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Project Ideas
- 3D Printer/Scanner - Using a RepRap, a 3-D scanner and 3-D CAD software.
- ASL Translator - Webcam app that observes what is signed in ASL and is turned into text. Can be spoken using a text-to-speech app.
- Backpack Glider & Scope - A lightweight telescope and an RC glider that can fit into a backpack-sized case.
- ML256 Shop Webcam Face ID & Display - Have a simple face ID app that can identify and project a person's name over their head on the shop webcam display. That way, we can tell who we are looking at in the shop.
- ML256 Telephone & Video Conference Table - Set up a table with full VoIP and Video over IP capability. Develop a lightweight web-based applet that can let someone outside join the conference online (minimum dialup).
- ML256 Tour Bus - Buy an old bus and modify it into a shop on wheels with a places to eat, cook, sleep, bathe and live. We can take it to conventions and use it as a project display piece and a place to stay.
- Radioactive Barrel Podium - Have a full multimedia presentation system in a steel drum on wheels. The system would include a computer with peripherals, speakers, a microphone, a paper stand and a projector. The barrel can be painted to look like a radioactive barrel.
- Real Instrument Guitar Hero - Have a Guitar Hero-like program that instead of taking inputs from a controller, takes the direct sound input of a musical instrument (either by direct plugin or microphone) and determines a musician's performance against a score or soundtrack of music. Think like the vocals for Rock Band. Can start with Frets on Fire.
- RF Popcorn Popper - Pop popcorn using the power of RF!
- Wifi Flying Drone - Have a solar-powered UAV with a WiFi hub and GPS programmed to hover at or orbit a specific point. A quick way to have internet access anywhere you want it.
Shop Ideas
- ML256 Shop Bath and Kitchen - Install a shower and washing machine in the shop and a basic kitchen.
- Regular BBQs/Cookins/Cooking Classes - Once a month, hold a cookout/cookin potluck at the shop where everyone brings something to cook and we all get to learn how to cook something.
- Regular Company/Tech Presentations - Once a month, have someone from a local company come and talk about their company and present something techy. This would be a great opportunity for people to learn about local job/networking opportunities and see what technology is being worked on in Huntsville.
- Regular Safety/Make Classes - Once a month, have someone conduct a class on shop safety or simple make projects to get people into the groove of the shop.
- Saturday Afternoon Shop Talk - Every Saturday Afternoon, we freeze work for half an hour so everyone can present or talk about what projects they are working on.
- Social Events - ?
Projects Related to HALO Project
Information on the HALO Project from HAL5.
- Rocket Launch Control & Telemetry - Potential use of a Wii controller for rocket telemetry and control.
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