Malappuram/MESCE/FSUG/GNU Lab

GNU Lab at MESCE Kuttipuram, Kerala.

GNU Labs

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GNU Labs at MESCE

PROJECTS

We have the following projects under consideration. Some of these projects are still under discussion and we will make all these projects start officially at the occasion of inauguration of GNU Labs. If you find any of the projects below, worth dedicating yourself to, please do team up as shown below.

1. Name

at the corresponding project. Also, please add the project ideas that you think is relevant under GNU Labs.

FreeBird

FreeBird is a GNU/LINUX based mobile robot based on atmel's avr32 network gateway board, ATGNW100. FreeBird is a robotic platform for engineering students to study programming. More about FreeBird is at the bird's home

Voice controller robot:Speech recognition extension to FreeBird

The project aims to have speech recognition extension to FreeBird. The ATNGW100 board used in FreeBird as such don't support audio input. So audio input is added with the help of ac97 audio-codec chip cs4202, as later speech recognition libraries are ported to the board to make the board respond to the voice commands.

Project members:

1. Shyam.K

Autonmomous Robot:Sensor extension to FreeBird

Project members:

1. Sachin Chandrashekhar
2. Shalima K.S
3. Sanam Ashraf

The project aims to add ultrasonic and digital compass sensors to free bird. Enabling those pair of sensors make the robot move avoiding obstacles and report where it has been reached, using the digital compass. If obstacles are static, the robot can be programmed to trace back the way it went, by storing the information sent by the digital compass.

Wireless extension to FreeBird(under discussion)

Project aims to have zignee modules added to FreeBird to enable it with the capability of wireless communication.

Project Members

GNU HURD

GNU HURD is the original kernel for GNU softwares. It is still unstable.

GNU HURD Installer

Department of information technology has been working in projects on GNU HURD. Last year, students of the then final year batch did the famous HURD installer project. The project aims to update the installer for the current version of kernal.

Project Members

USB interface driver for GNU HURD

This project aims to create a USB generic driver for the GNU HURD kernel, which is not available till now.

Project Members

1. Mahesh M
2. Manu Krishnan T.V
3. Sajjad K.M

Malayalam calendar

Project aims to computerize the Malayalam calendar system, so that keralite users can have their traditional, calendar displayed on the system.

Project Members:

1. Mahesh M

I can help integrating it with KDE. I'm working with Santhosh on Saka calendar for KDE. Pravs 00:50, 30 November 2008 (UTC)

Web Admin Control Panel

This project aims to develop a web admin control panel, an alternative for the proprietary C-Panel and WHM, either by modifying an existing project under GPL or by starting from scratch

Project Members

1. Manu Krishnan T.V

Porting Free Download Manager to GNU/Linux

Free Download Manager is a powerful, easy-to-use and absolutely free download accelerator and manager. Moreover, FDM is 100% safe, Free Software distributed under GPL license, currently available for Windows platform. The project aims to port it to GNU/Linux environment. More about Free Download Manger(FDM) can be found at http://www.freedownloadmanager.org/

Project Members

1. Manu Krishnan T.V
2. Mahesh M
3. Sajjad K.M

Malayalam LCD Display(under discussion)

Project aims to build a module, consisting of an LCD panel and a controller section, which as a whole, can display Malayalam in proper fashion, as in usual PC's. Scope of this project is enormous as it offers Malayalam display for the whole range of embedded systems. Complexity of the project is equally high, as it has to handle the rendering issues and algorithms, which are handled by the rendering engine in a usual PC(ie. pango for GNOME... QT based for KDE... etc)

Hardware OGG player(under discussion)

The ultimate aim of the project is to have a portable, complete multimedia system for the user, with which one can take pictures and videos, record it on free formats. Also it can act as a personal music player. Initially we expect to develop an ogg vorbis player, which can be later extended accordingly. So, design parameters also considers the scope for expanding the project to offer more...

KTechLab for ATMEL AVR Micro controller

KTechLab is a Free Software Integrated Design Environment (IDE) for electronic and PIC microcontroller circuit design and simulation. Current version of KTechLab does not support Atmel microcontrollers. Aim of this project is to add support of the Atmel microcontroller.

Project Members:

1. Yasir P.V.
2. Harish S.
3. Sangeeta M.
4. Swapna P.S.

ACTIVITIES

Phoenix Group

This group is dedicated for projects related to phoenix box. Phoenix allows you to develop science experiments by connecting sensor / control elements to a computer and access them through software. Different state governments are considering deployment of phoenix box across the science labs as an effective teaching aid. details about phoenix box can be seen here http://www.nsc.res.in/~elab/phoenix/ Interested people can join the group by just listing their name in the below list,and start hacking!:)

Language Team

This group is dedicated for works on language computing including localistion of GNU/Linux graphical interfaces Such as KDE and GNOME and even more advanced activities in the field of Language Computing Such as OCR,TTS systems etc... For more info checkout the Team Page

Asterisk User Group

Asterisk is a great software that offers a lot in telephony. If anyone is interested, we could setup an asterisk based user group, which essentially does call forwarding to a group of volunteers available at the moment. That is, we have a system with asterisk in it, and the system is configured with the phone numbers of volunteers who wish to answer queries from people through phone during a given period of a day as they wish. So, asterisk can automatically forward the call from a user to the volunteer who is available at the moment. Interested students may list your names below.

Useful links

Home: http://www.asterisk.org/

About: http://www.asterisk.org/support/about

Architecture: http://www.asterisk.org/support/architecture

Features: http://www.asterisk.org/support/features