Introduction to engineering a starter's guide with hands-on digital multimedia and robotics explorations /

This lecture provides a hands-on glimpse of the field of electrical and computer engineering. The broad range of hands-on applications utilize LabVIEW and the NI-SPEEDY-33 hardware to explore concepts such as basic computer input and output, basic robotic principals, and introductory signal processi...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Karam, Lina J., 1968-
Other Authors: Mounsef, Naji.
Format: Electronic
Language:English
Published: San Rafael, Calif. (1537 Fourth Street, San Rafael, CA 94901 USA) : Morgan & Claypool Publishers, c2008.
Series:Synthesis lectures on engineering (Online) ; #7.
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Table of Contents:
  • Getting familiar with LabVIEW and SPEEDY-33
  • Overview
  • Background
  • Signal and time representation
  • Structures in LabVIEW, while loop, for loop, case
  • Experiment
  • Hardware and software setup
  • A/D and D/A conversion
  • Displaying signals in time domain
  • Debugging techniques
  • Applications using LEDs and switches using the SPEEDY-33
  • Noise removal
  • Music equalizer
  • Telephone
  • Digital audio effects: echo and reverb
  • Music composer
  • Creating digital music
  • Experiment
  • Music composer
  • Introduction to robotics
  • Equipment/tools
  • Experiment
  • Bump sensor detection program
  • Basic robotic program
  • Counter program
  • AM radio
  • AM modulation/demodulation
  • Experiment
  • AM transmitter
  • AM receiver
  • Modem
  • What is a modem
  • Experiment
  • Digital image processing fundamentals
  • Digital image processing concepts
  • Experiment
  • Histogram equalization
  • Thresholding
  • Applications using USB camera
  • Acquiring image using USB camera
  • Simple USB camera image acquisition
  • USB camera video acquisition
  • Basic machine vision with USB camera.