ECE431 labs

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• lab1: Learning Octave, what's a signal; what's noise (signal avgeraging).

  The schedule is as follows:

  PRA 01  1   Tue     15:00   18:00   BA3114      Sep 20
  PRA 02  1   Mon     15:00   18:00   BA3114      Sep 26
  PRA 03  1   Fri     15:00   18:00   BA3114      Sep 23
  PRA 04  1   Fri     15:00   18:00   BA3114      Sep 30

  Labs can be completed in groups of no more than two students. The lab mark is based on a lab report. Each group may submit a single report. The hard copy of the lab report must be handed in for grading by Friday, Oct 7, for all, regardless of official lab section.

• Lab 2: The Discrete Fourier Transform & Lowpass Filters

  The schedule is as follows:

  PRA 01  1   Tue    15:00   18:00   BA3114      Oct 18
  PRA 02  1   Mon    15:00   18:00   BA3114      Oct 24
  PRA 03  1   Fri    15:00   18:00   BA3114      Oct 21
  PRA 04  1   Fri    15:00   18:00   BA3114      Oct 14
  

  Labs can be completed in groups of no more than two students. The lab mark is based on a lab report. Each group may submit a single report. The hard copy of the lab report must be handed in for grading by Thursday, Nov 3, for all, regardless of official lab section.

• Lab 3: The Fast Fourier Transform and a Wearable Personal Safety Device with a Radar Vision system for detecting crime before it happens

  The schedule is as follows:

  PRA 01  1   Tue    15:00   18:00   BA3114      Nov 1
  PRA 02  1   Mon    15:00   18:00   BA3114      Nov 7
  PRA 03  1   Fri    15:00   18:00   BA3114      Nov 4
  PRA 04  1   Fri    15:00   18:00   BA3114      Nov 11 
  

  Labs can be completed in groups of no more than two students. The lab mark is based on a lab report. Each group may submit a single report. The hard copy of the lab report must be handed in for grading by Friday, Nov 18, for all, regardless of official lab section.

• Lab 4: Processing Digital Signals from an Infrared Sensor Operated Faucet
  Matlab Code Octave Code Files

  The schedule is as follows:

  PRA 01  1   Tue    15:00   18:00   BA3114      Nov 15
  PRA 02  1   Mon    15:00   18:00   BA3114      Nov 21 
  PRA 03  1   Fri    15:00   18:00   BA3114      Nov 18
  PRA 04  1   Fri    15:00   18:00   BA3114      Nov 25
  

  Labs can be completed in groups of no more than two students. The lab mark is based on a lab report. Each group may submit a single report. The hard copy of the lab report must be handed in for grading by Friday, Dec 2, for all, regardless of official lab section.

Octave and Matlab should be on all the ECF computers. If you're having trouble with imread.m (e.g. if you're having trouble with popen), here's a version modified to make a system call and use temp file temp.pnm. Octave or Matlab may be used for the labs

LIFE LIBERTY & the PURSUIT of SCIENCE: The nice thing about open science, such as Octave, is that you can easily "stand on the shoulders of giants" and extend or modify its functionality. If your install of Octave is not done right, you may have trouble with imread, etc., in which case you can easily write your own. Also, to save images, it's easy to write a short script; here's a quick example written in a few minutes after class.