Overview

This document describes the third INB102 Emerging Technologies module. Unlike the first two modules, this module is not assessed through a workbook, but throughareport and accompanying materials: presentation, videos and demo.

Mini-projects allow you to undertake a deeper study into someparticular computer technologies and to make something of your choice. These projects can be undertaken in small groups allowing you to learn from others and to develop teamwork skills. Projects comprises the investigation, design and implementation of a set of different computer technologies configured for a novel purpose.

The objective of the project is to explore a computer technology beyond that covered in the practicals and lecture. It is not expected that you will build and program a new computer system from scratch, rather the goal is to replicate, modify, extend or enhance an existing design and implementation. Typically you might follow an online tutorial to make something e.g. installing and configuring a simple PHP web server, and to extend it in some way. You should use Raspberry Pi computers in your project.Many projects will be based on existing Raspberry Pi projects or combinations or parts of them. Generally it is expected that most projects will involve some form of communication such as a web service, web server, TCP/IP networking etc. If your project is a pure standalone project then please discuss with your tutor to ensure it has adequate scope.

It is important that all ideas, information and work taken from others is correctly cited; you should follow QUT guidelines: http://www.citewrite.qut.edu.au/cite/.

Projects must be agreed in advance with your tutor. You only have four weeks to undertake your mini-project hence you need to be realistic in what you hope to achieve. A list of project ideas and default projects are included in this document. Groups who cannot devise reasonable project by week 10 will be allocated one of the default projects. Projects may not use mains level voltages.

In weeks 9-13 there will concentrate more on the projects. Please contact the unit coordinator or your tutor if you have any requests for particular topics.

Project: Projects must be agreed upon with tutors by week 10

Group work: You may work in groups of 1-3 students.

Submission:Projects are due in your week 13 Friday September 30, 11:59 PM via Blackboard. Your tutor will tell you how they would like you to submit projects. In week 13 you should submit:

- A report of (max 12 pages) detailing your mini project including a statement of contribution.
- Your report must also be submitted online to the through blackboard.
- Presentation/demonstration of your project to your tutor and the rest of the class
- Video of your project (maximum of 4-5 minutes duration) either on YouTube or DVD
Assessment: You will be assessed based on the criterion referenced assessment sheet shown overleaf. Note the presentations and demos are to demonstrate your implementation. They are not assessed for them, there are no marks for your presentation style or effectiveness. However it is in your interest to effectively present your work in both written and spoken form since this is how we know what you have done and learnt.

Project Presentation and Video

You should try to demonstrate your project to your tutor and the rest of the class in week 13. Please discuss in advance with your tutor if you need any special equipment. If you are unable to demonstrate your project you should still give a presentation on what you have done. Given the number of groups you are unlikely to have more than 8 minutes for this so please think about what you want to show. You should also make a short (maximum 3 minute) video of your project. Please submit this as a CD/DVD with your report or post a video to YouTube and include a link to this in your report and also email the link to your tutor. You will not be marked on the quality of your video or demonstration, they are purely to show your tutor what you have done.

More help, info/relevant links will be available via Mini project folder on Blackboard throughout the semester.

Project Report

Your project report should comprise the following sections:

1. Front Page (see below)

2. Statement of contribution(see below)

3. Project Objectives (half a page max): What is the goal of the project?

4. Review and Discussion of Technologies Used (5 pages max): High level discussion of the technologies used, why were they used, alternatives, how they work (high level) and how they relate to the technologies presented in lectures.

5. Design and Implementation (5 pages max): Discuss details of the design and implementation, how it works, challenges you faced, configuration, experimentation, results etc. Include a system diagram and discuss future directions / improvements.

6. References( around 1 or 2 pages max)

Reports have been kept deliberately short 12 pages or less and excess pages will not be read, so you need to think carefully about what you write/what is important.Project Ideas

There are many project ideas to be found in the MagPi Raspberry Pi magazine (www.themagpi.com) or in the various raspberry pi forums and web sites, try starting at www.raspberrypi.org.

I've included some links and project ideas below; however please don't be restricted by these, there are many interesting projects you can undertake, but please do discuss your project ideas with your tutor. In particular please speak with your tutor and unit coordinator early if your project requires additional specialist hardware e.g. robotics which we need to purchase. Small, cheap bits of hardware are available from the level 9 resources room of S block and other hardware can be borrowed.

