ECE476,
  Circuit Cellar Magazine, Issue #184 November 2005
• Web page views:
  • ECE4760: 59,000
  • ECE4760 projects: 145,000
• 2007

• Wrote DSP functions for the Mega32 (IIR filters, FFT, DCT, DWT) and deployed IIR filters into a lab.
  See: Land, B (2008) Fast Digital Filtering, Circuit Cellar Magazine #218, pp 40-46, Sept 2008
• Wrote fast fixed point arithmetic routines in assembler and deployed them.
• Wrote 2 new labs.
• Three teams final projects published:
  • Self-powered solar data logger Abigail Krish, ECE476,
    Circuit Cellar magazine, issue #198, Jan 2007, page 12
  • Reflow oven controller Ko Ihara and Kashif Javed, ECE476,
    Circuit Cellar Magazine, issue #199, Feb 2007, page 46
  • RFID security system , Craig Ross and Ricardo Goto, ECE476,
    Circuit Cellar magazine, issue #199, Feb 2007, page 24
• Web page views:
  • ECE4760: 57,000
  • ECE4760 projects: 188,000
• 2008
• Revised the PC board for final projects (halved the size of the board). Students built about 70 boards.
• One team is obtaining a patent (through Cornell) on their noise cancellation project.
• Four teams final projects published:
  • Motion and Music, Andrew Godbehere and Nathan Ward, .
    Wearable Interfaces for Cyberphysical Musical Expression. Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression (NIME 08), Genoa, Italy, June, 2008.
  • Wall of Pong, Adrian Wong and Bhavin Rokad, Nordic Exceptional Trendshop, NEXT no. 5: MINDBLOWERS, Denmark April 2008.
  • Design a Customizable Virtual Keyboard, Naweed Paya and Venkat Ganesh
    Circuit Cellar Magazine, issue #227, June 2009 page 14-19
  • Low-Cost, High-Fidelity, Adaptive Cancellation of Periodic 60 Hz Noise, Kyle D. Wesson, Robert M. Ochshorn, Bruce R. Land, Journal of Neuroscience Methods 185 (2009) 50–55
• Web page visits:
  • ECE4760: 44,000
  • ECE4760 projects: 210,000 from 174 countries.
• 2009
• Major conversion of all code to GCC (open source, free license, ANSI std C).
• Revision and deployment of improved video code.
• Conversion to higher performance Atmel chip, Mega644.
• Revised the PC board for final projects (better power supply, better header connector).
• Web page visits:
  • ECE4760: 44,000
  • ECE4760 projects: 252,000 from 183 countries
• 2010
  • Rewrite of lab exercises to make four 2-week labs before the design project.
  • Write and deploy a real time kernel into a lab exercise.
  • Revision of final project PC board to use USB communication (rather than RS232).
  • Three teams published their projects
    • RFID Checkout System Design, Jigar Shah and Kevin Yang
      Circuit Cellar Magazine Issue #251 June 2011, pages 28-34
    • Gesture Based Touchpad Security system, Daniel Mejía V. Jayce Doose
      Circuit Cellar Magazine Issue #252 July 2011, pp54-62
    • Auditory Navigator, Garret Phillips, Matt Kinne, Nick Annetta,
      Circuit Cellar Magazine Nov 2011, issue #256, pp24-29
      
  • Web page visits:
    • ECE4760: 40,300
    • ECE4760 projects: 287,000 from 187,000 unique IP addresses.
• 2011 spring
  • Deploy PC board to use USB communication, 55 boards fabricated.
  • Write music synthesis engine for deployment next year.
  • Write light-weight floating point for DSP.
  • Discovered that 8 of our projects had been plagerized and published in IEEE.
    Organized retractions for all of them.
  • Web page visits:
    • ECE4760: 36,905
    • ECE4760 projects: 225,974 from 149,083 unique IP addresses.
• 2012 spring/fall
  • Wrote 3 new labs, including markov music synthesis in Spring.
