Olin university chapter/projects
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[edit] The purpose of this page
This page contains a list of projects proposed, planned, and being worked on by members of the Olin College OLPC University Chapter and friends.
[edit] Projects
Please post proposed projects here, so that we can apply for Developers program support (like XOs to use).
| Project Name | Project Description | Professor | Contact | Materials needed | Additional Information |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| the title/name of your project | a basic description of your project | which Olin prof is supervising your project? (required) | your name here (link to user page, if you have a wiki account) | what do you need to do it? | anything else you want to say |
| Yalp | Audio sampling toy | n/a | Ben Fisher | nothing - done | |
| Distributed mesh weather sensors (as an educational and research tool) | Create a USB weather data collection unit that can be inexpensively produced and provided to (students / schools). | Software Design / POE | Greg | Some money for prototyping, some people who like electronics, some people who want to develop the backend, some people who want to develop the XO mesh logging software. | Just an idea Andy Barry, myself, and Evan Morikawa came up with. |
| "Lights" game for OLPCs | Implement the "lights" game for the OLPC. [Online version of game]. | Software Design | Greg | An OLPC and someone who knows a bit about PyGame type stuff. | It's a super fun addictive game. |
| "Unicoder" Character Pad | Simple text editor for quickly entering non-ascii characters. | Unknown | Ben Fisher | Completion, ideas, feedback, maybe someone who knows Sugar | I'm not sure whether this should be a dhtml-js or Python-gui. I have something that kinda works in Firefox. |
| MIDIpad | A program for creating electronic music. | Unknown | Ben Fisher | A bit more planning, implementation. I don't have enough time to do this alone. | Although many people associate MIDIs with cheap crappy audio, this is only only because modern computers tend to use low-quality instruments. Back in the day, there were actually good-sounding MIDI sound cards. Timidity can also render using SoundFonts, and there are some very good SoundFonts available online. |
| Mp3 tagger | Program for adding/changing ID3 tags for mp3/ogg audio files. The freeware program Mp3Tag is very good but its source is closed. Also, I'd like to add some ways to make metadata entry faster. | Unknown | Ben Fisher | Finishing it, help with the gui | Will the user need to organize files? What is the XO's filesystem? |
| USB GPS Device | Hardware GPS to connect to XO. | Unknown | Andy P | Software modification | This is another example of hardware that could produce value to international companies, creating income generation opportunities. |
| Development Image on ACL Machine | Install Sugar onto an ACL machine so we can play with it, and test things out faster than on the XOs | Mark Chang, hopefully | Stephen L | ACL Machine, Sugar image, Fedora | Should be useful |
[edit] Proposed projects
- Reproduce and try to understand the B4 Suspend ECR bug. If really ambitious, modify B4 to fix and test again.
- Gather, test, and mount sensors into B4's case (selectable by external switch directly into audio jack).
- Get frequency response for both speakers and audio-out jack.
- Film "Disassembly: The Movie" with commentary from as many professors as possible.
