1st Year Raspberry Pi projects featured on hackaday.com and raspberrypi.org

During the summer term our first year undergraduates undertook ambitious group projects to develop 'bare metal' applications for the Raspberry Pi.

Following on from last year's sucessess the students outdid themselves  with a variety of amazing extensions.  There were many great projects, from Simon-Says games, LED timers, singing floppy disk drives, mini-compilers and everything in-between.

Particularly exciting was a programmable 3-D LED cube, by Alan Han,
Louis Chan, Adam Gestwa and Anton Alenov

We also saw two stunning implementations of graphical games written
entirely in ARM11 assembly.

Firstly a networked, multiplayer implementation of Tetris by Han Qiao, Piotr Chabierski, Michal Sienkiewicz and Utsav Tiwary:

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hTqKRdcKZ9k

Secondly a very, very impressive 3D implementation of "PiFox" (a homage to StarFox on the SNES) by Nandor Licker, Ilija Radosavovic, David Avedissian and Nic Prettejohn:

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-5n9IxSQH1M

Both of these games have also been featured on hackaday.com

http://hackaday.com/2014/06/23/programming-pi-games-with-bare-metal-assembl[..]

http://hackaday.com/2014/06/29/tetris-duel-with-the-raspberry-pi/

and PiFox has also been featured on the front-page of raspberrypi.org:

http://www.raspberrypi.org/pifox-bare-metal-arm-assembly-language-star-fox/[..]

There were many other great projects, several of which you'll hopefully
be able to spot as demos at open days and interview days.  Our first
year students continue to amaze us each year, and we're really excited
to see what they go on to do as they continue here at  Imperial!