Foundations
Touch-controlled lighting
A capacitive touch input triggers a configurable lighting output and records the event.
- System
- Inputs, logic, interfaces, and outputs
- Evidence
- Configuration, tests, results, and revisions
Projects
Reference projects for physical systems.
These projects show how inputs, logic, and outputs can be combined for lighting, environmental control, access, exhibits, robotics, and sensing.
Project method
A repeatable sequence from question to physical behavior.
The application can change—from a greenhouse to a robot—while the underlying process remains consistent.
- Define
Document the need, intended behavior, users, and constraints.
- Input
Select the sensors, controls, cameras, credentials, or network events.
- Logic
Specify conditions, timing, permissions, sequences, and safeguards.
- Output
Connect the required lights, audio, displays, relays, motors, or equipment.
- Revise
Test the integrated system, record results, and update the design.
Project gallery
Eleven reference implementations.
Each project documents a different combination of physical inputs, programmable behavior, interfaces, and outputs.
Showing all 11 projects.
Automation
Temperature-controlled ventilation
Temperature thresholds start and stop a ventilation fan with defined hysteresis and state history.
- System
- Inputs, logic, interfaces, and outputs
- Evidence
- Configuration, tests, results, and revisions
Environment
Wireless classroom environmental monitor
Distributed nodes report temperature, humidity, and air-quality measurements to a local hub.
- System
- Inputs, logic, interfaces, and outputs
- Evidence
- Configuration, tests, results, and revisions
Access
Tap-to-open tool cabinet
An RFID credential is checked against permissions before a cabinet relay changes state and logs the result.
- System
- Inputs, logic, interfaces, and outputs
- Evidence
- Configuration, tests, results, and revisions
Human interaction
QR-controlled interactive exhibit
A recognized visual marker triggers coordinated lighting, audio, display, or motion outputs.
- System
- Inputs, logic, interfaces, and outputs
- Evidence
- Configuration, tests, results, and revisions
Automation
Automated greenhouse
Environmental readings and schedules control irrigation, ventilation, and supplemental lighting.
- System
- Inputs, logic, interfaces, and outputs
- Evidence
- Configuration, tests, results, and revisions
Environment
Leak and water-level monitor
Water sensors trigger local audio or visual alerts and record the condition for follow-up.
- System
- Inputs, logic, interfaces, and outputs
- Evidence
- Configuration, tests, results, and revisions
Human interaction
Accessible voice-operated room controller
Voice and alternative controls operate lighting, audio, and environmental outputs with clear feedback.
- System
- Inputs, logic, interfaces, and outputs
- Evidence
- Configuration, tests, results, and revisions
Vision
Visual inventory station
A camera reads item markers and records recognized identity, location, time, and resulting workflow state.
- System
- Inputs, logic, interfaces, and outputs
- Evidence
- Configuration, tests, results, and revisions
Robotics
Small mobile machine
Distance and route inputs drive a constrained mobile platform with motion limits and manual control.
- System
- Inputs, logic, interfaces, and outputs
- Evidence
- Configuration, tests, results, and revisions
Capstones
Student-designed capstone
An independently defined project documents requirements, architecture, implementation, tests, and revisions.
- System
- Inputs, logic, interfaces, and outputs
- Evidence
- Configuration, tests, results, and revisions
From reference build to independent project
Reference projects establish patterns that can be recombined.
A reference implementation establishes a tested input–logic–output pattern. An independent project can reuse that pattern with different hardware, conditions, interfaces, or behavior.
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