Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

6.111 - Introductory Digital Systems Laboratory

Project Suggestions

In past years, a great variety of projects have been successfully completed. The following is a list of some of these completed final project reports.

All the project reports listed below are on file in 38-684. You may sign out any one for an overnight loan or for reading in the lab. You are free to make a copy of part or all of a report if you want to keep it for a longer time. The best and most interesting of your project reports will be used to augment this list for future terms.

It is often more satisfying to have projects which do something in addition to blinking LEDs. Examples are audio output, TV monitors, or VDT terminal displays.

Be careful - most unsuccessful projects were too complex. We will help you to size your project appropriately.

• Computer/Editor/Graphics

  94-8

  Video Editing in Real Time
  

  94-11

  OSCAR, Optical Character Recognition Machine
  

  94-16

  Digital Oscilloscope
  

  95-7

  A Digital Parrot
  

  96-3

  Visually Controlled Pointer Device
  

  96-7

  An Object Tracker
  

  96-15

  A Personal Location and Navigation System at MIT
  

  97-4

  Stretch
  

  97-9

  Digital Postscript Imager
  

  2000-2

  The Design and Implementation of a Digital Oscilloscope
  

  2000-3

  6.111 Digital Pet Student
  

  2000-4

  Brushfire: A Hardware Platform for Running a Modern Operating System
  

  2000-8

  Design and Implementation of a General Purpose Computer based on the 6.004 Beta Architecture
  

  2001-15

  JPEG Decompression
  

  2002-6

  Design and Implementation of a Mandelbrot Set Generator
  

• Games

  90-1

  Video Jigsaw
  

  90-5

  MEMRUC - The Game
  

  90-7

  Digital Othello
  

  90-8

  Connect Four Machine
  

  90-10

  Master Mind - A Video Game
  

  92-9

  Nerd Kit Asteroids
  

  93-16

  Tetris
  

  94-18

  The 6.111 Pinball Machine
  

  95-1

  Virtual Kaboom
  

  95-6

  B-n-B Space Invaders
  

  96-4

  Battleship
  

  96-6

  The Pinball Project
  

  97-1

  The Amazing Maze
  

  97-7

  Ninja Master Fighting Game
  

  98-1

  Core Wars
  

  98-9

  Main Battle Tank
  

  98-12

  Sign Language Hangman
  

  98-16

  Automated Foosball
  

  99-9

  Electronic Talking Battleship
  

  99-11

  Pac-Man
  

  99-14

  Wireless Marksmanship Trainer
  

  99-17

  Air Connect Four
  

  99-21

  3-D Maze Navitgation
  

  2000-5

  Stoplight Pitch Nintendo Shifting Controller Entertainmenet System
  

  2001-3

  CTF.111 (Capture the Flag)
  

  2001-5

  Super Mario Brothers
  

  2001-8

  Monkey Box: an 8-bit Video Game platform
  

  2001-13

  Mole Dance Revolution - A 6.111 Interactive Workout
  

  2002-5

  Nibbles
  

• Music/Audio

  90-3

  A Digital Music Synthesize
  

  90-4

  A MIDI Controlled Digital Music Synthesizer [MIDI]
  

  90-12

  The Magic Music Machine
  

  90-14

  $\Gamma$: The Musical Project
  

  90-15

  The MIDI Transceiver
  

  91-1

  Air Piano
  

  91-4

  Elevator Music
  

  91-7

  Optical Music Recognition
  

  92-4

  Playing the sax, or whatever you want
  

  93-4

  Programmable Multi-Channel Sound Synthesizer
  

  94-5

  The Digital DJ
  

  94-9

  The Multi-Mode Windowing Subtitling Machine
  

  94-10

  Super Sampling Sound Sequencer
  

  94-13

  The Digital Graphic Equalizer
  

  95-4

  Self-calibrating Audio Equalizer
  

  95-13

  The Accompanist
  

  95-14

  Bach's Napkin
  

  96-11

  BPM 2001: A Digital Odyssey
  

  97-2

  The Virtual Conductor
  

  98-6

  Digital Surround Sound Processor
  

  98-17

  Humanoid Robot Ear Sound Localization
  

  99-22

  Digital Air Band
  

  2001-7

  Programmable Symphony
  

  2001-9

  The Digital DJ
  

  2001-14

  Rhythm Master
  

  2002-1

  Music Capturing, Editing, and Playback Unit
  

• Video

  90-9

  Video House of Mirrors
  

  90-16

  Video Jigsaw
  

  91-5

  The MCG-30 Raster Image Processor
  

  91-6

  Smart Vision
  

  92-1

  The $6000 Answer to AT&T's $1500 Videophone
  

  92-5

  Video Tracker
  

  92-8

  Digital Darkroom
  

  93-5

  Video Edge Detection System
  

  93-9

  Digitial Video Mixing Board
  

  93-10

  Air Sketcher
  

  93-11

  Killer Crayons!
  

