Week Ten

Conclusion: Week ten concluded the schedule for our project. We presented our findings to a group of faculty and students. A series of multimedia were used which consisted of a PowerPoint presentation, a physical poster board, and a wireless demonstration of how A/V current worked. During the presentation we mainly discussed the data that we found and how it would have needed to have been applied were we to create a physical wireless HDMI. The conclusion of the report recapped exactly what was accomplished from week to week and how certain steps...

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Week Nine

During week nine the group successfully tested the transmitter/receiver pair. It was determined that the issue did not lie with the cable in use, but with the settings on the PS3 itself. The PS3 was still set to output via HDMI rather than via A/V during the original tests. This was simply a failure to adjust the settings on the PS3. Once the adjustment was made the device worked accurately and efficiently. During the meeting we decided to give the presentation by demonstrating how the A/V transmitter/receiver pair worked with the PS3. The demonstration...

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Week Eight

Friday, May 23, 2014 11:03 AM During the week prior to our meeting we realized we had the wrong cable. One of the ports on the cables that was sent with the wireless transmitter and receiver pair was not accommodated for video. Without testing the video component of the pair it was indeterminable if they worked. Once the right cable was found we completed testing the transmitter receiver to find that they do work. This specific testing involved a Play Station Three and television monitor to display the signals.  Another...

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Week Seven

Friday, May 16, 2014 11:03 AM In this weeks meeting, we discussed what the best options are for our final deliverable.  Professor Taskin and Scott talked about how it would be a good idea to use the wireless transmitter and receiver that we have to demonstrate transmitting a picture or video while describing the process behind it.  This will help us by illustrating our understanding of the research we have performed by putting it towards a physical device and it's processes.  This demonstration will go hand in hand with a poster...

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Week Six

Friday, May 9, 2014 10:34 AM After speaking with Scott on Friday, we learned that it would be extremely difficult and impractical to try to connect an Arduino as a substitute for a P.B.C. board to the transmitter and receiver we have, and so yet again we are unsure what our final deliverable should be.  However, Scott suggested we make a poster,  much like what Professor Taskin suggested a few weeks ago, of what elements we would...

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Week Five

Friday, May 2, 2014 11:09 AM This week was heavy into reading technical documents on converting an HDMI signal to readable data via PCB board.  Examples of block diagrams demonstrating just that were found on Texas Instruments' website, and are displayed below. Layout of TMDS Lines Routed on the Bottom Layer Layout of non-TMDS Lines  In addition, we looked at the necessary HDMI male plugs needed to actually add the HDMI...

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Week Four

Friday, April 25, 2014 11:10 AM This week we made a flowchart of the behavioral logic of the transmitter and receiver we purchased in week two so that we could better understand how a transceiver pair works to successfully go through with a task such as sending a video/audio signal over wireless. Receiver Behavioral Flowchart             Transmitter Behavioral Flowchart  In addition, we also...

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Week Three

Friday, April 19, 2014 11:07 AM Zigbee HDMI uses 2.4 GHz, as well as the transmitter and receiver we purchased from eBay as an example Zigbee-250kbps Bluetooth-2.1 Mbps Dr. Taskin showed us how to use Google and Wikipedia for technical research on bandwidth and data rates of HDMI as well as the potential transmitters and receivers we are considering using.  We couldn't find data rates for HDMI so Dr. Taskin suggested suggested the data rates for a similar technology—DVI. To help ingrain exactly how to do this kind of technical research...

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Week Two

Friday, April 19, 2014 11:09 AM This week we met with Dr. Taskin and discussed exactly how to go about accomplishing our goal for this project. After conducting research as a group is was discovered that a model of what we are trying to make already exists. There are a few videos on Youtube.com that have the developers as well as consumers discussing the product, its flaws, advantages and prices. The video  embedded below is a review describing a wireless HDMI component that was developed by IO Gear. One of the goals we have for this...

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Week One

Friday, April 12, 2014 11:04 AM This week our group went online and researched different A/V transceivers we could purchase to use the wireless technology for in our project.  After looking at several different websites, including Amazon, TigerDirect, and NewEgg, we finally found a transmitter and receiver set on eBay that we could purchase and take apart when it arrived to examine how it worked and determine if it would be helpful to take...

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