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 Huiyuan Liu
Yingquan Yu
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Warning Coverage

Team members:

Yingquan Yu, NetID: yyu47 (yyu47@illinois.edu)
Huiyuan Liu, NetID: hliu88 (hliu88@illinois.edu)

Introduce and Motives:
Leaving temporality in public but you don’t want other people to look or touch your stuff? Alarming Coverage has you covered! Simply cover your stuff, arm your blanket though phones and you are ready to leave. If anyone moves anything, it will alarm the people with sounds and send you a notification though phones.

Design and component:
The Alarming Coverage consists of two part: the control board and the blanket itself.

The main functionality of board is to alarm people around it and notify user when the blanket is moved. The board is attached to the blanket and it contains a micro controller, bluetooth module, a buzzer and a battery to collect and process all the signal from sensors. People could arm the Alarming blanket through buttons on the board or through bluetooth on the phone.

The main functionality of the blanket is to detect the malicious movement from other people. To detect, we may use the combination of but not limited to IR proximity sensor, flexible sensor or photon sensor. We planned to use flexible sensor to detect the shapes changes of the blanket, IR proximity and photon sensor to detect the surrounding object distance and light changes. To make blanket works more stably and reliably, we may add magnets or suction pads to the edge of blanket so that it could mitigate environmental effects such as wind or fans.

The blanket could be controlled remotely by the mobile phone through app and connected by Bluetooth (or potentially through wifi). Using the app, user can view the status (the shape) of the blanket by using data from the sensor.

UPDATE:
Original Title: Security Blanket
After talking with TA, we think the current title might be more proper to describe our project. The blanket is mainly used to draw other people's attention when the sensors and controllers on the blanket detects the anomaly move against it or the stuff under it. Also

El Durazno Wind Turbine Project

Alexander Hardiek, Saanil Joshi, Ganpath Karl

El Durazno Wind Turbine Project

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Partners: Alexander Hardiek (ahardi6), Saanil Joshi (stjoshi2), and Ganpath Karl (gkarl2)

Project Description: We have decided to innovate a low cost wind turbine to help the villagers of El Durazno in Guatemala access water from mountains, based on the pitch of Prof. Ann Witmer.

Problem: There is currently no water distribution system in place for the villagers to gain access to water. They have to travel my foot over larger distances on mountainous terrain to fetch water. For this reason, it would be better if water could be pumped to a containment tank closer to the village and hopefully distributed with the help of a gravity flow system.

There is an electrical grid system present, however, it is too expensive for the villagers to use. Therefore, we need a cheap renewable energy solution to the problem. Solar energy is not possible as the mountain does not receive enough solar energy to power a motor. Wind energy is a good alternative as the wind speeds and high and since it is a mountain, there is no hindrance to the wind flow.

Solution Overview: We are solving the power generation challenge created by a mismatch between the speed of the wind and the necessary rotational speed required to produce power by the turbine’s generator. We have access to several used car parts, allowing us to salvage or modify different induction motors and gears to make the system work.

We have two approaches we are taking. One method is converting the induction motor to a generator by removing the need of an initial battery input and using the magnetic field created by the magnets. The other method is to rewire the stator so the motor can spin at the necessary rpm.

Subsystems: Our system components are split into two categories: Mechanical and Electrical. All mechanical components came from a used Toyota car such as the wheel hub cap, serpentine belt, car body blade, wheel hub, torsion rod. These components help us covert wind energy into mechanical energy and are already built and ready. Meanwhile, the electrical components are available in the car such as the alternator (induction motor) and are designed by us such as the power electronics (AC/DC converters). We will use capacitors, diodes, relays, resistors and integrated circuits on our printed circuit boards to develop the power electronics. Our electrical components convert the mechanical energy in the turbine into electrical energy available to the residents.

Criterion for success: Our project will be successful when we can successfully convert the available wind energy from our meteorological data into electricity at a low cost from reusable parts available to the residents of El Durazno. In the future, their residents will prototype several versions of our turbine to pump water from the mountains.