DPAC

Below is a video showing our device in action:

Table at the competition

We presented our project at Northeastern University’s annual EE Capstone Competition on 4/8/2010. The presentation consisted of a 10 minute presentation to a panel of industry judges followed by a 10 minute hands on demo of the device. We were awarded third place for our design.

We also presented a poster of our design at Northeastern’s annual Communication and Digital Signal Processing graduate research workshop, along with four other undergraduate Capstone teams. We were awarded first place amongst Capstone projects at the event from a group of judges.

The Final Product

Eleven months after having the idea for a self-setting alarm clock with Google Calendar, our project is finally complete. We chose to rename it to DPAC, the Dynamically Programmable Alarm Clock. The enclosure came out great, and all the parts fit flawlessly. As a last minute addition we designed fiberglass speaker baffles to improve frequency response and minimize distortion of our audio. We tweaked and refined the user interface to provide just about every option imaginable, in organized and logical menus. We added some last minute smarts to the web UI to provide feedback to the user, telling them when the next alarm was scheduled for. Everything came together and we are very happy with the final result. Additional images below.