Week 9 (10/14/3024 and 10/17/2-14) Fall Semester

This week is a compressed week - to do 5 days work in 4 days time.  Since Tuesday is a Monday at RPI it added some conflicts.  On top of it, we had an open house on Saturday The above photograph shows RCOS students helping out with Open House. We had meeting both on Tuesday and on Thursday. On Tuesday we had a talk

1) Kirk Smith, Brendan Cazier, Altan Gulen, Lloyd Jones - BallotBoxhttp://rcos.rpi.edu/projects/ballotbox/ (mentor Theo Browne)

This group have progressed quite well. They have created a public voting and showed a demo running from a local server They are planning to move that a public webserver They are also working on private voting. They are using ruby on Rails. They are planning to implement a mobil version for Android. 

Their slides are here https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1JuQNVFlToGvw6k_X_OcjeVFjbUW8pjV_qzt7eq8_QMo/edit?usp=sharing

On Friday we had two talks:

1) Kienan Knight-Boehm, Dylan Lingenau, Spencer Weiner, Barry Hu
- SelfSecured http://rcos.rpi.edu/projects/selfsecured/ (mentor Theo Browne)

2) Derek Meer and Michael Hosier - OpenWSN
http://rcos.rpi.edu/projects/openwsn/ (mentor Eric Oswald)

SelfSecured is amobile application for emergency situations.  They mentioned of te problem of git with android development framework. They divide their projec into four parts (panic button, timer, emergency services and docial) so taht all of them will be able to have a full understanding of the entire system. Their slides can be found here http://slides.com/kienankb/selfsecuredupdate1#/ They showed a demo of their system

OpenWSN is a open wireless sensor network project from Berkeley. Derek and Michael are contributing to the project.
They already have one bug and they are learning the big system  They are also implementing a JSON interface to OpenVisualizer.Their final goal is to create a cheap hardware which implements the standard protocol stack. Their talk slide is found here http://slides.com/derekmeer/openwsn1#/

There were excellent questions and suggestions. Usually they make understand the talks much better.
What a great educational opportunity for me and other students.