This is the exact document that I submitted for as a requirement to get my Bachelor's Degree. Since my major was hardware and software, I built an embedded system and wrote some code to demonstrate its operating parts. This document includes diagrams done in Visio. I honestly don't know if you will have problems seeing the diagrams and other inserted stuff in the Word document. I also made a PDF from my original Word document, but the generated fonts that are hard to read.
Though I did not accomplish my ultimate plan; I ended-up with learning many things that I was not taught in school. This was my only real research project that I ever had in school, but I later did practical research at work for information technology. Papers that I wrote in school simply involved picking a topic, going to a library to grab several books and/or periodicals, and write a paper about what you read. When you are trying to make something work, you actually have to fully understand what you are doing, and thus have to make much greater care in finding real useful information. I have one observation about technology research that I like to tell everyone. Most research information for information technology that is written so non-academically sophisticated people can read them (practitioners), while research information for computer science and engineering is usually written in academically fancy language, so you have to be a real academic computer researcher to read them. This definitely hindered my senior project. I honestly believe that I learned much more from each of my community collage vocation-centric classes than I did from my university’s academically-centric classes. I ended-up learning even more at work than I did in school. Academic school is basically a waste of time unless you are one of a few hard-core book nerds. Many nerds are not book nerds, but instead are techies or sci-fi fans.