It's great to get these milestones knocked off.
Today was the day for all the senior project groups to show off their designs with a poster and any other appropriate displays. The guys who designed and built a paintball gun (reportedly able to shoot over 40 rounds per minute at some painful velocity) did their demo outside in an area marked off with police tape. Most of the rest of us were indoors with our posters. All my group had to show off was a couple circuit boards and a slide show running on Ratso's laptop. Along with the UAV group, we took over one corner of the lobby. They had the eye-catching planes and assorted (borrowed) laptops running video recorded from some of the successful flights. I noticed they didn't have the video from the plane that crashed, although they did have a bit of its tail on display in memoriam thereof. Also on display was the little Hot Wheels plane I got them as a pity plane after the crash. (Aww.) They were waving it around, talking about mini-UAVs, and pecking people with its nosecone.
Another group had a neat project that I hadn't heard of. They designed a system with both hardware and software elements that would recognize a song sung into it by a user, pull the song out of a database, and play it.
My team took turns explaining our project to visitors, including parents, cousins, friends, professors, and deans. I think my head will explode if I have to give the spiel one more time.
264 words | April 29, 2005 09:49 PM | Ivory tower