BIBLIOGRAPHIC CITATIONS

George Troulis

First and foremost, we have to thank George for the incredible amount of help he's provided us through this project. He's helped us choose a microcontroller and keep our expectations and components reasonable, as well as helped us go through our frequency detection code to understand exactly what goes on and where. This project would never have gotten to the same position it has so quickly without his help. 

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Arduino.cc

Arduino.cc was a big help to us in determining what microcontrollers have the capability to do what we want, as well as to see if other people have tackled this project and how their creations performed. This source was part of what gave us the final decision to go with an Arduino for our microcontroller.

Here's a link to a website we used, created by user MadhuGovindarajan.

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Instructables.com

Instructables was a huge help to us in designing an amplification and offset circuit as well as providing a template code (built for an Arduino UNO) for determining frequency, which would allow our motor to automatically turn. Though we did some minor modifications here and there, Instructables served as a good baseline for our project. 

Here are two links we used to help create an amplification + offset circuit as well as template code to determine frequency. Both were created by user amandaghassael. 

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Stanford.edu

Stanford.edu was similar to Arduino.cc in that we used a documented project from them, also utilizing an arduino to automatically tune a guitar using the 1/4" output jack. Though we found their design to be too complex for our uses, it was helpful nonetheless to view how others were able to amplify a signal and eliminate unwanted high and low frequencies. 

Here's the link to the exact document we used. The project and documentation were created by Justin Duong, Minmin Hu and Wendy Li.

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Software, Photos, and Gifs

Portions of this website would not be possible without contributions from different software and gif's from the internet. On the software side, iMovie, Audacity, and Friture were all used to help create the video demo and the living workshop. Also helpful were oPhysics, HyperPhysics, and wtamu.edu for providing simple and helpful gifs and photos that were used to streamline the explanation process in our living workshop. 

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ECE 196 TA's and UCSD Envision staff

Last but certainly not least, we want to give thanks to the whole TA team from ECE 196 as well as the staff from Envision (with a special thank you to director Colin for providing materials, general guidance, and quick repairs to the laser cutter). This project would not have been possible without their help and their constant feedback and reminders of deadlines helped keep us on track to complete the auto-tuner in time.