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62 Electronic Chip/Betting System
 Anand Giridharan
Umang Chavan
Varun Pitta
 Nicholas Ratajczyk design_document1.pdf
design_document2.pdf
design_document3.pdf
final_paper1.pdf
presentation1.pptx
proposal1.pdf
Original Post: https://courses.engr.illinois.edu/ece445/pace/view-topic.asp?id=31922

Problem:

Poker is one of the many card games that requires multiple components, such as a deck of cards and some type of chip system in order to keep track of money, in order to be successfully played. While most poker games are planned beforehand, there may be some unforeseen change of circumstances, such as extra players joining or a lack of chips among many others. This could create problems and cause players to make unwanted adjustments to their game.

Solution Overview:

Our solution is to create an electronic money and betting system that will serve as the main interface for keeping track of your current money, as well as adding to, or subtracting from, your current total. Within the game of poker, this solution allows the user to use this as a substitute to physical chips, enabling a larger space (no chips to occupy space on the table) for additional players to play, as well as not having the need to redistribute the already limited amount of chips if more players want to join.

Solution Components:

Controller Unit: Maintaining data, and doing arithmetic computations on it. We envision this to be able to do tasks such as raising a placed bet, adding and subtracting from a players total, allowing buy-ins, auto-splitting the values of the coins etc.

Processor Unit: Microcontroller for signal processing between RFID reader and control unit (can use Raspberry Pi)
RFID reader (RC522) to process the RFID card (using RFID MIFARE 1k chip)
https://www.instructables.com/id/RFID-Reader-Detector-and-Tilt-Sensitive-RFID-Tag/
The intention behind this is to have a way to identify which player’s turn it is to properly display and add/subtract their chips from their respective pile.

Power Unit: DIY portable solution to power the Raspberry Pi
https://www.makeuseof.com/tag/pi-go-x-ways-powering-raspberry-pi-portable-projects/ (Part 4)

Display Unit: We are planning to integrate the potential use of an LED display, but we are still considering other alternatives to this.

Drum Tutor Lite

Zhen Qin, Yuanheng Yan, Xun Yu

Drum Tutor Lite

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Team: Yuanheng Yan, Zhen Qin, Xun Yu

Vision: Rhythm games such as guitar hero are much easier than playing the actual drums. We want to make a drum tutor that makes playing drums as easy as guitar hero. The player is not required to read a sheet music.

Description: We will build a drum add-on that will tutor people how to play the drums. We will make a panel for visual queue of the drum and beats in a form similar to guitar hero game. The panel can be a N*10 (N varying with the drum kit) led bar array. Each horizontal bar will be a beat and each horizontal line above the bottom line will represent the upcoming beats.

There will be sensors on each drum that will fire when the drum heads is hit. The drums will be affixed with ring of light that provides the timing and accuracy of the player according to the sensors.

Of course with a flip of a switch, the drum could be a simple light up drum: when the player hits the drum, that particular drum will light up giving cool effects.

The system will be on a microprocessor. Or for more versatile uses, it could be connected to the computer. And a app will be written for the tutor.

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