Projects

There are few "organised" projects going on at UCC at any one time. We do have lots of cool ideas and people are often working on interesting things. The best way to find out what we're doing is to hang around in the clubroom and join in!

Ongoing projects include:

• Various rewrites of the Coke system
• Web Site Development
• Freshers' Guide
• The LURC

Past projects, in various stages of completion, include:

• CodeWiki - write, run, debug your code in an online, collaborative environment
• MIFARE smartcard support for the snack machine
• AVR microcontrollers for embedded devices
• Robotics
• Reprogramming our snack machine to be able to dispense snacks (like the coke machine) (see the web page)
• 7-machine Mosix Cluster
• Enterprise number allocations to UCC projects
• Network Bolo
• Webcam motor directional control

Proposed projects and cool ideas:

• Build a Plasma Speaker, similar to this
• Build a 'lab' power supply for the projects bench
• Build a PCB router from open source plans for the projects bench, similar to this
• Build a simple laser projector and maybe make it render the XKCD comic of the day
• Create a UCC group to follow [BOB] on a permanent basis and fix up all the mistakes he makes on the wiki/website
• Wouldn't it be cool if we could build our own Zone3/Quasar style shoot'emup packs?
• A way for people to fill in a form and pay on the website in order to become members (with all usernames and whatnot automagically created)
• Various flame throwers, missile launchers, and thermite booby traps