1. Internet of things

Investigate the internet of things and build your own internet enabled thing using a Raspberry Pi. For example you might like to connect your Raspberry Pi to the xively (https://xively.com/) web service and build on the xively exercise in Practical 9. The S block, level 9 resources room has various sensors, switches, actuators, LEDs etc which you can use.Alternatively you might like to investigate home automation (please do not try to switch mains power appliances on and off, rather simulate this with LEDs etc).

https://xively.com/dev/tutorials/pi/

https://sites.google.com/site/benhewitttechnology/raspberry-pi-with-xivley

Alternatives to xively are:

- Sparkfun data service: https://data.sparkfun.com/ here is a tutorial for using that service: https://learn.sparkfun.com/tutorials/pushing-data-to-datasparkfuncom/raspberry-pi-python

- Dropbox http://raspi.tv/2013/how-to-use-dropbox-with-raspberry-pi, https://github.com/andreafabrizi/Dropbox-Uploader

- Adafruithttps://io.adafruit.com/

- Thingspeakhttp://www.dexterindustries.com/BrickPi/projects/thingspeak-temperature-log/

You can also try usingNodejs and Nodereds to configure internet connected things.
https://learn.adafruit.com/raspberry-pi-hosting-node-red/what-is-node-red
http://nodered.org/docs/hardware/raspberrypi.html
Another alternative is to use IFTTT (https://ifttt.com/).
Or you might like to build a twitter speaker which speaks tweets:
http://itp.nyu.edu/~wdl225/work/?p=286
http://www.stuffaboutcode.com/2012/10/raspberry-pi-python-talking-twitter.html
Or build your own wireless gadget, or other home automationgadget - but no mains voltagesplease.

2. Networking

Build your own router /access point / firewall / ad blocker / onion router / NAS / proxy / network bridge/ vpnand investigate computer networking.
https://learn.adafruit.com/onion-pi/overview
http://www.howtogeek.com/139433/how-to-turn-a-raspberry-pi-into-a-low-power-network-storage-device/
https://learn.adafruit.com/setting-up-a-raspberry-pi-as-a-wifi-access-point/overview
(Note the usbwifi dongles on the QUT RPis support access point mode.)
http://www.themagpi.com/issue/issue-11/article/turn-your-raspberry-pi-into-a-wireless-access-point/
http://readwrite.com/2014/04/10/raspberry-pi-vpn-tutorial-server-secure-web-browsing

3. Internet Radio

Build your own internet radio and investigate media streaming and networking
http://contractorwolf.wordpress.com/raspberry-pi-radio/
http://www.instructables.com/id/Arduino-Raspberry-Pi-Internet-Radio/

4. Cloud computing

Try running ownCloud on a raspberry pi. Investigate cloud technologies and how they work.
http://owncloud.org/
http://www.instructables.com/id/Raspberry-Pi-Owncloud-dropbox-clone/
http://www.owncloudbook.com/owncloud-on-raspberry-pi/
Alternatively you might want to investigate arkOShttps://arkos.io/

5. Virtual machines

Compare and contrast different virtual machines e.g. JVM, Mono (CLR) and pypy on the raspberry pi. Compare their features and performance.

6. Robots

Build a robot using Raspberry Pi. Investigate robotics and embedded computing technology. Note you will need to speak with your tutor about the availability of hardware.

7. Games

Build a game for the Raspberry Pi using scratch or some other technology. Investigate novel gaming and associated technologies for the Raspberry Pi.
http://www.themagpi.com/issue/issue-11/article/minecraft-pi-edition/

8. Voice control

Investigate voice control and build a demonstration application on the Raspberry Pi using Jasper http://jasperproject.github.io/
9. Custom Operating System Kernel (advanced)

Investigate operating system kernels and build your own kernel for the Raspberry Pi.
http://elinux.org/RPi_Kernel_Compilation

10. Email notifier

Build a system to detect emails and other events using some LEDs and switches: https://learn.adafruit.com/raspberry-pi-e-mail-notifier-using-leds

11. Kali Linux: security penetration testing

Kali Linux, www.kali.org/, is a special distribution of Linux for security penetration testing. Investigate kali Linux and its specialised security testing tools. Please do not do anything illegal. For example you could look at man in the middle attacks

http://jeffq.com/blog/setting-up-a-man-in-the-middle-device-with-raspberry-pi-part-1/
Raspberry Pi Kali Linux distribution is available here:

https://www.offensive-security.com/kali-linux-vmware-arm-image-download/

Other interesting links for projects

www.themagpi.com

http://www.lifehacker.com.au/tags/raspberry-pi/

http://readwrite.com/2014/01/21/raspberry-pi-great-projects

http://www.cnet.com/how-to/25-fun-things-to-do-with-a-raspberry-pi/

https://learn.adafruit.com/category/raspberry-pi

http://www.instructables.com/id/Raspberry-Pi-Projects/

http://makezine.com/2013/04/14/47-raspberry-pi-projects-to-inspire-your-next-build/