Grade Retrieval Site
After a multitude of emails from students asking for their grades, I thought the best use of my time would be to make a Grade Retrieval website.[ ----------- 100% ------------ ]
Status: Completed
Projects
Custom Movie Database with Web/App Interface
What happens when you collect too many movies? Create an application to keep track of them all![ ------------ 95% ---------- ]
Status: In Progress
Adaptive Brake Light Retrofit
Instead of having a binary third brake light, why not make it more descriptive about your negative acceleration?[ -- 10% ]
Status: Planning
Migrating Email Hosts With Imapsync
An investigation of moving from a web host running Squirrelmail to using Google Apps Gmail while preserving all users' emails with imapsync.[ ----------- 100% ------------ ]
Status: Completed
Banana Phone
This project had me tearing apart a bluetooth headset and ripping the stuffing out of a stuffed banana to create a ridiculous looking and oversized (but lovable) wireless handset.[ ----------- 100% ------------ ]
Status: Completed
HTML / Javascript Automatic Grader
Continuing from the Microsoft Office Cheat Checker program, this adds automatic grading to the base application for two of the class' assignments: HTML and Javascript.[ --------- 40% ]
Status: Stopped
Reason: Very difficult to treat all edge cases (students grades) fairly
Microsoft Office Cheat Checker
Acting as a Teaching Assistant and wanting to catch cheaters, this VBA application compares the meta data from an archive of previous class' files with the current class' files, and outputs a list of files that are suspected to have already been submitted.[ ----------- 100% ------------ ]
Status: Completed
Real-time GPS Tracking with SMS and Google Maps
My Cal Poly Senior Project was remote device tracking using SMS and Google Maps. It involved interfacing a GPS receiver and cell phone to a development board with an LCD, an embedded web server running Microchip’s TCP/IP Stack serving a dynamic Google Maps page, and communication between the development board and server through SMS text messages[ ----------- 100% ------------ ]
Status: Completed
Window Blind Rod “Neon” Lights
Want to make a neon sign but you don't know how to blow glass, or don't want to spend hundreds of dollars on it? Use LEDs and acrylic window blind rods![ ----------- 100% ------------ ]
Status: Completed
MIDI Beer Bottle Opener
When I got my hands on a USC talking bottle opener, I thought "Huh.. this could be more inspirational." One PIC and a few hours later, this bottle opener now plays a MIDI version of Chariots of Fire![ ----------- 100% ------------ ]
Status: Completed
Car Navigation Lockout Bypass
When the headunit in my car tells me "you must be stopped before being able to perform certain operations", I say "how can we trick the headunit into thinking we are stopped?"[ ----------- 100% ------------ ]
Status: Completed
Pong
Recreating Pong using a Motorola M68HC12 as the CPU, RAM, ROM, a PAL, and a few other chips that were all wire-wrapped together.[ ----------- 100% ------------ ]
Status: Completed
Footphone
What's the next step after making a handset for a cell phone? Turning a shoe into a full-fledged phone - just like in Get Smart. Well, sort of.[ -------- 35% ]
Status: Stopped
Reason: Cell phones get crushed easily..
Cell phone handset
Since cell phones continuously get smaller and smaller, wouldn't it be hilarious to see someone walking down the street talking into a home phone handset? Yes; the answer is yes.[ ----------- 100% ------------ ]
Status: Completed
