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In any school, the classes are organized in periods and beginning of a period or break is alerted to the students and teachers by ringing the school bell. Conventionally, the school bell is rang by a peon or multi-tasking assistant. What if there would be a microcontroller based automatic school bell which rings itself according to a fed timetable. This project is the implementation of same functionality.
Fujitsu has announced the development of an AI-based technology that will retrieve similar disease cases from a computed tomography (CT) database of previously taken images. It has been developed with joint efforts of Fujitsu Laboratories and Fujitsu R&D Center Co. Ltd. It will work by retrieving similar cases of abnormal shadows expanding in a 3-dimensional manner.
Home Automation is the new trend among urban households. Home automation system allows controlling home appliances through a remote. The remote can be an IR remote, RF remote or even a mobile phone. An internet based home automation system could be most accessible setup because such a system can be controlled from anywhere and anytime.
Today we are living in a world where everything has become automatic while manual efforts have become minimal. Autonomous vehicle technology is one such concept which is currently being explored to its core. Recently, a Rail transit firm in China named CRRC has introduced a train that runs on the road instead of rails. 
Alcohol detectors are commonly required by the law enforcement. The police need to catch and check people who drive after taking alcohol. Driving after taking alcohol can result in serious accidents. People who drive after consuming alcohol not only risk their own life but also of others. That is why police need to remain alerted and verify any person who they found suspicious of driving after drinking. For the verification, they use an instrument called alcohol detector.
From the previous project, it has been already learnt to configure control parameters of a Bluetooth Module. In this project, it will be demonstrated that how two Bluetooth modules can be paired together and allowed to share data between them. For pairing of two Bluetooth modules, one of them needs to be configured to Master role and other needs to be configured to Slave role. 
Fire hazards are not uncommon. In order to avoid damage from fire accidents, smoke detectors are installed at high-security places. These smoke detectors detect smoke as the fire breakout and invoke an early alarm. This way, before the fire spreads to other parts of the building, people can be evacuated and countermeasures can be done immediately. In this project also a smoke detector has been designed.
It’s always fun to work on an electronic project especially when it lets you recycle old objects that are otherwise thrown into the trash. Afrotechmods is a website run by an electrical engineer nicknamed as Afroman who publishes a bunch of interesting experiments with electronics through videos. His areas of interest include power electronics, robotics, and mixed signal design. 
