Solar Powered Desalination Unit
Water scarcity is quite a large problem lets try to tackle this by taking unpotable salty water and distill it into potable drinking water.
EEPROM Programmer
Making an EEPROM programmer would allow me to simplify many logic circuits as I can program EEPROMs to hold a specific “code-block” of a circuit.
Cantilever 3D Printer v1
3D printers are cool! Let’s make a 3D printer to learn more about control systems and mechanical design. Let’s also keep it affordable but still accurate.
Deployable Modular Water Catcher
Water scarcity is quite a large problem lets try to tackle this by catching water from low-lying clouds in arid mountain regions.
Various 555 IC Based Clocks
Clock circuits are quite useful especially for making breadboard computers as it allows us to run the fetch-decode-execute cycle without having to manually step the cycle.
Website Deployment
Let’s make a website to organize all my stuffs into one place. Let’s also make the website easy to read and pleasant to look at.
General Purpose Control Box
Ever since the 3D printer was finished we were stuck with a mess of wires, let’s make a housing for all the electronics. Making it general purpose would allow me to use the electronics easily for other projects too.
Digital Logic Simulator
Making a general purpose breadboard computer would be very cool, but we first need a way to design the computer to prevent unessasary pain. A properly done program would allow me to use it for electronic projects in the future too.
Website Home Page Graphics
Creating some cool-looking graphics for the website’s homepage would make the page a lot less boring. Let’s also learn how to program ray-traced graphics while we are here too.
Analog Gauge-Based Task Manager
Let’s make a Analog task manager inspired that allows us to display the CPU core loads, CPU core temperatures, CPU power consumption, GPU load, GPU temperature, GPU power consumption, and memory usage. We could also make modular blocks that can form a larger display, perhaps using unconventional 6.35mm headphone jacks for communication between blocks might be cool.
Custom 16-bit Breadboard Computer
Let’s use the digital logic simulator to build a 16-bit custom computer with a 32-bit address bus using 7000 series of ICs on a breadboard, let’s also first run the design in the my digital logic simulator to ensure that it works correctly before building it. Let’s also try to keep complexity low by cheating and using dedicated memory ICs rather than building our own memory from scratch.
Electric Car for Race Competition
Okay so there’s this electric car competition, our school has an electric car. Let’s improve the design to make it vastly superior to other racecars, I have limited time to complete this so lets blitz it and hope for the best. This is a team project!
DIY Satellite Phone + Network Monitor
Let’s first make a general case for my phone so that I can tinker and create different devices for special use cases. Let’s then try to create a DIY satellite phone, walkie talkie, radio, and network signal reader as the first special use case for the general frame.
Server Hoster and Scheduler
Port forwarding although very safe today with NAT boxes, etc. I still find it a bit annoying. To run any server you have to keep your machine on, baby sit it, etc. So what if we used a free VPS and a web scraper to run any type of game, web, sim server possible? We need a script to do that.