Our Arduino Project: The Omniclock

So yesterday was demo day for the arduino projects when we displayed the products of our hard work over the last couple of months. My team, Team Bunny in the 3pm ENG 198 class, created a device which counts down with a physical display dial a time which the user inputs up to 3 minutes. After the countdown is complete, the device plays the Imperial March (Darth Vader's Theme Song) using two piezos and has 3 red LEDs which flash along with the song. As four of our five group members are part of the art and engineering design team it was only appropriate that our product also look appealing, and the slick black casing that Matt made for the components does the job nicely. The function of our project was definitely simpler than most of the other groups in our class, projects which included a hovercraft, a morse code translator, and moving vehicles which moved sensitive to light or temperature. However, I think we did the best job creating an actual product, which, if made better and mass produced, could end up as a alarm clock that plays a specified song as the alarm. From this project we not only learned about how many electronics work, but more importantly how to work as a team and use everyone's individual talents and knowledge for the good of the whole. It was a fun project and a wonderful ending to a good introduction to Engineering and iFoundry at the University of Illinois.

The inside wiring of the Omniclock is pictured below: