Malappuram/MESCE/FSUG/GNU Lab

GNU LAB at MESCE kuttipuram,kerala.

GNU LAB

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GNU LAB AT MESCE

PROJECTS

WE have the following project 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 LAB

1. 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 at the bird's home

Voice controller robot:Speech recognition extension to FREEBIRD Project members:Shyam.k

The project aims to have speech recognition extension to freebird.The ATNGW100 board used in freebird as such dont 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.

Autonmomous Robot:Sensor extension to FreeBird Project members:Sachin chandrashekhar,shalima k.s,sanam ashraf.

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.

1. GNU HURD

Department of information technology has been working in projects on GNU HURD,the original kernel for GNU softwares.Last year,students of the then final year batch did the famous hurd installer project.students of IT continues with those projects.

1. Malayalam calendar

project member:Mahesh mukundan Project aim is to computerize the malayalam calendar system,so that keralite users' can have their traditional,calendar displayed on the system.

1. 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 pcs. scope of this project is enourmous 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(i.e. pango for GNOME..QT based for KDE...ETC)

1. 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 accodrdingly..SO design parameters also considers the scope for expanding the project to offer more..