Note: There are a number of projects that are quite nice but not photogenic (for example, playing music on a speaker, Morse code generator, Multi-precision match calculation engine). The below are representative of the more hardware-oriented projects. Pure software projects or projects that just use the provided I/O are also fine for full course credit and "cool project" bragging rights.
Vector Image Display via Laser Projector / Shane Smith & Elon Bauer


Pong / Dale Best & Connor Walsh

LED Etch-A-Sketch / David Campbell & Jonathan Leung

Use two potentiometers to draw designs on an LED grid (push button to leave blank segments)
Thermostatic Fan Control / Braden Kell & Robert von Stange

Snake Game / Naman Seth & Ji Hye Lee

RTOS with Mutex / Terence An & Tom Chittenden

Music Player / Edward Nolan & Akash Sethi

Color-Based Whack-A-Mole / Symone Lessington & Jacob Nelson


IR-Triggered Counter / James Sakai & Peter McHale

Morse Code to ASCII Interpeter / Jianxin Yu & Joanne Tse

Ipod Remote Serial Control
