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Group 2022-04 Status completed
Title ELEC 273 laboratory printer switch
Supervisor D. Qiu
Description ELEC273/275 heavily rely on a laser printer to print their oscillograms. Current setup connects 10 oscilloscopes to one printer via serial interface (RS-232). The printer in the lab is quite old and needs to be replaced. Nowadays, printers with serial interface are difficult to find; printers with USB interface are the most common. Printers with other interfaces (e.g. Ethernet) can be considered as well. Students will design and implement a switch that takes serial (RS-232) inputs from the oscilloscopes and interfaces them with a new printer (USB). Additional features: - the system should allow for remote monitoring and error reporting; - print on the oscillogram: o the date and time of the screenshot; o students’ section and names. - Other features to be discussed with the lab coordinator.
Requirement - Analogue and digital electronics (ELEC311, 312). - Microcontroller systems design. - Microcontroller programming. - GUI design. - Web server. - Databases.
Tools - Oscilloscope - Logic analyser - DMM - Function generator - Power supply - C, Java
Number of Students 6
Students M. Nessim, M. Maksimos, Y.L. Wu, M. Walbaum, A. Kordi, A. Imran
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