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# Title Team Members TA Documents Sponsor
62 Electronic Chip/Betting System
 Anand Giridharan
Umang Chavan
Varun Pitta
 Nicholas Ratajczyk design_document1.pdf
design_document2.pdf
design_document3.pdf
final_paper1.pdf
presentation1.pptx
proposal1.pdf
Original Post: https://courses.engr.illinois.edu/ece445/pace/view-topic.asp?id=31922

Problem:

Poker is one of the many card games that requires multiple components, such as a deck of cards and some type of chip system in order to keep track of money, in order to be successfully played. While most poker games are planned beforehand, there may be some unforeseen change of circumstances, such as extra players joining or a lack of chips among many others. This could create problems and cause players to make unwanted adjustments to their game.

Solution Overview:

Our solution is to create an electronic money and betting system that will serve as the main interface for keeping track of your current money, as well as adding to, or subtracting from, your current total. Within the game of poker, this solution allows the user to use this as a substitute to physical chips, enabling a larger space (no chips to occupy space on the table) for additional players to play, as well as not having the need to redistribute the already limited amount of chips if more players want to join.

Solution Components:

Controller Unit: Maintaining data, and doing arithmetic computations on it. We envision this to be able to do tasks such as raising a placed bet, adding and subtracting from a players total, allowing buy-ins, auto-splitting the values of the coins etc.

Processor Unit: Microcontroller for signal processing between RFID reader and control unit (can use Raspberry Pi)
RFID reader (RC522) to process the RFID card (using RFID MIFARE 1k chip)
https://www.instructables.com/id/RFID-Reader-Detector-and-Tilt-Sensitive-RFID-Tag/
The intention behind this is to have a way to identify which player’s turn it is to properly display and add/subtract their chips from their respective pile.

Power Unit: DIY portable solution to power the Raspberry Pi
https://www.makeuseof.com/tag/pi-go-x-ways-powering-raspberry-pi-portable-projects/ (Part 4)

Display Unit: We are planning to integrate the potential use of an LED display, but we are still considering other alternatives to this.

Logic Circuit Teaching Board

Younas Abdul Salam, Andrzej Borzecki, David Lee

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Partners: Younas Abdul Salam, Andrzej Borzecki, David Lee

The proposal our group has is of creating a board that will be able to teach students about logic circuits hands on. The project will consist of a board and different pieces that represent gates. The board will be used to plug in the pieces and provide power to the internal circuitry of the pieces. The pieces will have a gate and LEDs inside, which will be used to represent the logic at the different terminals.

By plugging in and combining gates, students will be able to see the actual effect on logic from the different combinations that they make. To add to it, we will add a truth table that can be used to represent inputs and outputs required, for example, for a class project or challenge. The board will be able to read the truth table and determine whether the logic the student has created is correct.

This board can act as a great learning source for students to understand the working of logic circuits. It can be helpful in teaching logic design to students in high schools who are interested in pursuing a degree in Electrical Engineering.

Please comment on whether the project is good enough to be approved, and if there are any suggestions.

Thank you