Our students have delighted us with a cornucopia of creative projects each quarter. This gallery shares a sampling of that awesomeness. What cool thing will YOU be inspired to create?
Click below to view a short highlight reel from the project demonstration session in Spring 2017.
Here are short descriptions of some projects from past years:
- Noob Cube
- Graphical viewer for a 3D wireframe
- Pi Selfie Mirror
- Take a selfie with animations displayed on a mirror-monitor
- Chess but cool
- Chess board that can record & visualize moves on a screen (using Hall-effect sensors)
- Threading system
- Multi-threading system so Pi can simulate running code in parallel
- Keyboard Orchestra
- Record/play music using keyboard
- Sunlight lamp
- Lamp that mirrors natural sunlight intensity throughout day
- Drum hero
- Electronic drumset with piezoelectric vibration sensors
- SPI Network with device-device communication
- Communication between Pis (display received data, store to memory, run received code)
- Fruit Ninja
- arcade game controlled by user hand gestures (sonar sensors)
- Theremins visualized
- Translate time-of-flight distance to pitch and output sound and visualization
- Synthetic Music
- Synthetic instrument using piezo sensors on fingers, and output sound and visualization
- Light-up dress
- Dress which lights up with electroluminescent wires when you move (based on gyroscope)
- Etch-a-sketch
- Takes input from two knobs, accelerometer, and push buttons: controls menu UI and paint program
- ArduCAM library
- A library to retrieve images from ArduCAM, along with an interactive control shell
- Robo-Turtle
- A robotic turtle with servo motors and ultrasonic sensor, controllable with an NES controller
- Raspberry Pi GPU
- An assembler which targets the Pi GPU and guide to using the GPU from bare metal
- Intruder detection system
- Detect motion using network of passive infrared sensors
- DMX lighting console and receiver
- User interface to set/read lighting controls
- 2-player basketball arcade game
- IR sensor checks when ball goes into basket
- Sensor visualizer
- Car dashboard-like visualization of MCP3008 ADC, including a GL library
- Clappy bird
- Arcade game controlled by sound
- Finger-spelling recognition
- Recognize letters spelled while wearing sensor-equipped glove
- Walking weatherman
- Wearable shirt with environment sensors and informational display via leds
- Post-it printer
- User paints picture on Pi which is then drawn on a Post-It using a pen controlled by stepper motors
- Vintage boombox
- Plays music through a refitted vintage radio case with LED visualization
- LED leggings
- Leggings with sewn-in LEDs that respond to movement of wearer
- Magic organ
- Multiple stops that shape frequency signature of sound akin to pipe organ
- Gesture-controlled car
- Car is wirelessly controlled via a glove outfitted with sensors
- Text-a-sketch
- Pi receives texted photo and drives stepper motors to dial a physical Etch-a-Sketch to replicate photo
- PiCycle
- Automatic brake and turn signals for your bike
- Boba maker
- Swipe your Stanford ID and receive your preferred beverage mixed to order
- Gun of the sentry
- Nerf gun that tracks and shoots at moving target
- Pi Rat
- Sensing and mobile robot that can autonomously solve a maze
- POV sphere
- Rotating strip of leds to create illusion of spherical image
- Workout buddy
- Wearable sensors to count reps at the gym
- Dance steps arcade game
- Step on pads in correct pattern/timing to win game
- Lie detector
- Biometric sensors evaluate truthfulness of speaker
- Custom font
- Draw letters on screen to create custom handwriting font
- BattleDarts
- Battleship game where shot is fired by throwing dart onto board
- Midi stepper synth
- Midi from piano keyboard is visualized on screen, drive stepper motors to play notes
- Bop-it game
- Sensors to detect various actions
- Lego printer
- print image via pick-and-place of lego pixels on grid board
- Escalating challenge snooze
- each use of snooze alarm is harder to shut off
- Gesture tetris
- game controlled via hand gestures
- Zen garden
- Draw patterns in sandbox by moving magnet via stepper motors