2015/2016 Project Ideas
This is a community-driven list of project ideas for the 2015/2016 academic year; please feel free to add to it, or to bother whomever the project head would be!
Statuses are as follows:
Need Leader: The project has been suggested, but no one has volunteered to coordinate it.
Prep: A person has volunteered to coordinate the project, but needs to prepare or is busy with other things.
Ready: The project would begin if enough people were interested. Feel free to join!
In progress: The project has started. Feel free to join!
Fall 2015 Ideas
Below are ideas that were either suggested or done in the fall 2015 semester. If you are interested in continuing work on these projects in 2016, move it down to the Spring 2016 table
| Project Name | Project Leader | Notes | status |
|---|---|---|---|
| UFSCLC | Graham Northup | The United Federation of Student Communities for Libre Computing project (probably involving simple websites and hosting) | In progress |
| Mesh Networking | Rust | Creating a mesh network for fun! | Prep |
| FPGA (OpenRISC, RISC-V) | Exploring implementing or using existing implementations of free, openly developed ISAs on an FPGA. | Need Leader | |
| PDP-11 hackery | Alan Beadle | Ready | |
| ITL Chorus | Graham Northup | An entire chorus of singing computers! | In Progress |
| Tux robot | Kyle Pedersen, Phong Ho | In Progress | |
| Telepresence robot | Need Leader | ||
| Cooking w/ Pi | Kiki | A workshop on Pi and possible Pi projects for 2015/2016 | Prep |
| Playing w/ Pi | Kiki | Using a model 2 Raspberry Pi to create a multi-platform retro game emulator (NES/SNES/GAMEBOY)-(Famicom TBD) | Prep |
| Multipurpose Lunchbox Pi | Kiki | Finishing and improving the MLP, with potential to design and build more | In Progress |
| "State of the Industry" OS GPU Talk | Baha | A presentation on the support and relative performance of modern GPU's in the OS world. | Prep |
Spring 2016
Below are ideas that are going to be worked on in 2016
| Project Name | Project Leader | Notes | status |
|---|---|---|---|
| DubsDot | Benjamin Lannon | COSI's WebDev team & The future VM that will host COSI Web services (such as Talks, Fsuvius, etc.) | Prep |
| FRUX | Alan Beadle | A GNU/Linux-libre distribution based on the free-software parts of CRUX | In Progress |
| CDC: COSI Distributed Computing | Mike Fulton & Benjamin Lannon | A project to turn the ITL into a computing cluster | Prep |
| Sol-lang | Graham Northup | The newest version of the Sol programming language | In Progress |
| CPR: Cosi Projects for Robotics | Mike Fulton | A series of projects using the robots (2 Turtlebots and a Husky) the labs gained in December 2015 | Prep |
| OpenCV | Mike Fulton | Prep | |
| BigBlueButton | Benjamin Lannon | An open source web conferencing system made for remote learning | In Progress |
| Robigalia | Rust | Implementing a secure capabilities-based Linux-compatible POSIX layer on top of seL4 to make it easy to deploy. | In Progress |
| 7HRL 3 | Benjamin Lannon | The 3rd edition of the 7 Hour Rogue-like: A game jam to create a rogue-like in only 7 hours. Planning on March for a date | Prep |
| Machine Learning | Mike Fulton | A project where COSI learns about Machine/Deep Learning | Prep |
