Cornell University FPGA Class Projects for 2008

Matt writes "The new crop of Cornell University ECE 5760 projects are now online. Some really cool projects, as well as the previous two years' worth of projects." Since it's mid-December, many other schools, too, have either just let out or are about to; can you point to any other online collections of cool technical projects?

Re:Oh, wow

[Ubitsa_teh_1337]

They're class projects, they're not supposed to be as awesome as something you'd do in your own time. My project for a similar class at my uni was to build a simple PIC-based LEGO controller, it was nothing special but lots of fun to play with of course, which is the most important thing :)

Incredibly good class

[Rozine]

I took the microcontroller equivalent of this class at Cornell when I was there. (I couldn't fit 576 into my schedule, unfortunately.) I have to say, that despite the weeks of all nighters we put into the projects, Bruce Land's class was the best I've ever had, and it did more to keep my interest in ECE and computers than all of the other CS and ECE classes I took. I literally got sick from working on the project too much, but it was so fun that it was worth it. If you ever want to try your hand at microcontrollers or FPGA's, and don't have much of a background in them, I recommend trying this out. The equipment you need is fairly cheap, the labs are fun, and the knowledge is priceless. There's a lot of toil in the workplace, but remembering this class (and working on similar things on the side) keeps my interest in electronics and programming ticking.

Georgia Tech Senior Design Projects

[themacks]

The websites for Georgia Tech's senior design projects can be found here:

http://www.ece.gatech.edu/academic/courses/ece4007/web/index.html [gatech.edu]

MIT's lab

[Anonymous Coward]

http://web.mit.edu/6.111 has FPGA projects with videos, documentation and code

Altera DE2 Cyclone II FPGA is Great

[gbrayut]

I used the same board during my senior project at the University of Utah. It is a great FPGA with tons of options. Our group was sponsored by Micron and built a testing platform for NAND Flash memory [google.com] that got us a spot presenting at the 2008 FLASH Memory Summit. [googlecode.com]

UIUC ECE Senior Design

[jbf]

http://courses.ece.uiuc.edu/ece445/?g=Home&p=Projects&c=Featured%20Projects [uiuc.edu]

Includes some crazy stuff like a photographing UAV, a PC-based oscilloscope, and a combination lock brute-forcer.

I'm eFamous!

[mach7]

I'm in this class. I worked on the Speaker Recognition project. It was very hard. Some comments and responses to other posts:

• This is not a shitty program. In fact, it's probably one of the top programs in Cornell Engineering.
• Both this class and the microcontroller class are taught by Bruce Land, an excellent professor. He's been at Cornell forever and knows just about everything.
• Bear in mind that these projects were done in 4-5 weeks and this is only one of several courses that each student takes.
• No one goes to the library for books any more. In five years at Cornell, I've had to get a library book once to find something I couldn't find online.
• Wikipedia is an excellent reference. If nothing else, it is useful as a platform for finding the keywords necessary to more fully investigate a subject.
• Our project does reference "real" publications - these are easily found using Google Scholar.

If you have any questions about the class, I'd be happy to answer them.

Stanford CS 229, Machine Learning, projects

[Animats]

I just saw the poster presentations from CS 229 [stanford.edu], Machine Learning, at Stanford. The current batch of projects aren't on line yet, but the ones from previous years are.

The projects were very impressive. A vision-guided autonomous helicopter. A system for separating out instruments and vocals from existing audio. A CAPTCHA solver. De-blurring of out of of focus images. Flower recognition. Recognition of hostile network traffic. And those were just a few of the projects. Machine learning really works now.