A MINOR PROJECT REPORT

ON
AN ARDUINO BASED PROPELLER DISPLAY
Submitted by
RAJ MOHAN PRASAD
RAHUL PRAJAPAT
PURUSHARTH SHARMA
UNDER THE GUIDANCE OF
Prof. POOJA SONI

In partial fulfillment for the award

Of
BACHELOR OF TECHNOLOGY IN
ELECTRONICS AND COMMUNICATION ENGINEERING
FROM
RAJASTHAN TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY
DEPARTMENT OF

ELECTRONICS AND COMMUNICATION ENGINEERING

JODHPUR INSTITUTE OF ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY MOGRA,

N. H. 62, PALI ROAD, JODHPUR-342802
DECEMBER -2017
SESSION 2017-18

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 JODHPUR INSTITUTE OF ENGINEERING & TECHNOLOGY
DEPARTMENT OF ELECTRONICS & COMMUNICATION
ENGINEERING
CERTIFICATE
This is to certify that the following students Rahul Prajapat, Raj Mohan Prasad, Purusharth Sharma
have successfully completed the project Titled "Arduino Based Propeller Display ” towards the
partial fulfillment of Bachelor of Technology in Electronics and Communications Engineering of the
Rajasthan Technical University during academic year 2017– 2018.

Prof. K.K Arora Pooja Soni

(Asst. Prof.)
Project Associate Guide

INTERNAL EXAMINER EXTERNAL EXAMINER

(Signature with Date) (Signature with Date)

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 ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

We would like to extend our heartfelt thanks and deep sense of gratitude to all those who helped us in
this project .First and foremost, we are highly grateful to Prof. K.K Arora, for approving us this
opportunity to carry out this project.
The divine support given by our guide Prof. Pooja Soni & Ajay Kumar Kushwaha Department of
Electronics and Communication Engineering, J.I.E.T, Jodhpur, without them the work would not have
been possible.

NAME
PURUSHARTH SHARMA
14EJIEC073
RAJ MOHAN PRASAD
14EJIEC078
RAHUL PRAJAPAT
14EJIEC076

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 TABLE OF CONTENTS

CHAPTER PAGE NO.

Title Page i
Certificate ii
Acknowledgement iii
List of Figures vi
List of Table vii
Abstract vii
Market Survey viii

1. INTRODUCTION
1.1 Project Overview 1
1.2 Hardware Specification 1
1.3 Software Specification 2

2. STUDY AND ANALYSIS

2.1 Need of Study 2
2.2 Objective of Study 2
2.3 Existing System 3
2.4 Proposed System 3

3. DESIGN
3.1 Database Design 4
3.2 Methodology 11
3.2.1 Principle Working 11
3.2.2 Actual Operation 11
3. 3 Block diagram 12

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3.4 Circuit diagram and explanation 14
4. REALIZATION AND COSTING DETAIL 23
5. APPLICATIONS 24
6. FUTURE SCOPE 24
7.CONCLUSION 25
8.DATASHEET 25
9.REFERENCES / BIBLIOGRAPHY 26

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 TABLE OF FIGURE

FIGURE NO. FIGURE NAME PAGE NO.

Chapter -1

Figure 1.1 Mechanical assembly 1

Chapter -3

Figure 3.1 POV effect demonstrations 3

Figure 3.2 PCB Layout 4

Figure 3.3 Block Diagram 12

Figure 3.4 Circuit Diagram 14

Figure 3.5 Rotor assembly 23

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 LIST OF TABLE

TABLE NO. TABLE NAME PAGE NO.

Table1.1 Market Survey ix

Chapter -4

Realization and Costing Detail

Table 4.1 23

Chapter -8

Table 8.1 Arduino Uno Datasheet 25

Table 8.2.1 H21A1 Sensor Datasheet 25

Table 8.2.2 H21A1 Sensor Datasheet 26

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 ABSTRACT

Conventional methods of displaying images are by using LCD display or LED board.
Propeller display is a special type of circular display that project an image as if the
images are floating in the air. This project was started with a simple principle which is
frequently happening in our day today life, which is Persistence of Vision (POV).
Whenever the light from an image strikes on the retina, the eye retains the impression
of that light for a particular fraction of seconds (1/16th) depending on the brightness of
the image even after the image has been removed from the human sight. Most of the
existing LED displays consumes large amount of energy due to more number of LEDs
used. In the present work virtual displays are used in order to reduce the number of
LEDs. The propeller is subjected to rotate above 1000rpm to obtain virtual display.

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 MARKET SURVEY

NAME OF PRODUCT AMAZON EBAY JAIN ELECTRONICS

PCB 85/- 80/- 60/-

ARDUINO UNO 400/- 350/- 350/-

RESISTOR 12/- 12/- 12/-

LED 10/- 10/- 10/-

12 V MOTOR 200/- 175/- 180/-

WIRE 10/- 10/- 10/-

Transistor(BC 337) 6/- 4/- 5/-

Battery

(3800mah LiPo 3.7 volts) 120/- 120/- 120/-

H21A1 35/- 30/- 32/-

Female Header Pin 20/- 20/- 20/-

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