engineering-kanban

Project Ideas

Tethered balloon wildfire observer platform. It would float up hundreds of feet into the air, then use a simple computer vision setup to look for fires and report their location back to the ground wirelessly.
AI assisted tool-path generation for CAM. If an open source AI model could be created that would generate a tool path for machining an object given a 3d model of it.
Make an autonomous vehicle simulation using the CARLA simulator

#hw Oval track time trials, two laps in each direction around the track, 30 minutes to work on code, then repeat. Winner picks dinner! 2025-04-03
#hw Introducing a 6-axis IMU - MPU6050 HowtoMech tutorial Prototype a circuit that reads data from the mpu6050 and displays it to the serial port
#hw Create a class to interface with the mpu6050. You'll need to look at the I2C serial interconnect protocol tutorial to see how to use it
#hw Use the IMU to implement an angle function that measures the current orientation and returns it as an angle.
#hw Use the IMU to implement move_by and turn_by, which each take a number and either move that far or turn by that amount.
#hw Use the turn_by and move_by to implement drive_to, which takes an x, y coordinate relative to the current position at angle 0 (set when bot started) and drives there.
#hw Add an ultrasonic-range-sensor to your bot.

#hw Drive the bots around on a simple oval track, two straight sections, two semicircles. Debug and optimize the line-following code 2025-04-01
#hw (robotics, gr10) Analyze what the biggest speed bottleneck is for your robot. What could you change about its behavior to make it follow the track faster? Write a technical report of 200-500 words that describes the problems you identified and proposes a step you can take to improve performance. It must be specific, measurable, and achievable in a reasonable amount of time. 2025-04-24

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