P07001: ARC Communication Board

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1 Summary
- 1.1 Mission Statement
- 1.2 Project Readiness Package
2 General Project Uploads
3 Sub-System Pages
4 Wiki Help

Summary

An individual at the Arc of Monroe County would like a way to communicate with others. This individual can hear and understand others, and has normal vision, but is unable to speak. The Arc has requested a picture-based communication board that will allow this individual to touch graphic elements on a screen or keyboard to construct simple sentences or phrases. The device will either display the sentence or speak the sentence for the individual.

This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under Award No. BES-0527358. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.

**Staffing**
Team Member	Discipline	Role	email address
Elizabeth DeBartolo	ME	Guide	eademe@rit.edu
Daniel Phillips	EE	Consultant	dbpeee@rit.edu
Ryan Larcom	ME	Project Manager & Mechanical Sub-system Lead	smurf@mail.rit.edu
George Shieh	EE	Lead Engineer & Software Sub-system Co-Lead	gxs8716@rit.edu
Travis Driscoll	EE	Component & Product Sub-system Lead	sisu1331@yahoo.com
Suesie Kim	EE	Software Sub-system Lead	suesiekim@gmail.com
Salim Maani	ISE	ISE Sub-system Lead	salimsc@gmail.com
Jeff Park	EE	Embedded Hardware Sub-system Lead	jyp9752@rit.edu

Additional support for this project was provided by ELO Touch Systems

Mission Statement

This project will be initiated during the Fall Quarter, 2006-1, with two other projects from the Assistive Devices family of projects in the Assistive Devices and Bioengineering Track. All three projects share a focus of providing a robust, configurable and easy to manipulate, embedded processor based user interface that will facilitate the activities of individuals with a particular physical challenge.

**Related Projects**
Project	Title	Start Term	End Term
P07000	Assistive Devices and Bioengineering Track	2006-1	On-going
P07002	Two way communication board	2006-1	2006-2
P07003	Mobile Camera Control System	2006-1	2006-2
P07004	Mobile Camera Positioning Platform	2006-2	2006-3

Project Readiness Package

The Project Readiness Page documents customer needs and expectations, project deliverables (including time frame), budget, and personnel / organizations affiliated with the project. It will serve as the primary source of information for students necessary during Phase 0 (Planning) to develop a SD I plan and schedule including specific deliverables and due dates. The Project Readiness Package will also support Faculty evaluation of project suitability in terms of depth, scope, and student / faculty resources by discipline.

General Project Uploads

This section is for documentation common to the overall project. For specific sub-sections' documents, see the individual sub-section pages

Senior Design I (Fall 20061)

Schedules
- 11-week Project Schedule (Adobe PDF)
- 11-week Project Schedule MPP (MS Project)
Project Summary
- 1-Page Project Summary (MS Word)
Customer Needs
- Need-Metric Categorization (MS Excel)
- Need-Metric Evaluation (MS Excel)
- QFD (MS Excel)
Initial Concepts
- Concept Generation (MS Excel)
- Functional Block Diagram JPG (JPEG)
- Functional Block Diagram (MS Viseo)
Critical Sub-functions
- Critical Sub-functions Matrix (MS Excel)
BOM & Budget
- Prelim BOM (MS Excel)
- Budget (MS Excel)- as of 11/3/2006
Test Plan
- Test Plan (MS Word)

Senior Design II (Spring 20063)

Schedules
- Winter Schedule (Adobe PDF)
- Spring Schedule (Adobe PDF)
- Last 2 Weeks Schedule (MS Word)
Customer Needs
- Product Specifications Agreement (MS Word)
BOM & Budget
- Budget, Bill of Materials (5-11-2007)(MS Excel)
Risk Assessment
- Risk Assessment - During Production (MS Excel)
- Risk Assessment - Post Production - In Progress (MS Excel)
Manuals
- Touch Screen/LCD (Adobe PDF)
- Single Board Computer (Adobe PDF)
- Single Board Computer CPU (Adobe PDF)
- Flash Drive (Adobe PDF)
- Battery (Adobe PDF)
- Battery Charger (External Link)
- Battery Casing2 (Adobe PDF)
- DC-DC Converter (Adobe PDF)
- Software Developer/Programmer's Guide (MS Word)
Tech Paper
- Tech Paper Outline (MS Word)
- Tech Paper (MS Word)
- Appendices (MS Word)
Poster
- Poster 5-9 (Adobe PDF)
User Manual
- User Manual w/Table of Contents (MS Word)

Design Review Packets

Two times per quarter we hold a design review to show the progress we have made on the project. Below are the packets of documentation associated with each review: