ECE 110 Laboratory

Welcome to the ECE 110 Laboratory - SPRING 2008

Closing time ~

~ "Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end."
Good luck on your finals and take care.
- The ECE110 Crew -

Watch some cool videos from this semester:
The Landmaster.
Ride onboard an ECE110 car.

* On a side note, if you made it into the Hall of Fame you are now searchable on Google. ;)

FINAL DESIGN CHALLENGE is closer than you think - Your goal during every moment in the lab from now until the design challenge is to focus your efforts towards your final design. The track will be a continuous piece of white with several challenging stretches before it ends at a white piece of paper. Below is a possible final track - the proportions and dimensions are not really to scale but this should give you an idea of what you will be facing, along with the point distributions.

Use your time well. Keep your circuit neat and laid out according to a plan. Approach the design process modularly. Assess where you should spend most of your time - some parts of the track are worth more than others.

Laboratory Grade Breakdown

Assignment Type	Comments	Possible Points	Graded Points
Lab reports	10 labs @ 12 points each	120	120
Final Design Challenge	point breakdown below	50	40
Final Report	guidelines are below	20	20
Effort	points taken away for poor lab participation, attitude, and hording	20	20
	Total	210	200

As you can see, during the design challenge you are able to gain 10 extra points which will be added to the total lab grade. Unfortunately, if your final score is over 200 the extra points cannot be applied to help with your lecture grade.

Final Track example

Here is an good example of the final track that you run your car on. There are four (4) places you can start on the track marked in magenta. There are rules about where you can start your trials which are listed below.

Points breakdown

Portion	Points Possible
Gentle Curves	10.0
Zig-Zags Curves	10.0
Right Angles	10.0
Split Detection	2.5
Color Detection	2.5
Navigate White Split	2.5
Navigate Red Split	2.5
Stopping	5.0
Perfect Run	5.0
Total	50.0

You can earn partial credit on the curves depending on how far you get on them. The rest are all or none points. The points accumulate each run, so if you get points for a part on a trial, you do not have to rerun the part to keep the points. The track is graded out of 40 points.

Rules for Final Track

● Each teams has five (5) trials at the track
● Once the car has started it cannot be stopped or touched. Doing so will end the trial. This includes hitting/bumping/tilting the table.
● The car may not skip any significant portion of the track. The term significant will be determined by the TA's and the professor.
● At least two judges must be present (some combination of TAs and professors) during each attempt at the path. They will resolve any conflict and their decisions are final. Any request will be considered by them and decided upon. However, (and this is important) all requests must be made before the team has completed all five trials.
● The first trial you must start at the start point at the beginning of the gentle curves
● After that trial you can start at either of the start points before the splits.
● If your car get to start point before the right angles you can start there in the following trials
● Only four things maybe changed on your car between trials
        Sensor bar height(s)
        Bumper height and if it is attached or not
        Variable resistor setting
        Battery (if it is clearly needed)
● You cannot change the following things once we have started the final track runs
        Sensor and sensor bar placement
        The circuitry on the car

ECE 110 Laboratory

Points breakdown

Rules for Final Track

Final Design Information