Group 4 (2007)

Student Members:
Richard Frade
Gregory Franco
Timothy Jean
Christopher Landry
David Terk

Faculty Advisor:
Dr. Karen Payton

Project Title:
Wireless MP3 Link Proof-of-Concept

Project Description:
MP3 players are extremely popular portable audio devices. Those who own one want to listen to their personal playlists at all times, especially while driving their own vehicle. The problem with this is, not all car stereos have auxiliary inputs for MP3 players. Many companies have developed a solution to this problem by utilizing portable FM transmitters to transmit the audio signal to the vehicle's antenna. The downfall of all such designs is strict laws governing all unlicensed FM transmitters. These stringent FCC regulations constrain transmitter output power to an extremely small magnitude, which makes all existing FM transmitter designs inefficient and susceptible to interference. Wireless-Techniques have asked us to design a system that will improve upon current MP3 player FM designs.