Week 16 (5/12/2015) Tuesday Spring Semester

That is it. We had our last meeting on Tuesday - packed with talks - but not with audience :(

The following people/groups gave talks.

1) Ryan Trinkle '09 - Reflex: Practical Functional Reactive Programming

2) Leopold Joy, Lucien CD - FoosRPI-
http://rcos.rpi.edu/projects/foosrpi/ (mentor Seve)

3) Sebastian Sarbora, Jazmine Olinger, Brittany Walker, Elizabeth
Dinella -  Neptune - http://rcos.rpi.edu/projects/neptune/ (mentor
Jazmine)

4) Alan Schimmel, Michael Hosier -  Mini BMS
http://rcos.rpi.edu/projects/mini-high-power-battery-management-system/
(menotr Eric)

5) Chris Brenon,James Grippo,Kirk Smith,Richie Young - Ballotbox -
http://rcos.rpi.edu/projects/ballotbox/ (mentor Jim)

6) Joseph Monroe, Diego Cepeda, Vincent Cerati - Fitpet-
http://rcos.rpi.edu/projects/fitpet/ (mentor Jazmine)

7)  Connor Foody, Jon Patsenker - Studyr
-http://rcos.rpi.edu/projects/studyr/ (mentor Jim)

8)  - Yufan Lou, Xuan Liu, Nick Smith - YACS++CourseMap
http://rcos.rpi.edu/projects/coursemap-yacs-catalog/ (mentor Nick)

9) Ming Luo, Seve Ibarluzea, Zaran Lalvani, Forest Crossman and Matthew Vitting, Sia-UI  http://rcos.rpi.edu/projects/sia-ui/ (mentor Kiana)

Highlights: 
Ryan gave a very nice and easy to understand talk on Reactive Programming using Haskell (web programming , streaming application).  He talked about his library Reflex which makes  this possible,

Leopold and Lucien have completed their FoosBall hardware software interface and had a youtube video of their project. They had used arduino, raspbery Pi , twilio, python for their system.

Much has been accomplished in Neptune - including simulation, hardware and interface. It is still some ways to go - 

MiniBatteryManagement System have fabricated an alpha version. They are refining their design. This project is coming along well.

BallotBox has made a very good progress. They have most of the basic operations working.

FitPet is an IPhone app that monitors the fitness activities using an incentive of pet living well.

Studyr is a project aimed at providing videos lecture notes, problem, past exams among students taking similar courses. The project is yet to mature.

Coursemap is coming along - they show a display of different courses according to the level credits and other filters - Right now it is just a circular display

Sia_UI is coming along very well with Seve leading the group. They have done a sizable portion of the UI implemented. There is also a simulation working. All in all, this project has achieved its goal (assuming the original Sia developers agree).

It is a glorious way to end the semester.

Week 7 (9/30/2014) and (10/3/2014) Fall Semester

We are at the half way point of our fall semester.   So many things are happening at RPI. Rensselaer magazine had a story about RCOS in the Fall 0214 issue (see the online version here )Things have been progressing along well. We had two meetings. http://hack.rpi.edu/ has been open for registartion.

On Tuesday (9/30/2014) we had these presentations

1) Robert Rouhani - Protips
2)  Daniel Baek  - PEP8: Python Coding Style

3) Peter Ryder, Blake Lingenau, Mike Macelletti - Check Up
http://rcos.rpi.edu/projects/check-up/ (mentor Devon Bernard)

4) Rob, Vijay, Ylonka, Jacob, Josh, Chandrika - EMTags
http://rcos.rpi.edu/projects/emtags/ (mentor Eric Oswald)

5) Brian, John, Zachary, Aleksey -  Where R U?
http://rcos.rpi.edu/projects/where-r-u/ (mentor Jim Boulter)

6) Alex White, Joseph Eduardo - Command Chain
http://rcos.rpi.edu/projects/command-chain/ (mentor Eric Oswald)

7) Dimitar Dimitrov and David Kim - Peirce Logic http://rcos.rpi.edu/projects/peirce-logic/ (menotr Dimitar Dimitrov - self mentored?)

Lead mentor gave a nice presentation called ProTips - how to make RCOS expereience. His talk slides may be found here http://slides.com/robertrouhani/rcos-protips#/

Python coding style was presented -by Daniel. His talk slides may be found here http://www.slideshare.net/hydroArgentum/pep-8-python-coding-style

Checkup is a windows process monitor - improves what perfromance monitor task manager does - finer time intervals.
Their presentation is here https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1G_v-GhdKZpaGrXo2mMMVH6XU7r6-YqWNAImennmTO7Y/edit  - Very fine talk and work. As usual a number of interesting questions were posed and answers were very illuminating.

EMTags is a project to help emergency situations. Instead of paper, they want to have electronic tags. Their talk may be found here https://onedrive.live.com/redir?resid=A4143B7E9F94CF58!65125&authkey=!AM9-pD53v9BK_PA&ithint=file%2cpptx

Whereare U is a mobile application for ride organizer with GPS and Map integration. It is better than a facebook group (answer to a question) Their talk slides may be found here https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1rj39cVEMqbPKgDkt3YgT-SxPZYCRHCBzQpJsJIdszHI/edit#slide=id.p

Command Chain is a system to allow the requirements, deadlines and other notfications acceptable to a chain of commands. It is meant as a stand alone system,

Pierce Logic has progressed to a state whre it is close to release. Now they are working to port it to touch sensitive screens, Their talk slides may be found here (Oh! Oh!! Dimitar did not send in his lovely slides)

On Friday (10/3/2014) we had these presentations

1) Laurie Wu Robotics hand, Open Hand Model T42
http://rcos.rpi.edu/projects/open-hand-model-t42/  (mentor Devon
Bernard)  - No Blog posts?

2) Sebastian Sarbora, Jazmine Ollinger, Veronica, Dan, Charlotte -
Neptune http://rcos.rpi.edu/projects/neptune/ (mentor Joshua Makinen)
- last three names do not appear in Observatory

3) Theodore Tenedorio, Tommy Fang - Pokemon RPI
http://rcos.rpi.edu/projects/pokemon-rpi/ (mentor Jim Boulter)

Open Hand Project was a fantastic project and very well presented  This project is to build an open source hand (designed at HHarvard)There was veen a youtube video. Her talk slides may be found here https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B2UFEZRUC23dMUVrdHBYOFNsMjdka3BSbFlFdUJ0am9HLXJZ/view?usp=sharing 

Underwater Robotics is an open source effort to make a project and make it inexpensive. It also has a n added feature of wireless communication. Their talk slides may found here https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1TtipVGssuieGE7SN4Wmnz4KPIIUVUAZY_VudGJOsrO4/edit?usp=sharing 

Pokemon RPI is an ongoing project the pokeman with RPI as map. They are progressing along well with an expected release at the end of Spring Semester. Their talk slides may be found here https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B2UFEZRUC23dNWVOdWQwQmVTYkZzZzVpTkNJWThwYXllOThV/view?usp=sharing

All the talks were fantastic and I learned a lot by attending these talks.