Raspberry Pi Pico Lecture 18 (2025): Brain-dumping project ideas

0:00 – Administrivia
2:00 – Lecture plan
4:45 – Diffusion limited aggregation
6:40 – Particle system simulations
8:50 – Diffusion reaction systems
11:45 – Mandelbrot set
16:30 – Julia sets
18:00 – Game of Life
21:00 – Wireworld
22:00 – Diamond-square algorithm
23:40 – L-systems
25:20 – Barnsley Fern
27:20 – Dragon curve
28:00 – Hilbert curves and sight to sound
30:30 – Sensory augmentation
35:30 – Sensory substitution
36:10 – Fourier drawing, and drawing with sound
40:00 – Oscilloscope as a display
42:50 – Doom
43:10 – Engineering projects for learning about history, e.g. Enigma
44:45 – Apollo guidance computer
45:05 – Gravity simulation
45:25 – Drawing pictures with spectrograms
46:10 – Bootloaders
47:15 – Sound localization
47:45 – Head transfer functions
49:50 – Instrument synthesis
50:30 – Speech vocoders
51:15 – Baby toys
51:40 – Video games
52:30 – Zelda and PacMan
54:10 – How to come up with an idea

Spring, 2025 lectures from ECE 4760 (Digital Systems Design Using Microcontroller) at Cornell University.

Course site: https://ece4760.github.io
Hunter’s site: https://vanhunteradams.com