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    What was your final year college/university project?

    I was wondering what people did for their final year projects at college/university? I guess it would provide an interesting insight into how technology has moved on over the years and how computing-related courses have changed.

    Just state the course name, the year you did your final year project and a one-paragraph decsription of what you did, problems you had to overcome and technology involved.

    To get the ball rolling:

    Course: Computer Science BSc

    Date: 1986

    Project: 3D Kitchen Designer

    Description: Two of us worked together on BBC Model B computers to create a 3D Kitchen Designer. We attached an A4 graphics tablet to it (the type with a pen-shaped stylus) and wrote the driver to make it work. We also wrote some speech synthesis software so it could talk to you! The design part was based on our graphics course using 3D wire-frame graphics. You set out the dimensions of your kitchen and, using the graphics tablet, picked standard shaped floor and wall units and placed them into the wire-frame display of the kitchen. You could then rotate the kitchen on a 3D axis and 'walk' into it.

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    Didn't quite get it working on the web from a stand alone mobile device (my project concentrated on HTML for PC browsers and WAP for mobile devices) due to the restrictions hosting it from uni... but it all does work! The timetable application was just to give it some scope, but the idea is one data store of information that can be used on many devices.
    It recognises WAP emulators as WAP markup and browsers (including firefox and opera) as HTML markup. Gonna carry on developing it to give it management and security functionalities (GUI to add/take away devices)
    I had a pretty bad year with illnesses and general motivation issues, but I got a 2:1 for it, so I was happy.

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    Course: Electrical Engineering, BSc.
    Year: 2003
    Title: Linearization of a Differnetial Amplifer using the 'Self-Linearization' Technique.

    My project was based on the 'well-known' (oh well, it's not that known) method of 'self-linearization' in order to improve the linearization of a differential amplifer based on bipolar transistors by cancelling its Harmonic and Intermodulation distortions.
    By implementing the Differential Amplifer with diodes (two diodes for each transistor, according to the Ebers-Moll Equation) it is possible to develop the output voltage equations of the amplifer according to Taylor Series and then, by adding a linear component (i.e. resistor) in the Transistor Emitters, to cancel its Harmonic (2nd order) and 3rd order intermodulation distorations, and thus, increase the amplifier's linearity.

    Sounds complex? Believe me, IT IS!!!
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    Reason: one of my friends at Uni (he was a year ahead) said "the project has grown men in tears". I didn't fancy crying at Uni so never went back!

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    Course: Computer Science BSc.

    Graduated: 1996

    Project: DOS application written in C/C++/Assembler to take the ray-tracing source files for PoV-Ray (shareware ray tracing program) and render instantly in 3D polygons for a "preview" and to have the ability to edit the image displayed and save the file back.
    Designed to be a tool to speed up the design process of rendering complex images without having to wait an eternity between each render, great practice for playing with linked lists, memory management and file parsers/compilers as well as the 3D graphics engine.
    One of my flatmates did some pretty cool raycasting projects last year. I, being such a programming illiterate, was baffled.

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