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-====== Currently offered Projects, Fall 2012 (updated September 5, 2012)  ======
+====== Available Projects  ======
-(Listed in order received.)
+Currently offered Projects, Summer 2013
+(some projects still subject to confirmation)
+====== 3D Drawing System with Leap Motion finger tracker ======
+**Supervisor**: Wolfgang Stuerzlinger
+**Required Background**: 3D computer graphics, C/C++ coding
+The Leap Motion, leapmotion.com, is a new device that lets users control a computer with their fingers. This project creates a new 3D drawing system that enables users to quickly generate 3D solids.
+====== 3D Drawing System with 3Gear gesture tracker ======
+**Supervisor**: Wolfgang Stuerzlinger
+**Required Background**: 3D computer graphics, C/C++ coding
+The 3Gear system, threegear.com, lets users control a computer with their hands and fingers. This project creates a new 3D drawing system that enables users to quickly generate and modify 3D solids.
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-====== YUsend Thermal Vacuum (TVAC) Test Manager ======
-**Supervisor**: Rob Allison (co-supervised with Hugh Chesser, Space Engineering)
-**Required Background**: General CSE408x prerequisites, familiarity with C++ and Windows software tools
-**Description** The YUsend (York University Space Engineering Nanosatellite Demonstration) Lab has procured a Windows XP-based industrial computer and temperature acquisition card (as well as other hardware) for performing TVAC testing of nanosatellites in the CSIL Lab (PSE 003). A “TVAC Test Manager” application written using LabView's G programming language will oversee the acquisition of temperatures (thermal test outputs) and control of IR lamps (thermal test inputs) during the rather long periods (4 or more days, 24 hours a day) of a TVAC test.
-Specific tasks include: 1. Writing temperature acquisition card (OMEGA Engineering CIO-DAS-Temp) drivers for LabView - should be written in Visual C++ or similar and compiled into SubVI format. 2. Write LabView VI's (“Virtual Instrument”) to perform (a) Test set-up activities - checkout of sensor and lamps, assigning neumonics to temperature sensors, setting of alarm conditions for sensors and lamps (b) Acquire and monitor temperature data and control lamp voltage during test, raise operator alarms for temperature or IR lamp anomalous conditions as required © Store temperature and control data for subsequent analysis and reporting. 3. (Optional) Interface the Test Manager with an orbital simulation tool which would be used to compute IR lamp inputs based on a simulation of the nanosatellite's orbital position and attitude (eg - in the sun, lamps on, in eclipse lamps off). The simulation tool is a package called Satellite Toolkit (STK) which has an TCP/IP-based API.