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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