  • Wrote a simple infrared communications protocol
  • Four teams published their projects
    • MCU-based helicopter altitude control, Akshay Dhawan andSergio Biagioni,
      Circuit Cellar Magazine Jan 2013, issue #270, pp22-28
    • 3‐D Paint: A Complete Hardware and Software Package, by William Myers and Guo Jie Chin,
      Circuit Cellar Magazine Feb 2013, issue #271, p. 26-31
    • Low-Cost, Thermistor Based Respiration Monitor, ECE4760
      Hana Qudsi and Maneesh Gupta Biomedical Engineering Conference (SBEC), 2013 29th Southern; 3-5 May 2013 Page(s) 23 - 24
    • Self-Reliant Power and Data Management System, ECE4760
      Schlichting, A., Shafer, M., and Garcia, E.,"Multi-source energy harvesting schemes with piezoelectrics and photovoltaics and system power management for an avian bio-logger," Proc. of ASME Conf. on Smart Materials, Adaptive Structures and Intelligent Systems, No. 8130, Sept. 19-21, Stone Mountain, GA, 2012.
  • Constructed a YouTube channel for lectures and for student project videos (in late Jan).
    In August I linked in lectures from Spring 2012.
    In Dec, the channel was accepted to YouTubeEDU (since discontinued).
    • The channel received 203,000 video views of lectures and student projects
    • The channel was watched for about 1 million minutes (1.9 year) this year.
  • Moved from Spring to Fall semester.
  • Designed, fabricated, and deployed 100 target boards to replace bulky STK500s. (in Fall)
    Funded by a McCormick Teaching Grant.
  • Rewrote NTSC television code for new architecture and improved resolution.
  • Web page visits:
    • ECE4760: 51,000
    • ECE4760 projects: 230,000 from 160,000 unique IP addresses.
    • We stopped logging visits when the Google logging tools disappeared.
• 2013 fall
  • Wrote new IR communication lab
  • Students fully exploited the 2012 redesigned target boards
  • Six teams published their reports
    1. WebCam Mouse, Alex Leung and Miles Pedrone,
       Circuit Cellar Magazine, Jan 2015, #294, pp 24-29
    2. Run with it: Wireless Pedometer, Ellen Chuang, Julie Wang,
       Circuit Cellar Magazine, Dec 2014, #293, pp 30-40
       
    3. Microcontroller based blood pressure measurment, Randy Song and Alex Ngai,
       Circuit Cellar Magazine, Nov 2014, #292, pp 34-40
    4. Ultrasonic Wayfinder. Shane Soh and Eileen Liu,
       Circuit Cellar Magazine, Nov 2014, #292, pp 26-31
       
    5. Blasterworks: Laser Tag System, Max Rothstein andRichard Speranza,
       Circuit Cellar Magazine, Oct 2014, #291, pp 18-27
    6. Build a microcontroller-based stabilization platform.
       Evan Chen, Geo Xu, Zequn Huang, Circuit Cellar Magazine, Sept 2014, #290, pp 32-39
• 2014 fall
  • Published student reports
    1. Microcontroller-based WAV player, Wangcheng Zhou
       Circuit Cellar Magazine, July 2015, #300 pages 26-39
    2. RealTime scrolling spectrogram, Varun Hedge, Hyun Ryong Lee
       Circuit Cellar Magazine, Jan 2016, #306 pages 26-33
    3. AccelCar, Christine Soong and Shela Wang
       Circuit Cellar Magazine #307, pp 20-25, Feb 2016
    4. Drums Anywhere, Richard Quan and Shiva Rajagopal
       Circuit Cellar Magazine #308, pp 16-25, March 2016
    5. Sight Reading Assistant, Victor Fei, Olivia Gustafson, Jose Villegas
       Circuit Cellar Magazine #308, pp 34-41, March 2016
    6. Serial LEDs as a Ukulele learning tool, Raghav Subramaniam and Jeff Tian
       Circuit Cellar Magazine #309, pp 14-21, April 2016
    7. DRUMSET: Digitally Recordable, User-Modifiable, Sound Emitting Tool, Roshun Alur
       Circuit Cellar Magazine #310, pp 26-35, May 2016
    8. Sign Language glove, Roberto Villalba
       Circuit Cellar Magazine #311, pp 34-45, June 2016
  • Started converting the course to 32-bit architecture PIC32
• 2015 fall
  • Full conversion of course to PIC32 with all new labs and examples.
