Project

# Title Team Members TA Documents Sponsor
31 Small electronic parts management system
 Chao Cao
Chengcheng Huang
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The project we are planning to do is a small electronic part management system. Because there are many students go to lab every day and they will ask TA for small electronic part such as resistors or chips, so it hard for TA or lab staff to manage the electronic part in the lab. For my own experiment, several times I went to ask for some electronic part and TA check the drawer and told me it's out of stock. Our system will help to prevent and solve this kind of problems. The basic function of this system is to help the lab staffs know how many numbers of each electronic part left in the drawer and help them manage the lab much easier.
We will place a metal bar on each drawer and it will connect the 2 wires on the back of the drawer, When the drawer is opened, the metal bar and wires disconnect and there will be a signal sent to the UI and UI will show a message such as "7404 chips has been choose, please enter the number added or taken." If we want to add, press button first. If we want to take, press - button first. Then we can enter the number through a numeric keyboard. Finally, we use XBEE to transfer the changes of item numbers to the inventory in the computer.

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There is a drastic lack of networking infrastructure in unstable or remote areas, where businesses don’t think they can reliably recoup the large initial cost of construction. Our goal is to bring the internet to these areas. We will use a network of extremely affordable (<$20, made possible by IoT technology) solar-powered nodes that communicate via Wi-Fi with one another and personal devices, donated through organizations such as OLPC, creating an intranet. Each node covers an area approximately 600-800ft in every direction with 4MB/s access and 16GB of cached data, saving valuable bandwidth. Internal communication applications will be provided, minimizing expensive and slow global internet connections. Several solutions exist, but all have failed due to costs of over $200/node or the lack of networking capability.

To connect to the internet at large, a more powerful “server” may be added. This server hooks into the network like other nodes, but contains a cellular connection to connect to the global internet. Any device on the network will be able to access the web via the server’s connection, effectively spreading the cost of a single cellular data plan (which is too expensive for individuals in rural areas). The server also contains a continually-updated several-terabyte cache of educational data and programs, such as Wikipedia and Project Gutenberg. This data gives students and educators high-speed access to resources. Working in harmony, these two components foster economic growth and education, while significantly reducing the costs of adding future infrastructure.