UIUC ECE 445 Project Idea Corey Wilner Cypress

UIUC ECE 445 Project Idea Corey Wilner – Cypress FAE January 22, 2019

Improved Automatic Toothpaste Dispenser § Cypress is looking to show a practical example using multiple facets of our PSo. C − Motor Control Dispense measuring − Capacitive sensing Battery Power management − Small display control BLE communication § Students will get introduced to a highly integrated embedded microcontroller − Develop with the PSOC 4 -BLE on a module − Develop firmware in the PSOC Creator design environment − Develop an application on i. OS/Android to collect metrics from the product § Students will be able to create something that could be marketable § Cypress expects to take the student report and create an application note from it 2

Requirements § Look at the few units available on Amazon and address their shortfalls − Messy dispensing mechanisms − Unable to use different size tubes − No way to change the amount to be dispensed − No way to measure how much has been dispensed − No indication of Battery level / not battery operated − No communication to an app to collect metrics – how much dispensed, when dispensed − Etc. § Build a hardware mockup (or full product) of the improved dispenser § Design an app for the phone to collect relevant data 3

Cypress Provided Demo/Evaluation Kits § CYBLE-214015 -EVAL / CY 8 CKIT-042 -BLE − Nice for development / testing solution − Supported by PSo. C Creator development environment § CYBLE-214015 PSo. C 4 BLE based module − Solder directly to your board design § Mini. Prog 3 for programming and debugging § PSo. C Creator SDK − Free software providing graphical device configuration − Write in C, compile, link, and program 4

Cypress Contacts for more information/questions answered § Corey Wilner, Cypress FAE − Corey. Wilner@cypress. com − 847 -477 -9616 § Patrick Kane, Dir. Cypress University Alliance − Patrick. Kane@cypress. com 5

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