1. Shawn Burrington & Caleb Herbst
Rochester Institute of Technology - ECTET
SENIOR CAPSTONE PROJECT
INTERACTIVE OFFICE SCHEDULER

2. TEAM AMIGOS
 Shawn Burrington - 5th year Computer
Engineering Technology Student – Class 2012
 Caleb Herbst - 5th year Computer Engineering
Technology Student – Class 2012

3. YOUTUBE VIDEO
 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gf2r6TL0iQQ

4. PRODUCT VISION

5. PRODUCT VISION CONTINUED
 Create an interactive office manager
 Provides a means for individuals to schedule
appointments without having to directly
contact the office owner
 Mounts to the outside of any office

6. PRODUCT OWNER
 Argos Semitech
 CEO – Dr. Antonio Mondragon

7. TARGET AUDIENCE
 Any office setting
 Particularly professors at universities

8. GENERAL DESCRIPTION
 Individuals can make appointments with
office owners through this Interactive Office
Scheduler made by Argos Semitech
 Will also display the current status of office
owner(available, away, out to lunch… etc.)
 Can be updated weekly

9. CONTRIBUTION AND DIFFERENTIATION
 Demo projects from Terasic was the starting
point
 Modified SOPC and Verilog entities
 All C-code manipulating the display and
handling touch-sense is custom using pre-
existing Terasic and Altera basic libraries

10. RETROSPECTIVE – ORIGINAL GOALS
 Create an office schedule and editor
application
 Equip with webcam to verify appointment
 Use an external monitor with the DE-2 and a
LCD touch screen.

11. ORIGINAL MS PROJECT

12. JIRA THROUGHOUT THE QUARTER

13. PLANNING SUMMARY
 Unfortunately a projects lifecycle never goes
as planned
 Ran into a few road blocks that required
change in our project plan
 With scheduling conflicts and the progress
we made each week the Microsoft Project
plan ended up becoming useless

14. PLANNING SUMMARY CONTINUED
 Followed an agile project management
methodology
 Bi-weekly sprints that produced a working
product at the end of each sprint
 This approach helped in overcoming
roadblocks and gave us flexibility when
working on tasks

15. ROADBLOCKS
 Unable to output a resolution high enough
that didn’t look pixelated using DE2 w/
monitor
 Decided to switch to the Terasic TPAD which
uses a DE-115 and came assembled with a
touch screen
 Stability Issues
 Verilog Implementation
 Time

16. WHAT WE LEARNED
 Overall the project was an enjoyable
experience for the both of us
 It was fun to manage ourselves and watch
the project grow each week
 Communication is important

17. TO FUTURE ESD’ERS
 Start early
 Keep the goals in mind
 Remember what your trying to achieve and
manage your time accordingly

18. IF WE HAD TO DO IT AGAIN…..
 Would have started with the TPAD off the bat
 Did a better job documenting the project as
we worked on it, instead of assembling
majority of the documentation at the end of
the quarter

19. FUTURE WORK
 Integrate the webcam
 Connect to a web server for automatic
updating
 Proximity sensing to save power
 SD-card implementation

20. SPECIAL THANKS
 Dr Antonio Mondragon
 All the faculty and staff that made our last 5
years memorable