ATMEGA 32 BASED MUSICAL

FOUNTAIN
INTRODUCTION-:
A musical fountain is a type of animated fountain for
entertainment purposes that creates an aesthetic design
and sometimes a three dimension image. This is done by
using the effects of timed sound wave and timed light or
laser against water particles. The water refracts and
reflects the light, and in doing so, a three-dimensional
image cam be created.
Some are large scale, and use hundreds of water jets and
laser emitters, the cost of which runs up into the millions
of dollars, although smaller household forms exist where
the budget ranges to around a thousand dollars.
A BRIEF INTRODUCTION TO
ATMEGA32
MICROCONTROLLER-: 
When we have to learn about a new computer we have
to familiarize about the machine capability we are using,
and we can do it by studying the internal hardware
design (devices architecture), and also to know about the
size, number and the size of the registers.
         A microcontroller is a single chip that contains the
processor (the CPU), non-volatile memory for the
program (ROM or flash), volatile memory for input and
output (RAM), a clock and an I/O control unit. Also called
a "computer on a chip," billions of microcontroller units
(MCUs) are embedded each year in a myriad of products
from toys to appliances to automobiles. For example, a
single vehicle can use 70 or more microcontrollers. The
following picture describes a general block diagram of
microcontroller.
ATMEGA32: The ATMEGA32 is a low-power, high-
performance advance RISC 8-bit microcontroller with 32K
bytes of in-system programmable Flash memory. The on-
chip Flash allows the program memory to be
reprogrammed in-system or by a conventional
nonvolatile memory programmer. By combining a
versatile 8-bit CPU with in-system programmable Flash
on a monolithic chip, the Atmel ATMEGA32 is a powerful
microcontroller, which provides a highly flexible and
cost-effective solution to many, embedded control
applications. The ATMEGA32 provides the following
standard features: 32K bytes of Flash, 1024 byte of
EEPROM & 2KB INTERNAL S RAM ,32 I/O lines, Watchdog
timer, two data pointers, two 16-bit timer/counters, a
six-vector two-level interrupt architecture, a full duplex
serial port, on-chip oscillator,8-channel 10 bit ADC and
clock circuitry. In addition, the ATMEGA32 is designed
with static logic for operation down to zero frequency
and supports two software selectable power saving
modes. The Idle Mode stops the CPU while allowing the
RAM, timer/counters, serial port, and interrupt system to
continue functioning. The Power-down mode saves the
RAM con-tents but freezes the oscillator, disabling all
other chip functions until the next interrupt

THEORY -:
we have split the sound source into eight frequency
ranges. The reasons for eight fountain heads are: 1-
aesthetically appealing and 2- there are 8 pins for a
standard I/O port on the Atmel Microcontroller. Since
the purpose of this final project is to create a water
fountain, we needed a pressurized water source.
Originally, we had thought about using fish pumps; but
then realized they did not have enough pressure.   The
pressure coming from the sink is between 30 and 40 psi,
and therefore we decided to attach our input source to
the sink.
There are a few important functions we needed to
implement in our project.   At the start of our project, the
sound source was sampled using the A/D converter on
the Atmel microcontroller.   From the A/D converter, the
samples undergo a Walsh transform (implemented in
software) to split the samples into various frequency
ranges. From there the individual ranges activate the
different output controls, which correspond to the
opening and closing of the solenoid valves.   The output
controls can also activate the specific LEDs that
correspond to the activated valve.   In this manner, a user
can both see the valves turn on and the corresponding
LEDs light up.   We also have pushbuttons to control the
mode (single or multi) and to change the threshold.
References-:
[1] Matjaz Vidmar: "A Wideband, Varactor-tuned
Microstrip VCO", pages 80-86/6-99, Microwave Journal.

[2] Matjaz Vidmar: "Spectrum analyser 0...1750MHz",

pages 2-30/1-99, VHF-Communications.

[3] Matjaz Vidmar: "Spektrum-Analyzer von 0 bis

1750MHz, Teil 1: Aufbau der Baugruppen", pages 18-
30/4-99, "Spektrum-Analyzer von 0 bis 1750MHz, Teil 2:
Anzeigebaugruppen und Abgleich", pages 18-29/1-00,
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