Simulation of real aircraft accidents/crashes/disasters

Use an available flight simulator to simulate real aircraft accidents. Example: TK 1951 crash in Shiphol / Amsterdam. To simulate this case, you need to be able to have a auto-throttle model that gets AGL altitude data from aircraft altitude radar. Then you have to make the radar fail so that it shows -8 ft while the aircraft is at 2000 ft. And finally the auto throttle model should put the engines into retard mode and decrease the speed to stall values which in turn results in the crash of aircraft short of the runway (controlled flight into terrain).

IP change notifier

I have an IP camera to monitor my babysitter. Since my IP changes everytime my modem restarts (usually due to cut in electricity), I need to update the ip link when accessing the camera from outside of home.

Write an app that stores the current IP and checks the IP twice a day and sends an email to me whenever the IP has changed.

Üniversite bölüm rehberi

webapp olacak. Kullanıcı puanını girecek, app geçen yılki taban puanlardan girilen puana yakın olanlarını gösterek. Taban puan listesini ÖSYM'den alacak.

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Write a webbapp that can fetch more than the 32 pics limit on picasa featured image search

Nöbetçi Eczaneler on Google Maps

Nöbetçi eczane listesini google maps üzerinde göster.

For ideas (parsing a website etc.), see a website developed using Udacity's CS 253 course, KickSaver:

The backend is written in Python using the Google App Engine webapp2 framework. It uses BeautifulSoup to parse Kickstarter projects, and Tweepy to publish endangered projects to Twitter a few times each day. The frontend uses jQuery for asynchronous updates and CSS styles from Twitter Bootstrap.

See Udacity Showcase for more projects. A project using google maps api: Caravan Park Advisor

Update 28.01.2013: alpha version is live on appspot. Doesn't do much (just picks the first pharmacy from http://eos.aeo.org.tr/PublicSayfalar/NobetAra.aspx ) but I learned the following:
* Watched all unit of udacity's Web Development Course. Highly recommended...
* Using python to generate dynamic web pages
* Google app engine
* Google static maps (got the idea from Unit 5, starting with Geolocation)

8 DIY Projects

8 Easy DIY Projects We Wish We’d Thought Up

Self-Watering Plant (with Arduino)

Mute TV or change channel during adverts

Does the TV signal have a special code for commercials? Can we detect it?

Two alternatives:
1. (Easy) The TV volume jumps when adverts start. You can use that jump to identify a commercial started (see comment on Israeli paper below). False positive: An explosion in a movie.

2. (Hard) Write software that has a sound fingerprint database of the first couple of seconds of common commercials which it uses to send mute signals to tv to mute it for a typical advertisement duration.
* Catch probability > 90%
* Should be able to understand that a commercial started within 3 seconds
* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pattern_recognition
* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acoustic_fingerprint

Arduino based solution:  http://blog.makezine.com/2011/08/16/enough-already-the-arduino-solution-to-overexposed-celebs/

Israeli Students Patent Device That Mutes TV Ads, from the comments:

In Ads, the audio typically pegs the meter, ofting a clear starting point in the 'muting' process. The cadence of the track itself will doubtless offer additional 'clues,' ie.: music/voice ratio, s/n ratio.

The processor must sample your (active) program material periodically, and record a set of average levels. These are then compared to the (new) offending audio track. When the original track returns, it auto restores the signal. This process is so simple that it could easily be incorporated into every new digital TV.