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Shoutboard : A New Locative Social Network, Evan Havlisch, Ketan Kumar, Tovin Thomas
Shoutboard : A New Locative Social Network, Evan Havlisch, Ketan Kumar, Tovin Thomas
Computer Science and Engineering Senior Theses
This paper will illustrate the need for a better location based social network that utilizes the latest smartphone features. Over the course of this project, we created ShoutBoard. ShoutBoard is a way for people to share messages with the people geographically close by. We accomplish this by creating a system with a client-server architecture. The user will use the iPhone app or the website to interact with our server. The server will fetch messages that other users have posted and return them to the client. Within this document, we describe in detail the problem we wish to solve, the current …
Project Omoverhi : Low-Cost, Neonatal Incubator, Richard Fong, Guillermo Gallardo, William Jeffery, Danny Maeda, Gabriel Romero
Project Omoverhi : Low-Cost, Neonatal Incubator, Richard Fong, Guillermo Gallardo, William Jeffery, Danny Maeda, Gabriel Romero
Interdisciplinary Design Senior Theses
Project Omoverhi, since its beginning in 2010-2011, has been focused on creating an incubator that has the capability of operating completely off grid. This year the project has been focused on redesigning the original system to reduce the cost to approximately $1000. In addition to this we have designed and implemented a control system that enables the user to set a desired temperature which can be maintained to within 1 degree Celsius. Before the project is able to be completed further work must be done. The thermal storage system that was initially proposed by the original team still needs to …
Kosmos : A Virtual 3-D Universe, John Judnich
Kosmos : A Virtual 3-D Universe, John Judnich
Computer Science and Engineering Senior Theses
Kosmos is an application enabling interactive visualization of a fictional 3D universe. It offers users the opportunity to explore and experience an aesthetically pleasing virtual environment complete with billions of high-resolution planets and stars. Kosmos integrates several novel 3D rendering techniques in terrain rendering, large-scale particle systems, etc. to make this level of graphical realism and scale possible. The efficiency of the algorithms developed for this project enables average hardware (such as almost any modern laptop) to run Kosmos smoothly. Moreover, through the use of the recent WebGL standard, Kosmos may be viewed online in any modern web browser on …
The Blue Plug : A Power Consumption Regulation System, Loquen Jones, Sahil Verma
The Blue Plug : A Power Consumption Regulation System, Loquen Jones, Sahil Verma
Computer Science and Engineering Senior Theses
Our goal is to develop a system that reduces peak grid loads by 60%, which saves consumers and businesses money as well as protecting the environment by eliminating the use of fast start up generators. We accomplish this by implementing Arduinos --which are versatile microcontrollers-- equipped with networking technology that allows communication between houses in a neighborhood. Through this communication, we can schedule when appliances are used to avoid everyone using their appliances at the same time and we can eliminate the need for such exorbitant energy usage during peak hours. Our work implements ongoing research that is looking into …
Eventify : An Android-Based Planning Application, Bryson Lam, Jeff Matsunaga, Matt Tu
Eventify : An Android-Based Planning Application, Bryson Lam, Jeff Matsunaga, Matt Tu
Computer Science and Engineering Senior Theses
One of the common problems with social networking is the ability to plan out an event. Many applications available today simply provide for a broad or narrow audience of invitees. These tools also have the additional problem of being flooded with spam, and content with little interest to its users. To remedy this issue, we devised a new tool, Eventify. Eventify is an Android based application that potentially will make creating events and bringing groups of people together more feasible. We built this application with two main design constraints in mind: The application runs solely via text messaging, without a …
Muve : A Web Tool To Digitize Books, Elysia Chu, Victoria Hall, Maya Hough, Urvashi Urvashi
Muve : A Web Tool To Digitize Books, Elysia Chu, Victoria Hall, Maya Hough, Urvashi Urvashi
Computer Science and Engineering Senior Theses
Many Santa Clara University students have the luxury of having access to devices such as iPads and eBook readers which support many applications that make our lives easier. The numerous ways to read digital books today has significantly lowered the cost of gaining access to educational material. However, in rural developing communities in countries like India, this is not the case. Currently in India, people in some developing communities have basic mobile phones called feature phones which can perform basic functionalities such as texting, calling, and browsing the web. Feature phones are affordable and very popular in developing communities. There …
Mylife, Lauren Furumoto, Will Truettner
Mylife, Lauren Furumoto, Will Truettner
Computer Science and Engineering Senior Theses
As we continue to utilize the web to manage organizations and institutions such as Santa Clara University Law School, we are challenged with the problem of keeping all of the different services in concise, cohesive interfaces. myLife attempts to consolidate currently scattered services relevant to SCU Law students and faculty into one dashboard for easy access and utilization. myLife requires only one set of credentials and displays the relevant mail, news, events, and course information for a given user on one userfriendly page.