  • Task threading using ProtoThreads
  • Examples for: Signal processing, SPI, DMA, NTSC, TFT-LCD, CTMU
  • Eighteen groups submit projects for publication as output from a
    new technical writing seminar taught for the frist time in Spring 2016.
    The writing seminar is available for ece4760 students from 2015 and after.
  • Published student projects
    1. Real Time Instrumentation on a PIC32 Microcontroller, Syed Tahmid Mahbub and Bruce Land
       Circuit Cellar Magazine #306, pp 18-25, Jan 2016
    2. BalanceBot, Alex Spitzer and Leo Mehr
       Circuit Cellar Magazine #316, pp 24-31, Nov 2016
    3. Build a wearable synthesizer system, Sean Carroll, James Talmage, and Natalie Moore
       Circuit Cellar Magazine #316, pp 36-43, Nov 2016
    4. Medibot, Udit Gupta, Christine Hwang, Ava Tan
       Circuit Cellar Magazine #317, pp 14-21, Dec 2016
    5. Glove-controlled sketch system, Austin Lee, Andrew Bryan and Jonya Chen
       Circuit Cellar Magazine # 318, pp 16-23, Jan 2017
    6. Glove Keyboard, Vitchyr Pong and Gulnar Mirza
       Circuit Cellar Magazine # 319, pp 30- , Feb 2017
    7. A physical PIC32-based chess board, Eric Huang and Nathan Shen
       Circuit Cellar Magazine #320, pp 18-27 , March 2017
• 2016
  • Design and test two new PIC32 target board for students to build. (with Sean Carroll)
  • ProtoThreads improved thread handling, documentation, examples, and UART support.
  • Moved PIC32 lectures to Youtube (Playlist)
  • Split Youtube project videos into PIC32 (currently 69 videos) and AVR (162 videos)
  • Ten groups got mentioned on technical/maker blog hackaday.com
  • Associated course, ECE4920, a writing seminar, becomes an official course.
    The propose of the course is to convert final project reports into publishable material.
    Twenty two groups submit their projects for possible publication.
  • Published student projects
    1. Building a Robot Hand with servos and electromyography, Michael Haidar, Jason Hwang, Srikrishnaa Vadivel
       Circuit Cellar Magazine #327, pp 24-29, Oct 2017
    2. Machine Auto-sorts Resistors, Brian Gross, Nathan Lambert, Alex Parkhurst
       Circuit Cellar Magazine #328, pp 24-29, Nov 2017
    3. Building a Robotic Candy Sorter by Peter Slater and Mark (Moonyoung) Lee.
       Circuit Cellar Magazine #329, pp 10-17, Dec 2017
    4. MCU_based platform stabilizer, Jessica Chen ,Adam Chung, Ashley Xue
       Circuit Cellar Magazine #330, pp 28-33, Jan 2018
    5. Massage vest uses PIC32, Harry Freeman, Megan Leszczynski, Gargi Ratnaparkhi
       Circuit Cellar Magazine #330, pp 6-13, Jan 2018
    6. Video gaming console uses PIC32; Dongze Yuo and Yixiao Zhang
       Circuit Cellar Magazine #331, pp 6-13, Feb 2018
    7. Building a VR arm tracker; Emma Wang, Daryl Sew and Zachary Zimmerman
       Circuit Cellar Magazine #331, pp 14-19, Feb 2018
    8. Programmable Ad Hoc Mesh Newwork on PIC32; Alex Wong, Brian Clark and Raghava Kumar
       Circuit Cellar Magazine #331, pp 26-33, Feb 2018
    9. Posture Corrrector Leverates Bluetooth, Rohit Jha, Erissa Irani and Amanda Pustis
       Circuit Cellar Magazine #332, pp 16-21, March 2018
    10. Apartment Entry System Uses PIC32,Joe Featherston
        Circuit Cellar Magazine #332, pp 22-29, March 2018
• 2017
  • Deploy two new PIC32 target board for students to build.
