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My assignment was to develop five projects based on electronics which can be used in daily life and provide documentation for the digital design course in Halmstad University. They needed handouts for 5 projects. The handouts must contain basic information about the techniques that were used, breadboard layouts and C-code's from the programs. As projects I created daily usable devices, like 'Music-Bottles'. This is a project that can be mount under a table. When you integrate RFID tags in objects and you place them on the table, the table will play the song from the RFID-tag. The second project that was created is 'Domoticz'. This is based on a Bluetooth connection with an Android phone. The connection will be used to switch LED's on and off, on the Arduino. Analog value will also be measured on the Arduino and send to the phone app. Another project that was made is 'The Finder'. Everybody sometimes loses his keys and so on. This device will make it possible to find your objects through a webpage with speech recognition, with the help of Wi-Fi connected objects. The next two projects where build around heartrates. The first one measures your heartrate and will calm you down when your heartrate is too high. The other project 'Heartrate music-player' is a music player that will play music with the same BPM as your heartrate. This can be used when you go skiing. This was all very educational. I learned a lot about microcontrollers and wireless techniques.

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During the master year at the university KU Leuven campus Geel we have to make a thesis. I did my master’s thesis with the company MAGICS Instruments. The thesis will describe how everything was done and built during my time at MAGICS Instruments. The topic of my master’s thesis was to create a wireless network capable of measuring the accumulated radiation dose. The accumulated radiation dose is the radiation dose acquired over a certain time period. The first chapter introduces MAGICS Instruments. In the second chapter a literature study is done to investigate all the required components to compose the wireless network. The only requirement of the company was to use the ultra wideband protocol (UWB). With this information the required components for wireless network where investigated. Micro-controller platforms where studied to control the UWB modules and radiation module. Several battery technologies where reviewed and development tools selected. With this information I started searching for the required components, software, programming devices, routers,... . After studying the most common hardware and software techniques I started building the electrical diagram of the first prototype. In chapter 3 the design of the platform is explained. The first prototype was based on an Arduino Nano and some basic electronics. Later on, during the programming and testing, there were some problems with the hardware timer and with the noise on the power supply. Furthermore, debugging was found to be difficult because the value of a variable was only visible trough a print statement on the serial console. For these reasons, a second microcontroller was chosen that could be used with the existing Printed Circuit Boards (PCBs). Once I found this micro-controller, the project went on with some up and downs in the programming. After successful tests of the basic communications and read-out of the radiation sensor, a new PCB was designed to accommodate with the short comings of the second prototype. I went further to create my own electrical diagram. This way I didn’t need a prebuilt Arduino-like board, where the microcontroller is already programmed with a boot loader etc. Ten prototype boards were manufactured after the electrical diagram was made and reviewed. A lot of soldering work, measuring and controlling the PCB was done. That’s the moment I started rewriting some parts of the software from before and to let the current software interact with the new hardware. The interaction between software and hardware is important because not many peripherals are used, so it must be as optimal as possible. That’s the reason that I used some API’s and libraries that are already optimized through the manufacturing to control the peripherals of the microcontroller and the UWB module. Afterwards I could continue writing my application software. By the end of the thesis it was possible to communicate with one node for unlimited time, and with multiple nodes for a limited time. In chapter 4, a demonstration is given of all the hardware developed during this thesis and screenshots of the software will be given. Why there where multiple prototypes and why some decisions are made during the development. Also there will be explained which tools I used to develop everything: the use of the right tools can save you a lot of time. I hope you will enjoy it and that you will learn something of what I did.

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