I'll be entering my final year of engineering in September and I need an idea for a capstone project. We'll have a team of 3-5 smart, hard-working people and around 6 months to complete it. I would like to tap into the wealth of knowledge of HN readers and hopefully find a suitable idea.<p>Some thoughts I have so far:<p>1. Whatever the project is, it has to be something we'd be able to quickly iterate on (build-test-evaluate)<p>2. If there are types of sensors that are just now getting increasingly cheaper, we could probably use them (e.g. IMUs got cheaper when smartphones became popular). Same goes for types of data (e.g. high-res geospatial/satellite imagery).<p>3. High-impact projects revolving around energy, clean water access, food production, resource utilization and other humanity-level problems would be awesome. However, making something just for the sake of cool tech would work too.<p>Please feel free to share any thoughts/ideas you might have.
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did a quick google search and came up with this -> <a href="http://www.electronicshub.org/robotics-projects-ideas/" rel="nofollow">http://www.electronicshub.org/robotics-projects-ideas/</a> any one of these look interesting and could be worked through with your advisor(s) to make it more your own