Project examples

Interfacing a sensor to your chosen board (any combination of the following is good, a homework don’t need to contain every part, for example remote monitoring is not needed if you implement a graphical user interface)

• Using cheap sensor or sensors from ebay or other sorces
  • Utrasonic distance sensor
  • Temperature sensor
  • Infraled distance sensor
  • Humidity sensor
  • Ambient light sensor …
• Using a cheap actuator from ebay or other sources
  • Even LEDs can be used as actuator
  • DC motor controller
  • Sounder, or Buzzer …
• If your card has creating a graphical user interface to the sensor
• Giving a remote measurement ability to your sensor
  • Through UART
  • Through USB (CDC VCP)
  • Using some wireless extension module
• Implementing a monitoring, or control software on desktop PC
  • Any language can be used
  • Google protocol buffer can be used as command interface

Other examples

• USB mouse simulator, using the accelerometer, and touch screen of the development board
• FreeRTOS thread monitor using the FreeRTOS’s trace macros, and an external monitor program communicating through UART
• CoreMark benchmark result studying, how the result depend on certain conditions, like ARM Cortex core M0 / M3 / M4 etc, clock speed, Flash accelerator state etc.

Generally, any other interesting idea, that need some development in an ARM Cortex M environment