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Gallery  >  iCODE Summer 2009

Students in Machine Science's NSF-funded iCODE program built their own GPS devices, MP3 music players, wireless text-messaging devices, and wireless robot controllers at a two-week summer camp earlier this month the UMass Boston campus. Using a new modular development system, students built each device and wrote C code to create customized user interfaces. The GPS devices displayed real-time latitude and longitude data, while the MP3 players featured inputs for file selection, play and pause, fast forward and reverse, and volume adjustment. The wireless projects featured radio frequency transceivers with a range of several hundred meters. In addition to their project work, students spent an afternoon geocaching at the Blue Hills Reservation, and went on a boat cruise of Boston Harbor. Over the two-week period, participants also presented their projects to campers at UMass Boston's Transportation Institute, and had an information session with a representative from the university's admissions office. Many thanks to Deborah Boisvert and her staff at the BATEC program for their help with the camp.

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