Senior Project Opportunities
2020-2021 Projects
- – Represent a life-size Girl Scout
- – Have an electronic interface (screen and voice recognition) to interact with customers
- – Be made (or appear to be made) from Lego building blocks
Stretch Goal: The robot Girl Scout could move her arm into the Girl Scout hand sign.
Project Flyer | Life-Size Interactive Lego Girl Scout Robot
For this project, CPE students will be working with an ME senior project team this winter/spring to develop a Phase 1 proposal for this NASA Centennial “Break the Ice Challenge.” Phase 1 is design-only, the ME team could then build/test some hardware to verify parts of their design in the Fall.
Link | NASA Centennial ChallengeLink | Youtube Video
Pitch 2 Programmers is a senior project presentation session organized by the CSSE Department. Pitch2Programmers is designed to help you sign up for senior project and hear about potential projects you can start working on now! This “event” will be conducted entirely asynchronously through surveys and flipgrids leading into project team formation.
Link | Pitch to Programmers
Professor Door Information Portal
Advisor: Paul Hummel | phummel@calpoly.edu
- – 7”+ touchscreen
- – Display Prof’s schedule
- – Allow for reserving a meeting time (youcanbook.me)
- – Remote access to post a message on the screen
- – Interface to easy change preset messages/designations for busy/available from a desk using wired buttons, QR codes, or NFC tokens
– Ability to send a short message to Prof (email, chat, or SMS)
- – Automatic Guitar Tabulature Generator
- – Guitar Bowing Device
- – String Height Measurement Device
- – Music Meter Measurement
Non-Music Based Senior Projects
- – Hot Water Heater Trickle Charger
- – Sun-Powered Crematorium
- – Poor Person’s Skylight
- – Inexpensive Solar Refrigerator
- – Digital Watch Booster for the Hearing Impaired
- – Green Garden Tool: The Snailcutioner
- – Green Tool: the Autonomous Mosquito Trap
- – Nervous Foot Computer Power
- – PolyRatings-type Website for Cal Poly Administrators
- – Digital Design Development Daughterboards
- – Basys3 USB Communication Interface Reference Design
- – Basys3 Mouse Interface Reference Design
- – Basys3 Serial Interface Reference Design
Project Flyer | Details for Dr. Mealy’s Senior Project Ideas