student projects - examples
Click on the following articles to review a cross section of projects undertaken by various schools, with students ranging from years 9 through to 11. These projects generally took one semester to take them from Concept to Creation!
Remote Control Car with Wireless Camcorder Linkup
Can you imagine the countless uses of a remote controlled unmanned vehicle, which also has a wireless video linkup? It could be used to assist victims in natural disasters or mining accidents. It could also be used to explore areas which are too dangerous for humans to enter; possibly because of toxic fumes or extreme heat. Well this group decided to construct a remote control car that could do just that!
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Auto-Fish Feeder
This group agreed that a benefit of electronic engineering is the ability to create gadgets that could carry out certain tasks for you. From this the group decided to design and build an Automatic Fish Feeder. It could be programmed to dispense the exact amount of food at the right times during each day.
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Wireless Object Locator
"Where did I put my car keys?" is a question that you must have heard many times in your life! How often have you put something down and then spent ages looking for it? Well, this group decided to invent a gadget that would end this frustration!
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Speech Generator for Autistic Children
The students identified a truly community driven project; a device that would give a voice to autistic people! Autism is a neurological disorder that affects a person's verbal communication capability
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Disco Kicks
This group were looking for a project that would be fun to make and fun to use. What a way to learn about new technologies! They eventually agreed on creating two pairs of "Dancing Shoes," which would have an array of Light Emitting Diodes (LED's) fitted around its base. These would be used to gauge the wearer's dancing skills! By having two pairs of shoes, competitions could be held between two dancers.
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Sight-Stick for the Blind
This group of students believed that they could develop a product that may assist the vision impaired. They believed that the white stick they used to navigate with provided a very limited range of detection as it was limited to sensing obstacles the length of the stick away.
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Mobile Phone Video Surveillance
Take a mobile phone, build some intelligent electronics around it and presto, you have your own Remote Video Surveillance System!
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Intelligent Water Management System
Imagine if your plants could call you when they actually needed watering? This would save you time and save the country a lot of water. Well, this project was designed to achieve just that… and a lot more!
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Future Australians Solar Power 240
Save money and the planet, with an amazing solar powered home lighting system!
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