- Bonjour Paris
This year’s Microsoft Imagine Cup Worldwide Final has taken place in Paris, France. I was representing United States, leading a team of three to participate in the Software Design category, the biggest and possibly toughest category. I had been to Paris three time in my life before. But this trip still made me really excited. [...]
- Reactivity – Software Technical Details
I intend to use this post to document some of the things that I’ve done in the Reactivity project, that I am proud of and that I think would be cool to share and reused in the future. Reactivity is open source, at least for the part I wrote. Please refer to this frozen subversion [...]
- Reactivity – Introduction
In the past six months, I’ve devoted a lot of time making Reactivity. Since the competition is over for me now, I can talk about the details about Reactivity, things that I am proud of and the process of making it happen. What is Reactivity? Reactivity started as an idea to do home automation. I’ve [...]
- Imagine Cup 2008 Software Design U.S. Final Winner
We, as team Sparx from Rochester Institute of Technology, have just come back from an exciting trip in Los Angeles, where the Microsoft Imagine Cup 2008 Software Design U.S. National Final took place. And guess what, we’ve won the American Final, $12,000 grand prize and will be representing U.S. in the World Final in this [...]
- Imagine Cup 2008 Advanced to Semi-Final and National Final
Good news! Both our projects have advanced to the next round. Our balloon project, the Environmental Companion Cube has recently advanced to the Microsoft Imagine Cup 2008 Semi-Final. We will be receiving an eBox 4300 as a development platform soon. On the other hand, our sensor network project advanced to Microsoft Image Cup 2008 United [...]
- Imagine Cup 2008 Embedded Development Project Environmental Companion Cube
Sustaining the Environment at a 50km altitude This year, Microsoft is calling on young programmers, artists and technologists around the world to “imagine a world where technology enables a sustainable environment.” In response to that mission, we are proud to present a confined air pollution research system. Utilizing a high altitude balloon design as well [...]
- Imagine Cup 2008 Software Design Project Reactivity
The aim of the Reactivity sensor network is to provide enterprise and city-level networking of sensor and device control systems. Take a deep breath. The air you just inhaled might contain trace amounts of nitrogen oxides, sulfur oxides, suspended particulate matter, volatile organic compounds, ozone, radioactive radon, and other toxic substances. According to the World [...]
- Imagine Cup 2007 World Final – Day 3
Haven’t got a chance for a long time to finish this series of Imagine Cup 2007 story. I’ve been pretty busy ever since the class began in September. But anyway, here is the reset of the story: August 8th, 2007. Since we had already known that we lost, the rest of the journey became quite [...]
