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Automatic Balance Control Device

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Electrical and Computer Engineering
Student Project

The Automatic Balance Control Device (ABCD) project is designed to help children learn how to ride a bicycle.

The product relies on a congruent network of sensors and controllers integrated into a module that regulates the position of a pair of training wheels mounted to the rear of a child’s bicycle. The rider will attempt training as normal and the ABCD will assist in supporting the rider’s balance.

The module sends signals, based on the information received from the sensor(s), to trigger a device that will either extend or retract the bicycle training wheels depending on the attitude of the bicycle. The ABCD helps prevent toppling of the bicycle, helping to avoid injuries while making it more convenient to learn to cycle. The ABCD will introduce more youth to cycling in a safe, convenient, and confidence-building way.

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Use Your Cell Phone as a Document Camera in Zoom

  • What you will need to have and do
  • Download the mobile Zoom app (either App Store or Google Play)
  • Have your phone plugged in
  • Set up video stand phone holder

From Computer

Log in and start your Zoom session with participants

From Phone

  • Start the Zoom session on your phone app (suggest setting your phone to “Do not disturb” since your phone screen will be seen in Zoom)
  • Type in the Meeting ID and Join
  • Do not use phone audio option to avoid feedback
  • Select “share content” and “screen” to share your cell phone’s screen in your Zoom session
  • Select “start broadcast” from Zoom app. The home screen of your cell phone is now being shared with your participants.

To use your cell phone as a makeshift document camera

  • Open (swipe to switch apps) and select the camera app on your phone
  • Start in photo mode and aim the camera at whatever materials you would like to share
  • This is where you will have to position what you want to share to get the best view – but you will see ‘how you are doing’ in the main Zoom session.