Week 10 (7/22/2014) Week 10 Summer 2014
Last week's hackathon (7/19/2014) was a great occassion to get some work done. A fraction of the rcos group showed up . Many thanks to Jorel and Robert for awesome help and contribution. They went above and beyond to get this done. We even had an official photographer come by to shoot some photos!
Only two more weeks left for the end of the summer. Here is a re-re-revised list of talks today. Great to see so many smiley faces on http://rcos.rpi.edu/
1) Chenrui Cao, Kai Kang, Xi Xi, Juntao Zhuang - 2W http://rcos.rpi.edu/projects/
2) Charles Machalow - cDashboard - http://rcos.rpi.edu/projects/
3) Nicholas Pitt - OpenLab http://rcos.rpi.edu/projects/
4) Tracy Marholin - Music Theory RPG- http://rcos.rpi.edu/projects/
5) Sami Modak, Tong Liu - Anti-Distracted Driving, http://rcos.rpi.edu/projects/
7) Dan Bruce, Gabe Perez - NMS - http://rcos.rpi.edu/projects/
9) Michael Hosier - Open Cores- http://rcos.rpi.edu/projects/
10) Soraya Fouladi, Andrew Kaiser, Theo Browne - RPI CS Website -
11) Abby Lopaty - Water tag gun - http://rcos.rpi.edu/projects/
Chenrui, kai, Xi and juntao talked about their 2W ssytem (when and where on Androids). The data base lies with client (in SQLite). they showed a demo of the system and it is pretty functional. They plan to include abbreviations, maps and the data updated. They plan to release to the Android market before the beginning of Fall semester.
Charles gave his second talk about CDashboard. He worked on the comments that he recieved during his first talk. He fixed a racing condition bug, improved stopwatch, no clipping of photos/slide show. He showed a demo. It is written in C# and looks like a cool system,
Nicholas gave a second talk on OpenLab. He has fixed the crash problem. As per his blog post "We're very proud to announce version 1.0 of OpenLab. This release includes an extensive plugin framework, loading config files, editing config files on-the-fly, and saving them back to xml. Coming up next is calibration and logging plugin support." - Open Lab version 1.0 is out - Hope others will start using it. Jorel had a nice suggestion suggesion about the paarameters setup for serial interfaces,
Tracy gave her second talk about music theory RPG. She is getting the ngame mechanics working. She is using PyGame (which she found sometimes difficult to use) - She may shift to Unity in future. As of the moment she is going to have a version of the game (playing against an enemy) for notes,, chords and rhythms etc,
Sami and Tong talked about AntiDistracted Driving. The idea is to prvent texting while driving. They find when they are driving by using accelermeter sensor. If the velocity exceeds certain value, they will lock the texting capability. Tong was concentrating in calculating positions and velocities (of doing a double and single integeral of accelerometer data- The integration introduces noice - Tong is trying to reduce the error). Som suggestions cam about using a periodic GPS data to correct the errors. Sami is working on locking the key oard if the velocity exceeds certain value. They are doing this for Androis and IPhone platform. There were a lot of interesting suggesions to this group. They hope to have a version before the end of the summer.
Dan and Game talked about NMS (news Management System). They are writing from scratch. This will be the poly website. They gave a demo of their system. they want to ring out this system by fall (or at least concurrently run with their old wordpress based system). Their system accounts of multiple positions and multiple authors. They want to build some features that are present in http://rpitv.org/
Michael is building a open source video controller using FPGA. The main objective of open cores is according to http://opencores.org/opencores,mission
"Our main objective is to design and publish core designs under a license for hardware modeled on the Lesser General Public License (LGPL) for software. We are committed to the ideal of freely available, freely usable and re-usable open source hardware."
Michael's main subobjective is o contribute o Opencores in this fashion- accorsding to his projects page "plan to contribute to OpenCore’s project categories of Video Controller and Communication Controller (http://opencores.org/projects) through the development of an LVDS LCD controller (similar to this project: http://g3nius.org/lcd-controller/) and a communication controller for communicating through Display Port with the ultimate goal of making the two compatible with each other and with other projects on OpenCores."
Michael hopes to have his system (software will be in VHDL) before the end of the summer session.
Soraya, Andrew and Theo are remaking RPI Cs website. They are doing it Ruby on Rails. Soraya had a mockup sketch of the opening page (There were good comments/feedback on that - change the color to red, white and black). Andrew and Theo are working on hte backend. They solicited help from RCOS students to get the project done. This is a high profile project and has to be done before the beginning of Fall semester. Their talk slides can be found in https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B2UFEZRUC23dZzVNOUxYYVNxLWFFZ2hESFF4YldFazJzdHRZ/edit
Finally Abby talked about building Water Gun. She is doing fluid mechanics calculations, structural analysis to build water Gun. She is leaning on building a skeleton instead of a skin. Since she got the material late, she will be unable to complete the project before the end of summer. But she hopes to have the simulation done before the end of summer. She is planning to use 3 D printing and low cost materials.
The talks are interesting and questions were also interesting. I am getting discouraged by the apathy shown by some students. A few students do not update blogs, post code and not give talks. I feel awful and I am helpless!
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