Caption: Engineering Open House Guide - 2009
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12 EOH 2009 will turn off and change a working light bulb. Come see crazy steps like a growing plant, dancing people, and some mysterious murders. Location: East Atrium This exhibit is suitable for: All ECE 395 ADSL The playing pieces contain rareearth magnets which are flipped during game play by electromagnets. Depending on a player’s move, the computer will automatically flip/move the appropriUIUC Biodiesel Initiative ate pieces and display the new score. UIUC Biodiesel Initiative The UIUC Biodiesel Initiative is Location: 261 a student-run project focused pri- This exhibit is suitable for: All marily on lowering the emissions of the University and promotBioshock Interactive Laing education of renewable fuel ser Tag System sources. This is done by retriev- WECE ing used vegetable oil from the Our interactive laser gun game campus dining halls and condiffers from the usual one. There verting it into environmentallyare two players involved in the friendly diesel fuel. The team is game, each armed with a “powstriving to ensure that the UIUC erful” laser gun that will allow Biodiesel Initiative becomes a them to shoot at their competitor. model for university and commu- If one of the players gets “shot”, nity biodiesel production. See their gun will be frozen and una small demonstration of the able to shoot for 5-10 seconds. simple process. At the same time, they will reLocation: 106B1 ceive a mild electric shock from This exhibit is suitable for: All their shock band worn on the wrist. Come try it out! Location: 143 Everitt Laboratory This exhibit is suitable for: All Engineering Hall Homemade Keyboard This project is an integrated circuit created by a non-engineering student. It uses a resistors, potentiometers, and a capacitor to output square wave forms and produce multiple octaves of musical notes. Each note is activated by a copper strip and it is all powered by a 9 volt battery, which means the public can press the strips and play a song. Location: 106B8 This exhibit is suitable for: Middle School, High School, College, General Public Automated Othello Marble Sorters Danville High School Using Robo Pro software and Fishertechnicks pieces, students in Principles of Engineering (a Project Lead the Way class) working in groups have designed and built their own device that will sort different colored marbles into equal groups. Location: 106B6 This exhibit is suitable for: All Rube Goldberg Machine Rube Goldberg Society A Rube Goldberg machine is a deliberately overengineered apparatus that performs a very simple task in a very complex fashion, usually using a chain reaction. Based off of the drawings of the cartoonist Rube Goldberg, each machine functions very much like the board game Mouse Trap. This year we have built a Clue themed machine that Auto-Centering Platform Bluewater Ampworks Using a touchscreen as a platform, read the position of a steel ball. From this position, calculate the difference from the center and adjust the angle of the platform with two servo motors. The calculation and adjustment is done with a Basic STAMP 2 Microcontroller from Parallax, Inc. Location: 245 This exhibit is suitable for: All A demonstration of vacuum tube guitar amplifiers and a technical discussion on their operation. Location: 260 This exhibit is suitable for: All Burning Plasma and Etching Pen IEEE The plasma-burning pen operates at high electric voltage and high frequency output to etch and burn fine inscriptions on
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