2. Hindenburg’s Heroes EE 682 Wireless Sensing Blimp Module Team Lead – Mike Sarnovsky Co Lead – Mike LaBrie Andy Freisthler Vince Li Brant Niggemyer Tom Yantek

3. Temperature Sensor Proximity Sensor Digital Compass MCU Digital Camera Wireless Transceiver Microphone FM Radio Transmitter Servo Motors HH FM Radio Card Video Card Serial 1 MCU Wireless Transceiver NW 72 ° No Alerts No Video Sound Detected Block Diagram & Functional Overview Blimp RC Sound Card

4. MCU Blimp Controller MCU Microchip PIC 16F874 R/C pulse width modulation Receives via USART Blimp On-Board MCU Microchip PIC 16F877 SPI Slave interface A/D 8 bit, 1 channel with temperature sensor USART Comm. with Abacom transmitter Internal error checking Calibration with compass

5. Sensors Digital Compass – Vector 2x SPI output (Master Model) 16 bits BCD output Weight: 0.4 ounces Power: 5V @ 6.0 mA Temperature Sensor – National Semiconductor LM34 Analog output Linear +10.0 mV/°F scale factor.5 ºF accuracy at room temperature and -50° to +300°F range Power: 5V @ 90 μA

6. Receiver – Abacom SILRX 4xx-F Up to 20k bps Available in 418MHz, 433.92MHz and 403MHz Power: 2.7 to 5 V Up to 500ft range Wireless Communications Transmitter – Abacom TXM 4xx-F Up to 20k bps Available in 418MHz, 433.92MHz and 403MHz Power: 2.7 to 5 V Up to 500ft range

7. Beta User Interface – Visual Basic

8. MCUComm. Sensors/ VideoAudioGUIPower Mike S. LA Mike L. LA Andy F. AL Vince L. AL Brant N. AL Tom Y. ALL LA = Lead = Assistant Breakdown of Tasks by Matrix Management

9. Progress / Future Tasks Audio Components ordered Direct X 7/8 for audio stream connection to Visual Basic Integration will follow Proximity Sensor needed Video?