    Rewrite labs to accomodate the change.
    Rewrite exmaples to accomodate the board change.
  • Required students to build their own target board.
  • New motor lab. PID control of a drone lift-motor on a rotating arm.
  • Ninteen groups from Fall 2017 submit their projects for possible publication.
  • Published student projects
    1. LIDAR 3D imaging on a budget, by Chris Graef
       Circuit Cellar Magazine, pp 6-11 September 2018 #338
    2. Build a Persistence-of-Vision Display: Using LEDs and PIC32, By Han Li and Emily Sun
       Circuit Cellar Magazine #339 Oct 2018 pp32-37
    3. MCU-Based Project Enhances Dance Game, By Michael Solomentsev and Drew Dunne
       Circuit Cellar Magazine #340 Nov 2018 pp20-25
    4. IoT Door Security System Uses Wi-Fi by Norman Chen, Ram Vellanki and Giacomo Di Liberto
       Circuit Cellar Magazine #341 Dec 2018 pp 6-11
    5. Self-Navigating Robots Use BLE by Jane Du and Jacob Glueck
       Circuit Cellar Magazine #341 Dec 2018 pp 26-30
    6. Vision System Enables Overlaid Images -- "Superhero Sight" By Daniel Edens and Elise Weir
       Circuit Cellar Magazine #342 Jan 2019 pp14-19
    7. Build a Self-Correcting LED Clock by Eldar Slobodyan and Jason Ben Nathan
       Circuit Cellar Magazine #343 Feb 2019 pp 6-13
    8. Guitar Video Game Uses PIC32: Realism Revamp, By Jake Podell and Jonah Wexler
       Circuit Cellar Magazine, #344, March 2019 pp6-13
    9. Smart Pet Collar Uses GPS and Wi-Fi: PIC32-Based Design, By Vidya Ramesh and Vaidehi Garg
       Circuit Cellar Magazine, #344, March 2019 pp20-25
    10. Build a PIC32-Based Recording Studio, by Radhika Chinni, Brandon Quinlan, & Raymond Xu
        Circuit Cellar Magazine #345 April 2019 pp 28-33
    11. PIC32 Tames Real-Time stock monitoring by David Valley and Saelig Khattar
        Circuit Cellar Magazine May 2019 #346 pp 10-15
    12. Robotic Arm Plays Beer Pong by Daniel Fayad, Justin Choi and Harrison Hyundong Chang
        Circuit Cellar Magazine May 2019 #346 pp 24-29
    13. Haptic Feedback Electronic Travel Aid by Aaheli Chattopadhyay, Naomi Hess and Jun Ko
        Circuit Cellar #347 June 2019 pp 12-19
    14. EOG-Controlled Video Game: Eyes as Interface, By Eric Cole, Evan Mok and Alex Huang
        Circuit Cellar #348 July 2019 pp 6-11
    15. Building a Smart Frying Pan: Connected Control for Chef, By Joseph Dwyer
        Circuit Cellar #348 July 2019 pp 26-31
    16. Build a Motor Dynamometer: Using a PIC32 MCU, By Erika Yu, Aasta Gandhi and Kowin Shi
        Circuit Cellar Magazine #373 Aug 2021 pp 16-23
        
• 2018
  • Modify Protothreads to use a better scheduler, added high-speed serial for Bluetooth communication.
  • Twenty three groups from Fall 2018 submit their projects for possible publication.
