ECE497 Project Ideas

We have both mini projects and projects in ECE497.

Mini projects involved finding something interested in the Beagle world and installing it to your beagle and demoing it to the class. You would also create a wiki page documenting what you did to get it installed. Often you may find multiple efforts do to something, for example there are a few efforts to port Android on the Beagle. Your task is to figure out which one should be used. Generally mini projects won't require you to write new code; however they are the background work that may lead to a full project. You should do a couple mini projects for the class. Generally they are done alone, but working in pairs is OK. These will be about 1/3 of your grade and should be done in the first 5 weeks or so.

Only one full project is done for the class and it's done with a team of 3 or 4. These projects can take a mini project (or a whole new idea) and add to it. The goal is to have your work contribute to the open source world. Any code is generated will be kept on github and a bitbake receipt will be created to automatically download and create the object files.

What follows are


 * Places to look for project ideas: Feel free to add your own suggestions.
 * Mini Project ideas: Add your own suggestions, and do some of them. Mark the ones you've done.
 * Full Project ideas: ditto.

Sources for Project Ideas
Here are some links where you'll find ideas for your project.
 * ETechDays Community Lightning Talks, this is a one-day web-based conference where many project ideas are presented. One of our 2009-2010 senior design projects was found here.
 * Official list of Beagle Projects, there are many Beagle specific projects listed here. Many are inactive.  List your project here once it running.
 * Augmented Reality Project, here's an idea that I think we can do on the Beagle. Rather than using augmented reality glasses, I'd suggest we use a TI DLP pico projector. Here's AR running on the Beagle.
 * Android, this is one of a couple of efforts to port Google's Android OS to the Beagle.
 * BeagleBoard/Ideas-2009 Google summer code ideas 2009.

Fall 2013

 * WireShark
 * ThingSpeak
 * Rainboduio Game

2011
Edit this page to add projects you would like to do. If you aren't in the class, add ideas you would like to see done by class members.