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Here are a few project application ideas:
- Location and/or orientation discovery
- Wireless nodes using RSSI (received signal strength)
- Sonar-based acoustic distance estimation
- Using light-sensors (more info)
- Accelerometer-based position estimation
- Bluetooth tags
- Remote controlled car control
- Interface to a PC
- Interface to a better controller (wii-mote?)
- Interface to phone
- Home/office automation
- Intelligent lighting and temperature control
- Multi-function learning remote controller (PC programmable)
- Intelligent remote control range extenders
- Multimedia controller with information display
- Interface to X10
- Smart door locks
- Automotive information display (OBDII)
- Display diagnostic codes and reset if necessary
- More info here
- Car Alarm
- Interface with cel network
- Camera or other sensors
- Remote start
- Remote monitoring and alerts (e.g. current consumption)
- Report location
- Next generation controller (mouse?)
- Using gyro and accelerometers
- Smart phones
- Use a PC peripheral in new ways
- Do computation on a graphics card
- Use audio processor for doing something else
- Encryption / Decryption or security hardware
- Perform the algorithm on your hardware
- Is ok to read/write data to/from a PC (e.g. serial port)
- Programmable Holiday Lights
- Get creative! Make it programmable
- Sync to music
- Scriptable
- Game
- Recreate several classic LCD-type games
- Emulate an Atari 2600?
- Emulate NES, SNES, or C64? This may be more difficult though it may be possible.
- Interface to a C64 DTV to for example provide ability to load and run arbitrary programs from some memory bank or a PC.
- Interface to some other game device
- Video surveillance
- Using low-cost imagers to do surveillance
- Simple object tracking
- Check CMUCam for some ideas
- Robotics
- There are plenty of ideas to explore in this domain. Of course keep the main project focus in mind.
- Network monitoring
- Packet sniffer
- Wireless/wired network analyzer
- Bandwidth monitor
- Firewall or router
- Android
- Interface with a wii-mote
- Cloud-based projects