Howdy amigos!!
Long time, no see. Well, the trio were busy with this Imagine Cup thingy, college tests, Cricket World Cup and laziness induced hypersomnia in the hours that remained. So finally one of them finds some time to inform you people about my progress.
The good news - I made it to the National Finals of Microsoft Imagine Cup Embedded Development Category. One of the 7 national finalists selected from India. You can check out the results here (The team called : BITSGians).
In the second round, we were required to submit a Project Overview Report and a 5 minute video presentation of the system. The report incorporated an executive summary and a situational analysis consisting of -
- Problem Analysis
- Project Analysis
- User Experience
- Market Analysis
- Cost Analysis
- Technical Architecture
- Overall Embedded System Architecture
- Hardware Components
- Data Flow
- Data Processing
- Testing Procedures
- Performance Analysis
- Project Status
(This list was specified by Microsoft).
As for the video part, we were a bit confused in the beginning about what exactly should the video be composed of or what is it that they want us to show in the video. Is it the actual working of the system? Or is it just a video presentation of the report we have prepared? Thankfully the live online meeting held with the coordinators of Embedded Development came to our rescue by clearing our doubts about the same. Also we went through the videos of some past winners and participants of Imagine Cup (These are available on YouTube and Imagine Cup website). And after analyzing those old videos, we chalked out a script and decided that our video would consist of -
- A short clip (from a real life situation) describing our problem statement (35-40 secs)
- The timeline, i.e., the work this team has been doing since last year (this includes only the work done before Imagine Cup) (10 - 15 secs)
- Components of the system developed for Imagine Cup (along with a demo of their functioning) (1 min 30 secs roughly)
- A video clip of the complete system in action. (1 min 30 secs - 2 mins).
The final video thus made was roughly 4 mins 30 secs long. I will upload it on YouTube shortly.
I want to thank some people without whose help, the trio could not have completed the system, simulation and video in time. Adarsh NB for helping out with little glitches in the Bing Maps GPS coordinates generator. Hasim Kalolwala for helping us with the simulation and Vemula Neelesh for his mammoth contribution in the making of the video. Thanks a lot. :)
The national finals are in Gurgaon on 26th and 27th of April. As the team gears up for the finals, stay tuned (I would especially recommend Embedded systems enthusiasts to follow us) to know more about me. To know more about Windows CE, development of Embedded applications on Windows CE, the problems faced during the development and how did they troubleshoot and debug it.
Adios amigos !!
Long time, no see. Well, the trio were busy with this Imagine Cup thingy, college tests, Cricket World Cup and laziness induced hypersomnia in the hours that remained. So finally one of them finds some time to inform you people about my progress.
The good news - I made it to the National Finals of Microsoft Imagine Cup Embedded Development Category. One of the 7 national finalists selected from India. You can check out the results here (The team called : BITSGians).
In the second round, we were required to submit a Project Overview Report and a 5 minute video presentation of the system. The report incorporated an executive summary and a situational analysis consisting of -
- Problem Analysis
- Project Analysis
- User Experience
- Market Analysis
- Cost Analysis
- Technical Architecture
- Overall Embedded System Architecture
- Hardware Components
- Data Flow
- Data Processing
- Testing Procedures
- Performance Analysis
- Project Status
(This list was specified by Microsoft).
As for the video part, we were a bit confused in the beginning about what exactly should the video be composed of or what is it that they want us to show in the video. Is it the actual working of the system? Or is it just a video presentation of the report we have prepared? Thankfully the live online meeting held with the coordinators of Embedded Development came to our rescue by clearing our doubts about the same. Also we went through the videos of some past winners and participants of Imagine Cup (These are available on YouTube and Imagine Cup website). And after analyzing those old videos, we chalked out a script and decided that our video would consist of -
- A short clip (from a real life situation) describing our problem statement (35-40 secs)
- The timeline, i.e., the work this team has been doing since last year (this includes only the work done before Imagine Cup) (10 - 15 secs)
- Components of the system developed for Imagine Cup (along with a demo of their functioning) (1 min 30 secs roughly)
- A video clip of the complete system in action. (1 min 30 secs - 2 mins).
The final video thus made was roughly 4 mins 30 secs long. I will upload it on YouTube shortly.
I want to thank some people without whose help, the trio could not have completed the system, simulation and video in time. Adarsh NB for helping out with little glitches in the Bing Maps GPS coordinates generator. Hasim Kalolwala for helping us with the simulation and Vemula Neelesh for his mammoth contribution in the making of the video. Thanks a lot. :)
The national finals are in Gurgaon on 26th and 27th of April. As the team gears up for the finals, stay tuned (I would especially recommend Embedded systems enthusiasts to follow us) to know more about me. To know more about Windows CE, development of Embedded applications on Windows CE, the problems faced during the development and how did they troubleshoot and debug it.
Adios amigos !!
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