  • Published student projects
    1. Portable Digital Synthesizer, By T.J. Hurd and Ben Roberge
       Circuit Cellar Magazine #349 August 2019 pp 30-36
    2. Building a Twitter Emote Robot, By Ian Kranz, Nikhil Dhawan and Sofya Calvin
       Circuit Cellar Magazine #349 August 2019 pp 20-25
    3. Automating the Art of Toast, By Michael Xiao and Katie Bradford
       Circuit Cellar Magazine #349 August 2019 pp 6-11
    4. Building a Portable Game Console, By Juan Joel Albrecht and Leandro Dorta Duque
       Circuit Cellar Magazine #350 Sept 2019 pp 6-11
    5. Guitar Game Uses PIC32 MCU, By Brian Dempsey, Katarina Martucci and Liam Patterson
       Circuit Cellar Magazine #350 Sept 2019 pp 22-27
    6. The Laser Harp: A Twist on Modern Instruments, By Alex Hatzis
       Circuit Cellar Magazine #351, Oct 2019 pp 24-33
    7. Self Organizing Wi-Fi Mesh Network, By Daniel Weber and Michaelangelo Rodriguez
       Circuit Cellar #352, Nov 2019 pp14-19
    8. Multi-Scale Electronic Flute, By Trisha Ray, Parth Bhatt and Qing Yu
       Circuit Cellar #352, Nov 2019 pp24-29
    9. Build a Simple Quadcopter Drone, By Yijia Chen, Stewart Aslan and Thinesiya Krishnathasan
       Circuit Cellar Magazine, Dec 2019, #353 pp 14-21
    10. Motion/Gesture-Controlled Speakers : PIC32 Playback, By Jidenna Nwosu, Benjamin Francis and Ayomi Sanni
        Circuit Cellar Magazine, #354, Jan 2020 pp 6-11
    11. Sound Localization: Using a PIC32 MCU, By JinJie Chen and Alvin Pan
        Circuit Cellar Magazine, #354, Jan 2020 pp 20-26
    12. Tunable Spectrum Light Fixture: Intelligent Illumination, By Emmett Milliken
        Circuit Cellar Magazine, Issue #355, February 2020, pp 14-19
    13. Build a Rhythm Gesture Game: With RF Comms and PIC32, By Kristina Nemeth, Jennifer Fuhrer and Joshua Diaz,
        Circuit Cellar #357 April 2020, pp 6-11
    14. Build a Soap Carving System: MCU Motor Control,
        By Ho-Jung Yang and Jared Gallina Circuit Cellar #357 April 2020, pp 20-25
• 2019
  • Redo web pages for better graphics examples, keypad interface, and sound synthesis examples.
  • New lab exercise (lab 1) to make a keyboard music synthesizer.
  • Published student projects
    1. EEG Error Correction Interface: Anxiety Takes Control, By Rebecca Bell, Emma Kaufman and Chloe Kuo,
       Circuit Cellar Magazine, August 2020, #361, pp 16-21
    2. Build a Gesture-Controlled Camera Platform: Using a PIC32 MCU, By Kunpeng Huang, Siqi Qian and Xinyi Yang,
       Circuit Cellar Magazine, August 2020, #361, pp 30-37
    3. Build an NTSC Racing Video Game: Using a PIC32 MCU, By Brandon Guo, Dustin Hwang and Haley Lee,
       Circuit Cellar Magazine, July 2020 #360, pp 26-31
    4. Building a Smart Weather Cube: Using a Raspberry Pi 3B+, By Alberto Lopez Delgado and Carlos Gutierrez,
       Circuit Cellar Magazine #364 Nov 2020 pp 16-23
    5. Stringless Bass Guitar Uses PIC32: Sensors and Synthesis, By Peter Cook, Jackson Kopitz, and Caitlin Stanton,
       Circuit Cellar Magazine #364 Nov 2020 pp 34-39
    6. Balancing a Ball on a Touchscreen: Using a PID Controller, By Gregory Kaiser and Samuel Feibel,
       Circuit Cellar Magazine #363 Oct 2020 pp 30-35
    7. Forearm-Controlled Robotic Hand: Sensors and Servos, By Cassandra Scarpa and Caeli MacLennan,
       Circuit Cellar Magazine #362 Sept 2020 pp 26-33
    8. Build a Music Composition Assistant: PIC32-Based PICcompose, By Tara van Nieuwstadt, Diane Sutyak and Laasya Renganathan,
