baseplate.org serves as a rallying point for projects Computing students explore at Allegheny College. You could say it serves as a research group homepage for students working with Prof. Matthew Jadud, but that might be saying a bit much.
You can explore by Project or by the People involved.
Current Projects
We have four awesome projects running at the moment.
Operation: Stick Figure Army
Sara Doan '11 and Stephanie Cost '11 are engaged in Operation: Stick Figure Army, a project that will provide tools to support the printing of 2D images in 3D for use by blind students using low-cost 3D printing tools like the Cupcake CNC. Along the way, they intend to produce an army of stick figures... <insert evil laugh here>
[ Project Weblog ]
Pulses in the Plumbing
Radu Creanga '11 is digging into the Arduino from the processor up. He will be adding PWM (Pulse Width Modulation) support to the Plumbing, a library for the Transterpreter that supports parallel programming on this small, low-cost embedded platform. PWM will let us do all kinds of cool stuff, like drive motors and fade LEDs.
[ Project Weblog ]
Functional Art and Computing
Will Plaut '10 is is engaged in his Senior Comprehensive at Allegheny, and is exploring "functional jewelry" using wrapped wire and the Arduino.
[ Project Blurb ]
Projects Needing Students
Allegheny's RepStrap
Maja Sweeny '09 led our RepStrap build, and will hopefully be visiting us this summer to play with it and print some really cool stuff. We are currently in need a student who wants to continue where Maja left off and help make the printer do amazing things. (Requirements: patience and a willingness to learn new things.)
[ Project Blurb ] [ Weblog ] [ Photo Gallery ]
Studying Novice Programmers
Currently we're looking for students interested in the intersection of Psychology, Education, and Computer Science who want to dig into the behavior of novice programmers.
[ Work-to-date ]
Previous Projects
Storytelling with Kodu
Drew Pirrone-Brusse '11 is interested in non-linear episodic storytelling in the context of video games. This semester, he will be working working with Scratch and Kodu to evaluate their utility as rich or otherwise interactive storyboarding tools for use in the context of Communication Arts.
[ Project Weblog ]
