Saturday, July 28, 2012

Week 10 (7/27/2012) Summer 2012

Week 10 (7/27/2012) Summer 2012

Summer Semester is slowly winding down. In two weeks the summer semester will be over. Projects are coming along well.

This week we had three talks.


1. Stephen Silber rpimobile http://rcos.rpi.edu/projects/rpi-mobile/
 
 2. Thomas King SMS Vending Machine http://rcos.rpi.edu/projects/sms-sending-vending-machine/

 
Stephen had made an excellent progress. He is well on to releasing his app before the end of the summer. He has been getting feedback from various sources including here

Thomas's first prototype has been installed in Ghana and the prototype has been working flawlessly (Thomas got a text message when some one purchased!). Since then Thomas has made substantial improvements in power consumption (10 fold decrease from 56 mA to 5.6mA by changing into a sleep mode from a busy wait loop). Thomas is waiting to hear more feedback when the team returns from Ghana.

Jorel and Tim have made an excellent progress What is more impressive is that they have also posted their talk slides! Please see them here. Jorel and Tim are also planning to start a company - please wait to hear further details. I am looking forward to getting some experience with their products!

Again I had a great time listening to a set of  great set of talks and a great set of questions 

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