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 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.