Need design project ideas
aaburto99
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I'm in the last year of my Electrical Engineering program at the University of Alberta, and I have to take a design project course where they give us a $150 CDN budget and we have to propose, design, and build something that has to do with Electrical Engineering.
I want to do something audio related, but I need some ideas. I've thought about building a cheap Dolby Surround decoder but that doesn't seem very useful other than learning how it's done, and a cheap version (basically just extracting the surround info from the left and right channels) isn't complex enough.
I also thought about building an automatic speaker calibrator, where I use an SPL to measure the sound levels from each speaker and send the feedback to the receiver to adjust each speaker accordingly. Again, not that useful since it's not hard to do manually, but it meets the poject requirements and makes use of several different principles in electrical engineering. However, I don't know how different receivers adjust the power output of each channel. Is there a standard that all receivers use? Or will doing this project with one receiver mean that it will work with this and only this receiver?
I also thought about building my own SPL, which doesn't seem that hard, but I kind of want to do something a little more complicated than that.
Can any of you think of any ideas for a project? Is there something you thought would be cool to do, or some feature you wish existed in your gear? Any comments or suggestions would be appreciated.
Thanks.
I want to do something audio related, but I need some ideas. I've thought about building a cheap Dolby Surround decoder but that doesn't seem very useful other than learning how it's done, and a cheap version (basically just extracting the surround info from the left and right channels) isn't complex enough.
I also thought about building an automatic speaker calibrator, where I use an SPL to measure the sound levels from each speaker and send the feedback to the receiver to adjust each speaker accordingly. Again, not that useful since it's not hard to do manually, but it meets the poject requirements and makes use of several different principles in electrical engineering. However, I don't know how different receivers adjust the power output of each channel. Is there a standard that all receivers use? Or will doing this project with one receiver mean that it will work with this and only this receiver?
I also thought about building my own SPL, which doesn't seem that hard, but I kind of want to do something a little more complicated than that.
Can any of you think of any ideas for a project? Is there something you thought would be cool to do, or some feature you wish existed in your gear? Any comments or suggestions would be appreciated.
Thanks.
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How about a AC power conditioner or tube amp. Maybe that is too easy for but that is what I would build. If I could.Graham
