Achievement: People Choice Award

Team Members:

• Trung C. Nguyen
• Heber Cruz Zurian
• Rogelio Cruz Lopez

A small project was implemented within 48 hours in EMECS-thon 2016 (a competition for Embedded System students between 6 universities in Europe - students have 48 hours to learn about a new micro-controller and develop their own projects running on this)

• Platform: Gecko 3700 starter kit
• IDE: Simplicity
• Programming language: C

Topic description

The system receives commands and accelerometer data from an Android smartphone. Basing on the command, it will perform in according operation modes Basically, the system has 2 operation modes.

• Manual mode, movement of the plate is adjusted based on the movement the smartphone (extract data from accelerometer)
• Automatic mode, performing self-balancing which means the system be able to hold the ball at the center of the plate in every circumstance

Communication part

• The system communicate with Android smartphones by using an extra bluetooth module (HC-05), this module is connected with micro-controller through USART.

  Sensors and actuators

• Infrared sensors and LEDs are used to detect location of a ball.

• Actuators are 2 servomotors which control the angles of plate based on PWM signal generated by micro-controller.

#####Setup git

1. Download and install git for linux/windows
2. Open terminal or git bash
3. Set your name $git config --global user.name ""
4. Set your mail address $git conifg --global user.email email@xx.com

#####Create blink project

1. Open Simplicity Studio and Simplicity IDE
2. File->New->Silicon Labs MCU Project
3. Next->Example->STK3700_blink->Copy contents->Finish

#####Get the current version

1. Open terminal or git bash
2. Go to a location of your choice
3. Clone repository $git clone https://github.com/nguyencanhtrung/emecsthon2016-TUKL.git
4. Copy all files in project folder STK3700_blink. Overwrite all files if necessary. Do not forget the hidden folder .git!
5. Check status $git status