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1998 BUPS Winter Concert

Alper — Sat, 16 Feb 2008 18:55:07 +0000

This is one for the oldies, the 1998 BUPS Winter Concert

On another note, rest in peace Akın Öncül, he may be seen playing the sax on the above video as well as the guitar on following videos which are being prepared.

New School!

Alper — Tue, 18 Dec 2007 13:56:56 +0000

Its nearly the end of the first term actually, but since I forgot there was a school section here it is, my new school:

Bilkent University MBA

I’m doing it part time, 3 years, no rush

Done ?

Alper — Wed, 25 Oct 2006 09:56:41 +0000

I’ll need to find something to do now!

The end of Smart TV Project

Alper — Wed, 19 Apr 2006 07:11:39 +0000

As we are approaching the end of the year, the ongoing SmartTV Project is also coming to an end. Here are some videos of the operation of the final stand. In short, it is a motorized TV stand that can aim a TV at its audience!

This is the stand tracking one person:

Here it is tracking multiple people and calculating the best aim for the TV:

This is a view from the TV’s perspective:

Smart TV Project is among the finalists in PEO!

Alper — Sun, 02 Apr 2006 18:15:26 +0000

The SmartTV Project (also hosted on sinavs.com) which is going to come to a completion very soon was chosen as a finalist for the Professional Engineers of Ontario Student Papers Competition!

SmartTV Project

Alper — Mon, 19 Dec 2005 07:12:00 +0000

For our final year project we are developing a turntable to be situated underneath a TV. This turntable will be attached to a stepper motor that is controlled by a central processor. The processor will be connected to a sensor or a webcam that can sense where a person is located inside a room. Our aim is to make the TV point towards a person as he moves around in a room or achieve the best possible viewing angle for a group of people. Also, the system will increase and decrease the volume of the TV according to how far people are from the TV set.

I never realized how MSPaint and stick figures can be so much fun to draw!

Currently we are thinking that the sensor can be infrared. Humans being a natural heat source can be picked up by infrared sensors. However we will need a sensor precise enough to monitor slight changes as a person starts moving towards and away from the TV.

The CPU is also not decided yet, we are thinking of a Motorola 68HC12 as we are familiar with it. Although if a webcam and image recognition is prefered instead of the infrared then a more powerful CPU will be needed.