  93-15

  Recursive Picture Manipulation
  

  94-2

  Digital Poisson Engine
  

  94-7

  Video ``Go''
  

  94-12

  Video Chromakeying
  

  95-11

  Picture in Picture
  

  95-12

  Intelligent Picture-in-Picture Video
  

  96-1

  Design and Implementation of a PONG Game
  

  96-2

  Relatime Video Motion Detection
  

  96-5

  The Digital Conductor
  

  96-8

  Video Phone
  

  96-14

  Real Time Sky Navigation Aid
  

  98-3

  Downtown Traffic Control Simulator
  

  98-4

  3-D Vector Graphics Engine
  

  98-5

  The Speed Detector
  

  98-10

  Design and Implementation of a Target Finding and Termination system
  

  98-14

  GEORDI: Generalized Enhancement of Real-time Digital Imagery
  

  98-18

  S.I.M.A.E.D. Still Image Magnification and Enhancement Device
  

  99-10

  RC4 Video Encryption
  

  99-13

  Touchscreen Phone
  

  99-20

  A Closed-Caption Decoder
  

  2001-6

  Mr. Etch-a-Sketch
  

  2001-2

  A Digital Video Security System
  

  2001-10

  Visual Target Tracking System
  

  2002-7

  Magnetic GamePen
  

• Speech and Communications

  93-3

  Telephone Switching System with Voicemail
  

  93-17

  Speech Synthesis Using Linear Predictive Coding
  

  93-18

  A Single Phone Line Demultiplexor
  

  95-2

  Time Multiplexed Single Line Communication System
  

  96-12

  Interactive Tic-Tac-Toe with Speech Recognition
  

  97-5

  Robotic Dog with Speech Control
  

  98-2

  A Flexible Dual Tone Multi Frequency Filter
  

  98-11

  A Voice Based Data Acquisition System
  

  98-21

  Home Security System with Telephone Interface
  

  2001-4

  Magnetic Card Reader
  

  2001-16

  Smooth Operator: The 6.111 Morse code Interpreter
  

  2002-8

  Text Translator
  

• Robotics

  90-2

  2-D Robot Arm Solving the Shuttle Puzzle Mechanically
  

  92-6

  Robothello
  

  94-6

  Seeing, Object-collecting Robot
  

  96-13

  The Digital Duck Terminator
  

  98-15

  Robot See, Robot do
  

  98-20

  To Mars and Beyond
  

  99-12

  Bipedal Walking Robot
  

  2000-1

  Theseus
  

  2000-6

  Writing Robot
  

  2000-7

  OJ Rover
  

  2001-11

  Writing Robot
  

  2002-2

  The ``A-Mazing'' Robot *Starring Hank the Tank
  

• Miscellaneous

  87-1

  A Real Time Spectrum Analyzer with FFT
  

  87-12

  The Life Machine
  

  90-13

  Super Paint
  

  92-2

  ASPIRE Audio Signal Processor Ideally Realm Exclusive
  

  92-3

  Digital Patchbay
  

  93-2

  MAP (Map Algorithm Processing)
  

  93-6

  6.111 Lab 3 Sights and Sounds Unlimited: A Laser Light Show
  

  94-4

  The Conniption Machine
  

  94-15

  Dream Machine
  

  94-17

  Elevator Control System
  

  93-7

  Laser Diagnosis System
  

  95-3

  Attitude Control System for a Small Satellite
  

  95-5

  Infrared Security System
  

  95-8

  Chaotic Scrambler/Descrambler
  

  96-9

  Internet Message Board
  

  98-13

  Sonar with Pulse Compression
  

  99-15

  Digital Pet Parrot
  

  99-16

  Digital Billboard
  

  99-18

  Barrier-clearning Video Controlled Electronic Target-seeking Car
  

  2001-12

  Power Wheels: An Autonomous Driving Machine
  

  2002-3

  Automatic Autobahn
  

  2002-4

  Digital Bookmark