Week 15 (5/8/2015) Spring Semester

We are racing to the finish line. Mentors are playing a great role this semester. The small grop meetings really make a difference and get the groups going. They also help with the technology stack  that the students need.

We had these ten presentations on Friday:

 1) Theo Browne, Greg Bartell - inSquare
http://rcos.rpi.edu/projects/insquare/ (mentor Theo Browne)
2)  Shinya Hirata, Amartya Chakraborty, Aaron Cheng, Sensen Chen
-rClubs -  http://rcos.rpi.edu/projects/rpi-tradebook/ (mentor Jorel
Lalicki)
3) Mike Dewey , Mitch Mellone - Bluedash -
http://rcos.rpi.edu/projects/blue-dash/ (mentor Eric Oswald)
4) David Wang, Tommy Fang, Aman Zargarpur, Austin Gulati - Pokemon RPI
 http://rcos.rpi.edu/projects/pokemon-rpi/ (mentor Samuel Yuan) - No
blog update
5)  Robert Rouhani, Shanye Jiang -SharpNav -
http://rcos.rpi.edu/projects/sharpnav/ (mentor Robert Rouhani)
6)  Derek Meer - OpenWSN - http://rcos.rpi.edu/projects/openwsn/
(mentor eric Oswald)
7) David Chen, David Ivey, Joseph Shvedsky - Share-It:
http://rcos.rpi.edu/projects/share-it/ (mentor Brian Kelley)
8)  Sida Chen, Liyu Pan, Yitong Wu, Yuan Feng - Multi-Link -
http://rcos.rpi.edu/projects/multi-link/ (mentor Brendon Clark)
9)  Ruben Madera, Cameron Root - Pentadactyl -
http://rcos.rpi.edu/projects/pentadactyl/ (mentor Theo Browne)

Some highlights:
inSquare has been downloaded a few hundred times - different clock faces (UI Design) for pebble watch. Programming is harder wth limited memory. Pebble has only two colors.
rClb showed a demo - They have done what they could. They showed fast/approximate search (search with spelling mistakes)
Blue Dash showed a demo. They have progressed well. This is for the formula SASE car. They created a custom dashboard with ardunio nano and blue tooth. It may have more general applications.
Pokeman RPI showed a demo. They have created all the basic block, They want to custom create the scenes with RPI background.
SharpNav has a number of contributors and users. So this project (finding paths) has matured .
ShareIt allows one to share the contacts, They use Ruby on Rails on the bakend and have Android and ios on the front end. Their slides are here http://slides.com/robertrouhani/sharpnav-8#/
OpenWSN group has designed a hardware chip and firmware for wireless sensor network. This project is working with UCB project on internet of things. Their slides are here http://slides.com/derekmeer/openwsn2015#/
Multi link allows one to get the status o various devies in one console. They started with peer to peer - settled on Client Server. They stil have some ways to go.
Pendactyl is a firefox plug in to have editor command to interact with a browser. They have done a good job of bringing this project to fruition. This group thanked their mentors.

Because we had a large number of presentation, we did not get as many questions as normaly we would. There were sufficient probing questions that heped the presenter as well as me.

I am happy with the way that the semester has progressed and ending!

Week 15 (12/2/2014) Fall Semester 2014

This is the last meeting of our Fall Semester 2014. We did not make the same mistake like last semesters (ut may have committed new ones :( ) I am satisfied with overall proceedings of the semester. But it did require a lot of efforts from various people. I should thank the lead mentors and all the mentors and Dr. Goldschmidt for thei part in making this semester a success.

The following groups made presentations:

1) Jake Lowey- SpokenMedia  http://rcos.rpi.edu/projects/spokenmedia/
(mentor Aaron Gunderson)
2) Jonathan Wrona, Dan Lowe - DnD5e Toolbox
http://rcos.rpi.edu/projects/ibeis/ (mentor Zach Jablons)
3) Amartya Chakraborty,Shinya Hirata,Sam Yuan,Sensen Chen,Aaron Cheng
- rClubs.me - http://rcos.rpi.edu/projects/rpi-tradebook/ (mentor
Jorel Lalicki)
4) Kevin Fung, Darren Lin, Garrett Chang - Emissary
http://rcos.rpi.edu/projects/emissary/ (mentor Kevin Fung)
5) Arya Seghatoleslami,Tom Yang and Jeemiah Hendrix  - YumYum! -
http://rcos.rpi.edu/projects/yumyum1/ (mentor Alex Freska)
6)Chenrui Cao, Xi Xi, Renjie Xie, Juntao Zhuang - 2W When and Where
http://rcos.rpi.edu/projects/2w-when-and-where/ (mentor Nicholas Pitt)
7) Emmett Hitz and Paul Revere - Vest -
http://rcos.rpi.edu/projects/vest/ (mentor Theo Browne)
8)Eric Oswald, Jorel Lalicki - Adaptable Automotive sensor
http://rcos.rpi.edu/projects/adaptable-automotive-sensor-logger/
(mentor Aaron Gunderson)

Spokenmedia was a new project (changed from 3D HCI) mid way through the semester. Thius project uses Dragon software and Microsoft's C++ (or is it C sharp). He could not show the demo - He is making a steady progress.

DnD5 is anew project (started after RPIHack) for playing dungeons and dragons. The have done some preliminary implementation. They plan to get the data (manual for the game) fromc crowd -sourcing. They also making sure that no violation against copy-rights. 

rClubs.me have progressed reasonaly well. They showed a demo. Main concern is the data for various clubs. Union is also starting  a new wbsite. As one poster mentioned it may worth joining efforts. rClus  also seem to include social aspects - I do not know the effect of this.

Emissary is a javascript (from python) program to watch the league of legends. They have made very good progress and they showed a demo.

YumYum project has come a long way. They included information aout downtown restaurants. They have uilt the system using Ruby on Rails.

When and Where is a websevice (written in PHP) for knowing uilding openings and facilities available in that uilding. They also showed a demo of their project.

Vest is a project to find potential victims from past crime data (based on a paper by a Yale Sociologist). They have scrapped faceook to get the friend of crime victims. Their next job is to verify aout the hypothesis.

Automative log sensor project is nearing its completion. Most of the programs and the circuit designs have been done. Remains to be incorporated in the automobile.

Finally a new project to install free ooms in a library notifier was proposed. This project was done in conjunction with RPI librray (has the blessings of Mr. Mayo).

Very nice talks and very interesting questions. I provided ice cream cake for all their efforts to show my token of appreciation.