IEEE Open Design Competition is on Saturday!

The Open Design Competition will be held on this coming Saturday, April 11th, in the atrium on the Scott Bioengineering building. Judging begins at 9:00 AM and ends at noon. Hope to see you there!

If you are a participant, make sure your group's report is emailed to us at csuieee@gmail.com by Friday night (the 10th). Please arrive between 8:30 and 8:45 to be set up by 9.

Open Design Competition is coming right up!

Hello everyone, the 2015 Open Design Competition will be happening on the morning of April 11, 2015! That's coming right up, so we hope that your projects are nearing completion! If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to contact us at csuieee@gmail.com.

Hope to see you there!
Detailed information about time and location will be posted when it becomes available.

Winter Design Competition Results

Thank you everyone who came to this year's Winter Design Competition! We had a great turnout and fantastic projects! Scores were incredibly close, and here are the results:

1st Place: Automatic Zombie Killer 1.0 by Jesse Langston and Josh Olson

See a video of this in action: http://youtu.be/8SXHTdhITSw



2nd Place: Humanity Preservation Vehicle by Greg Myer and Sanjay Derbyshire

3rd Place: Knock Lock by Annemarie Kibbe, Corey McGee, Keith Evenson, and Tom Walker

Registration for Open Design Competition is open!

From now until March 6th, registration for the Open Design Competition is open! Please have ONE member from each team register with all the information contained in the registration survey.
https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/ZYDCKWB

Winter Design Showcase/Open Design Information Presentation TONIGHT! 7:00 PM

Come and support your peers tonight at 7:00 PM in Engineering 120 (Hammond Auditorium) in the Winter Design Competition, where we will be showcasing projects to help you out in a zombie apocalypse! There will be FREE PIZZA AND DRINKS for all attendees, and we look forward to seeing you there!

Winter Design Competition - Rules Updated

Happy break everyone!

The rules page for the Winter Design Competition has been updated. Click the Winter Design tab above to check it out!

As always, send us an email with any questions: csuieee@gmail.com

Workshop 4 Makeup LIVE Stream - TONIGHT at 8:00pm MST!

Come watch the makeup workshop for Workshop 4 TONIGHT at 8:00pm MST! Watch and chat LIVE on our Twitch channel: www.twitch.tv/csuieee

The video will be uploaded to our YouTube channel afterwards. Check it out!

Winter Design Competition!

Hello everyone! We all hope you are having a great finals week and wrapping up a successful semester! To celebrate the spirit of creativity, we are kicking off the annual IEEE Winter Design Competition RIGHT NOW!

Zombies are coming, and you're the only one that can stop them! Build something that will be useful in a zombie apocalypse and compete to win some really great prizes! The competition will be held right when we get back in February, so you can keep yourself occupied for all of Winter Break!

Full contest rules and more information can be found on the "Winter Design Competition" tab.

We look forward to seeing the amazing ideas you guys and gals come up with... but the zombies are coming faster than you think, so get building!

Workshop 5 TODAY!!

Workshop 5 is TODAY, Wednesday Dec. 3rd at 7:00pm in Scott 213! Come enjoy FREE PIZZA and the final workshop of this semester!

This workshop will quickly cover the remaining parts in the kit, a small project, and information about the Winter Design Competition. Specific parts needed include:

• Arduino and Computer
• 1 M Ohm Resistor
• Pencil (NOT a pen, we will use these to mark a notecard)

That's it! We will provide notecards. Mechanical pencils should be fine.

See you all tonight!

Workshop 4: Secret knock THIS WEDNESDAY

Hello everyone! We're getting toward the end of our workshops here, with the next one being this Wednesday! We will go over motors, servos, NPN transistors, and the piezo sensor in your kit, using all of these to make a door lock that opens with a secret knock!

Where: Scott 231
When: Wednesday, 11/19/2014, 7:00PM-9:00PM
What to bring: Your laptop and kit.

If you don't have a kit, as always we sell them for $35. But if you have your own set of supplies, we will be using the following:

(1) Arduino
(1) DC Motor
(1) Servo motor
(1) NPN Transistor - 2N3904
(1) 1 MOhm Resistor
(1) Piezo element
(1) 1N4001 Diode

FREE PIZZA will be provided! We hope to see you all there :)

Workshop 3 Information - THIS WEDNESDAY!

Workshop 3 is coming up! It will be held THIS WEDNESDAY (Oct. 29th) at 7:00pm in Scott 231 (same room as workshop 2).

