I would suggest a solar tracker that connects to a computer over the serial
port to adjust settings, read daily usage statistics (sun hours, Wh produced
average collector temperature etc)
Ideally the tracker would also keep time and in case of cloud cover keep
tracking as if it was on the last day where there was still perfect sun

I am working on something similar in Sourceboost C
But I'm not a computer mayor so I don't know how long it'll take if I don't
find some true hackers to join the project!

On 5/11/07, Sami Barakat <furiousdog@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi,
> This is my first post here. I've enjoyed reading a lot of the
> discussions here and quite like this place. I was wondering if anyone
> had any advice on a third year project that I will be starting in
> September for my BSc Computer Systems Engineering degree at the
> University of East Anglia in the UK. They gave out a list of projects
> for the students but nearly all of them were not applicable to my
> degree, they were mostly software programming for graphics, sound or
> image. I was wanted to do something that involved hardware as well as
> software.
> If anyone has any ideas for a project that would interact with a
> computer using PICs, so that there is a hardware element as well as
> software. I have only recently started using PICs and my knowledge of
> them isn't that great but I would like to improve on this.
>
> Thanks in advance
> Sami
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