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UIUC ECE445 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 PSoC Motor Control Dispense measuring Capacitive sensing Battery Power management
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UIUC ECE445 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 PSoC • 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 PSOC4-BLE on a module • Develop firmware in the PSOC Creator design environment • Develop an application on iOS/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
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
Cypress Provided Demo/Evaluation Kits • CYBLE-214015-EVAL / CY8CKIT-042-BLE • Nice for development / testing solution • Supported by PSoC Creator development environment • CYBLE-214015 PSoC 4 BLE based module • Solder directly to your board design • MiniProg3 for programming and debugging • PSoC Creator SDK • Free software providing graphical device configuration • Write in C, compile, link, and program
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