ECE434 Project Christmas Wreath

Team members: Emily Dougherty Ryan Taylor

Grading Template
I'm using the following template to grade. Each slot is 10 points. 0 = Missing, 5=OK, 10=Wow!

 09 Executive Summary 09 Packaging 09 Installation Instructions 09 User Instructions 09 Highlights 09 Theory of Operation 09 Work Breakdown 09 Future Work/Conclusions 09 Hackster.io 09 Demo/Poster 00 Late Comments: Have a good day.

Score: 90/100

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Executive Summary
We want to create a "smart" Christmas wreath that allows the user to display a pattern of LEDs and play Christmas music from a mobile app (blynk). Animations and songs will be predefined and predetermined. Currently, we have the LED strip utilizing the PRU units on the BeagleBone working correctly to display colors on a small LED ring. We plan on moving to a more complete LED strip in the next few days. We have also started development on the USB connected audio jack. We are able to play .mp3 files using the mplayer command on the command line. We believe that the most difficult part of the project will be implementing the functionality of the music player and the LED strip in parallel. To accomplish this, we plan on running separate threads for running the LEDs and playing music. We have not yet been able to successfully run these two in parallel. Overall, we hope to spread a little Christmas cheer before we leave campus at the end of the term. Both of us are excited to be able to control a Christmas wreath using a mobile application.

Packaging
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Installation Instructions
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User Instructions
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Highlights
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Theory of Operation
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Work Breakdown
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 * Brainstorm various light patterns to implement (11/5)
 * Find more songs to use (11/5)
 * Get the music to stop playing on a button press (11/6)
 * Thread the music and lights so that they occur at the same time (11/8)
 * Finalize the Blynk app (11/11)
 * Assemble final project (11/13)

Who Did What

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Future Work
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Conclusions
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