Future project ideas
Projects for external clients
- Holiday light/smoke/bubble display for "Winter Spirit" event in Lewiston, ID
- Upgrade batteries for Lewis-Clark Valley MPO traffic camera units (OEM battery model no longer available, must find battery combination as suitable replacement)
- Model rocketry payloads for Lewiston High School engineering students (digital datalogger; telemetry link between rocket and ground station; altimeter; airspeed sensor; accelerometer)
Projects for the EET program
- Promotional system: "People-Counter" with optical sensors and digital readout
- Promotional system: video kiosk showing visitors what the program is all about (using "feh" image-viewing software?)
- DC power supply for CB radio transceiver
- DC power grid (substation breaker assemblies; current monitor; SCADA nodes for monitoring voltage, current, and breaker statuses; battery stations; battery charge controllers)
- Polyphase AC power grid (motor-generator sets; DC motor speed controls; substation breaker assemblies with line and load CTs; station power systems)
- Wi-Fi controlled rescue robots (first-person camera; track/wheel controls)
- Wi-Fi controlled battle robots (same as above, but with laser cannons and light sensors to disable controls when hit)
- High-current power supply (at least 20 Amperes) for testing in lab
- Digital wall clock (decodes IRIG-B signal from satellite clock module for precise timing)
- Portable weather station (radio telemetry link back to classroom)
- Oven temperature control
- Wind turbine