December 16th, 2008
I worked on a few interesting projects as part of my coursework at Duke. I compiled them here for ease of reference.
Educational Software for Enlace Quiche, Guatemala
SOCIOL192 - Information Technology & Social Entrepreneurship (Spring 2006)
I developed a functional spec for children’s educational software that was eventually deployed at Enlace Quiche, a network of technology centers for indigenous peoples in Guatemala. These two press releases embellish it:
http://www.pratt.duke.edu/news/?id=951
http://www.duke.admissionsgenie.com/profile_emmett_nicholas.asp
Accelerometer-based Game Machine
ECE154 - Embedded Systems (Fall 2007)
I worked with Andrew Ofstad and Lauren Cohen to build a portable video game console from scratch. It features a 3-axis accelerometer as its primary input device, an LCD for graphics, loads games off SD cards, and resides inside a pencil case. See it in action:
AAMPL: Accelerometer Augmented Mobile Phone Localization [pdf]
ECE256 - Wireless Networking (Spring 2008)
Andrew Ofstad, Rick Sczodronski, and I worked with Prof. Romit Choudhury to develop AAMPL, a method for localizing mobile devices in businesses according to accelerometer signatures. In September 2008, we were given the opportunity to present our work at the MOBICOM MELT08 Workshop in San Francisco.