Engineering Projects In Community Service - BAND Team

Real design for Real people

Newly established, same spirit

Our Mission

Founded in Fall 2015, The BAND Team seeks to enhance technology used by the Purdue �All-American� Marching Band. Our current project is to design a new lighting control tool. The band will use these clients to control lights attached to the performers to enhance their performances. The design is to be prototyped under all the different constraints to test its functionality. Currently, the team is working on designing a DMX-512 compliant lighting instrument, as well as prototyping new casing options and lights assembling method.

Current Projects

LIGHTS Client

The Lights Client project centers on the design of a DMX-512 compliant lighting instrument. A DMX-512 compliant instrument meant that the technology can receive control signals through the DMX-512 messaging protocol which control the color and intensity of the attached light sources. Additionally, the design is to be prototyped to test its functionality.

LIGHTS Assembly

The objective of the Lights Assembly team is to design and build an effective and efficient system to assemble the lights, taking into consideration the users, the user�s time, and the user�s compatibility with the final product.

LIGHTS Casing

The Lights Casing objective is to design a new casing model for the DMX-512 compliant receiver, taking into consideration all the constraints such as weight, portability, durability and stability on the band members.

Project Partners

The BAND team will work closely with our biggest project partner, the Purdue Marching Band, specifically:

Purdue Band Members: Band members are the intended final direct user of the product, although currently it is used on the drum line only. Band member concerns involve ease of use of the box receiving signal, ease of attaching light strips on, and weight involved with the product. Because they have to move or stand for several hours, potentially, with the strips and box attached, weight is a very important concern on their part. The ideal product in their eyes would be as light as possible and as easy to reach and attach as possible. Key influences on band members include the band director and the operators.

Purdue Band Directors & Tech Office: The Purdue Marching Band director wants a product that works and is as cheap as possible to limit amount spent. A working prototype is most important to the director and the ideal product would work as intended and would meet the side constraint of not being very costly. Due to the fact that a functional system would ideally be used by every band member, even a slight difference in cost between units is multiplied greatly when the entire band is in question.

Team Members

Nathaniel Schadler

Member - LIGHTS Casing

Design Lead

Humza Nasir

Member - LIGHTS Client

Project Leader

Shaural Patel

Member - LIGHTS Client

Webmaster

Daniel Rice

Member - LIGHTS Debug

Steven Ogbonna

Member - LIGHTS Casing

Financial Officer

Dineel Selvakumar

Member - LIGHTS Client

Project Archivist

Peiyuan Shen

Member - LIGHTS Client

Melanie Stepanovic

Member - LIGHTS Casing

Project Archivist

Emily Endicott

Member - LIGHTS Client

Badri Baskaran

Member - LIGHTS Client

Design Lead

Dustin Andree

Member - LIGHTS Debug

Timothy Buss

Member - LIGHTS Debug

Advisors & TA's

Irith Pomeranz

Professor

Nusaybah Al-Mulaweh

Advisor

Continuing lecturer at EPICS

Shraddha Bodhe

Teaching Assistant

contact us

EPICS BAND Team
Armstrong Hall of Engineering
701 West Stadium Avenue, IN 47907-2045
765-496-1068 (phone)
765-494-0052 (fax)

epics-band@ecn.purdue.edu