Weekly Reports

Week 2: Sept 9-12

This week so far our group has decided on our preferred projects for the course as well as considered some of optics involved. Presently our group's first choice of project is the traffic monitoring system, with the free-space optical communication device as a second choice. We have also decided to use, at least as a testbed, a visible red laser pointer as a source and basic phototransistors as receivers. Examining the parts catalogs has shown that these components will be feasible in terms of cost and we intend to put in an order in lab next week unless there in a change in plans.