       Circuit Cellar Magazine #362 Sept 2020 pp 38-41
       
    9. EEG Error Correction Interface: Anxiety Takes Control, By Rebecca Bell, Emma Kaufman and Chloe Kuo,
       Circuit Cellar Magazine, August 2020, #361, pp 16-21
    10. Build a Gesture-Controlled Camera Platform: Using a PIC32 MCU, By Kunpeng Huang, Siqi Qian and Xinyi Yang,
        Circuit Cellar Magazine, August 2020, #361, pp 30-37
    11. Build an NTSC Racing Video Game: Using a PIC32 MCU, By Brandon Guo, Dustin Hwang and Haley Lee,
        Circuit Cellar Magazine, July 2020 #360, pp 26-31
    12. Meet Bot-Ross the drawing robot, by Sam DiPietro ,Brett Sawka ,Rohan Shah
        Servo Magazine, issue #1 2020 pp 38-45
    13. Build an Automated Fruit-Ripeness Detector: Banana Scan,
        By Christina Chang, Michelle Feng and Russell Silva
        Circuit Cellar Magazine, Jan 2021 #366, pp 14-19
    14. Build a Rubik’s-Cube-Solving Robot: Using a PIC32 MCU, By James Connelly and Shivansh Gupta
        Circuit Cellar Magazine, March 2021 #368, pp 20-25
    15. Build an RF-Controlled Robotic Car: Using Two PIC32 MCUs, By Drew Mera, Rohit Krishnakumar and Asad Marghoob,
        Circuit Cellar Magazine, April 2021 #369, pp 6-11
    16. Build a Sonar Echolocation Ranger: Using the PIC32 MCU, By Evan Kravitz and David Yang,
        Circuit Cellar Magazine, June 2021 #371, pp 6-13
        
• 2021-spring
  • V. Hunter Adams starts teaching the class
  • Hunter wrote all new labs and homework for the course.
  • Hunter devised and equiped the lab environment for remote learning for COVID-19 compliance.
  • Published projects:
    1. Build a Maze Generator and Game: Using a PIC32 MCU, By Kyle Infantino, Jack Brzozowski and Dilan Lakhani
       Circuit Cellar Magazine #379 Feb 2022 pp 18-24
    2. Make a Stochastic Music Generator: PIC32-Based Design, By William Salcedo, Rishi Singhal and Raghav Kumar
       Circuit Cellar Magazine #380 March 2022 pp 18-23
    3. Asymmetric VR Game with Custom Microcontroller Peripherals: Collaborative Game, By Cameron Haire, Michaela Bettez, and Daniel Batan
       Circuit Cellar Magazine #383 June 2022 pp 20-27
• 2021-fall
  • V. Hunter Adams is teaching the class
  • Hunter wrote all new labs (again) for the in-lab course.
    
• =======================================================
• Last update on this page 22 July 2022!
  Refer to Hunter Adams's page for future developments.
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• In 1999 we started a web page of final project reports which is updated yearly and now has
  over 400 projects for our students and others to use as reference material.
  http://people.ece.cornell.edu/land/courses/ece4760/FinalProjects/
  Cumulative page visits (Jan 1, 2008 through Dec, 2012):
  • ECE4760 main page: 218,000 visits from 107,000 people in 170 countries/regions.
  • ECE4760 projects: 1,212,000 visits from 790,000 people in 205 countries/regions.
  • We stopped logging web visits when the Google logging tools disappeared.
• In Feb 2012 we started a course YouTube channel which now serves as the main way to distribute course info.
  There are complete lecture series for the AVR architecture and PIC32 architecture,
  plus about 350 student project videos.
  Cumulative YouTube stats for Bruce's channel (Feb 2012 through July 2022)
  • Video views -- about 7.9 million
  • Time spent viewing -- about 246,000 hours
  • Subscribers -- about 35,100

Copyright Cornell University, Bruce R Land, BRL4@cornell.edu