To adequately participate in this workshop, you will need:

• Computer with the Arduino IDE installed
• Arduino Uno
• Breadboard
• 3x LEDs
• RGB LED
• 3x 330 Ohm Resistors
• 3x 470 Ohm Resistors
• 1x 10k Ohm Resistor
• TMP36 Temperature Sensor IC
• Photocell (light dependent resistor)

Of course, these can all be found in your kits if you have one. This workshop will cover analog I/O and RGB LEDs!

As always, FREE PIZZA is provided. If you don't have a kit but want one, WE ARE STILL SELLING KITS! It is not too late!

Feel free to email us with questions: csuieee@gmail.com

Workshop 2 Make-up Video

The video for Workshop 2 is being exported and will be available for viewing shortly! I tried to over everything from the actual workshop, but as always, send us an email for any questions.

Check back on the Workshops tab for the link! Twitch streaming can be a nasty beast, but I am finally getting the hang of it. Thank you all for being patient as we learn along side you!

Workshop #2 THIS WEDNESDAY

Workshop 2 is coming up THIS WEDNESDAY, October 22nd!

The workshop will be held at 7:00pm in Scott 231. As usual, FREE pizza is provided!

For this workshop, you will need your Arduino kit OR the following list of items:

• Computer
• Arduino
• 3 LEDs (preferably red, yellow, and green)
• 5 resistors, 3x 330 ohm and 2x 10k ohm
• 2 Pushbuttons
• Jumpers/wires (we will have some extra as well)
• Breadboard (or mini breadboard)

This workshop will cover digital I/O as well as some basic electronics principles. Join us in Scott 231 or watch LIVE on our twitch channel: www.twitch.tv/csuieee

If you missed the first workshop, YOU CAN STILL COME! These are meant to be well-rounded workshops for people of all skill levels.

If you don't have a kit or some of the hardware, come and buddy up with a partner!

Arduino Workshop 1!

Thank you to everyone who came to the first Arduno workshop tonight. Everyone was enthusiastic and eager to learn and that makes us excited for the future workshops and the competition!

The materials for the workshop are now posted on the Workshops page, under Arduino Workshop 1. Please don't hesitate to contact us with any questions you might have!

Workshop #1 TODAY!

We could not be more excited to kick off the Open Design Competition workshops! Just a few reminders about the workshop:

• Bring a laptop
• Bring $35 CASH or CHECK if you ARE purchasing a kit
• Bring an Arduino Uno and USB cable if you are NOT purchasing a kit
• Bring your friends!
• FREE PIZZA!

The workshop will be held TODAY (Wednesday) in Scott 101 at 7:00pm. It's the big lecture hall on the right as soon as you walk in through the main entrance.

Oh yeah, the CSU IEEE chapter has an email account! We encourage you to send any and all questions pertaining to the competitions or IEEE in general to this account: csuieee@gmail.com

Some more updates we have been cooking up: we now have both a Twitch and YouTube account! This will allow us to stream the workshops LIVE for anyone to watch anywhere! Afterwards, the recording will be posted on YouTube for reference anytime! Rest assured we most certainly WILL be monitoring the chat during the workshop if anyone watching off-site has questions or comments. Of course, mind the 30ish second delay.

The link to our Twitch channel is: www.twitch.tv/csuieee

The link to our YouTube channel is: www.youtube.com/user/csuieeedesign

First Open Design Competition workshop!

The first workshop of the Fall is upon us! Here are the details: 

When: Wednesday, October 15, from 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM

Where: Scott Bioengineering, Room 101

This first workshop will be an introduction to Arduino and to some basic electronics concepts. It is considered a beginner level workshop. 

If you are interested in learning about electronics and Arduino, please attend! Please also encourage anyone who might have such interests to come as well - the more the merrier, of course, and we would love to teach everyone we can! 

Additionally, if you purchased a kit, and have not yet picked it up, please bring $35 (cash or check) to the workshop so we can get you squared away. 

We hope to see you all soon! 

ODC Informational PowerPoint

The PowerPoint presentation with the Open Design Competition information can be found here.

Also, we encourage you to fill out the registration survey. The link is posted below and also on the whiteboard by the BC Infill.

Open Design Competition Preliminary Registration link

If you are at all interested in participating in the Open Design Competition this year, please fill out this quick survey:

https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/QF7C5YL

Your phone number is optional. The survey will help us gain interest and plan the rest of the fall to your best interests!

Thank you for your time.

2015 Open Design Competition Information Nights

We are happy to announce the 2015 Open Design Competition is kicking off next week with two information nights! We will be talking about rules, kits, dates, workshops, and more!

The information nights are Monday, Sept. 22 and Tues. Sept. 23 at 7:00 PM in room E103 of the Engineering building.

Come for the free pizza, stay for the competition!

2014 ODC Pictures