This project designed and constructed an altitude alerter. The device reported deviations of 50, 100 and 150 feet above and below a set altitude. The design was implemented using a pressure sensor, which output a voltage to a PIC microprocessor and was translated into a deviation through software. The design was tested as a protoboard prototype and as a PC Board product. The design was found to work properly with a deviation accuracy of twenty feet.

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Creator

• Dougherty, Jason Michael.
• Gould, John William.

Publisher

• Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Identifier

• 01D287M

Advisor

• Orr, John A.

Year

• 2001

Date created

• 2001-01-01

Resource type

• Major Qualifying Project

Major

• Electrical Engineering

Rights statement

• In Copyright