ECEN 390 - Laser Tag Project

Class Overview

In this course you will construct a complex, multi-player laser-tag system that will help to integrate your knowledge and experience from the other three Junior-Core courses:

• ECEN 340 (Analog Circuit Design),
• ECEN 380 (Signal Processing), and
• ECEN 330 (Programming Embedded Systems).

The theories, concepts and lab exercises from these three courses combine to complete an entire system. The analog designs from ECEN 340 provide the shot-firing LED, shot-detecting photodiode and associated analog electronics. The theories and algorithms that you learned about in ECEN 380 provide the signal processing necessary to detect when a player has been shot and also to determine which player was the shooter. Finally, the programming exercises and embedded system experience from ECEn 330 will help you write the necessary ‘C’ code to create a final working system.

The process of creating the laser-tag system is broken into several milestones. This helps students to schedule their effort and to focus on specific portions of the system during implementation.