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Today the final year MEng (5th year university) students had a tradeshow, to show off some of their project work for the past year. I did this myself last year, so I’m quite keen in what they have been up to.

It’s always a good time and as expected sweets and drink were available. Not that it was the only reason I went, of course.

First, we have my favourite project of the day, Helicopter

Unfortunately, they were being safety conscious and decided not to hae the 4 rotors, one on each arm on. The demonstration video showed it flying around and avoiding hitting object automatically, they could even control it via text message. I wish I could have played around with it

Secondly, satellite tracking

Now, doesn’t that look cool! It’s an ongoing project so not 100% complete but their objective is to track and communicate with satellites as they fly overhead (on top of Glasgow) They’re eventually planning to have it installed on the roof of the building

The last two weren’t exactly within my interests per se but I’ll put them up for diversity

It’s a telemetry acquisition device for a car, namely Formula Student and they did an interesting comparison with a commercial system which showed that it was more feature packed for less than half the price. Maybe it’ll be commercialised

Lastly, I never really got a good look at this one, but was impressed by the size of the flywheel

There were a few other good project, one done by the students who were one year below me in the same course showing an automated security camera that noticed when objects are removed or moved or put into the frame and highlighting with a red border. Not got a good shot of that though

That’s all folks! A good day, with Irn-Bru and Quality Street choc snacks