Senior Project
OK, call me over-ambitious, but since watching the Senior Design/Projects for the Engineering department... I'm taking ideas as to possible ones for me to do.

My reasoning is watching my brother do his, and watching other Seniors present their ideas across the Engineering Department and Computer Department. There were a few common traits:
---> halfway done. Someone did all of their part, no other part was done
---> The project was only completed through the concept phase with no actual physical test
---> Or the physical test was done, but only in one environmental condition (pristine/most readily available)
---> No exploratory branch of project into other uses or environmental...

Senior Project
OK, call me over-ambitious, but since watching the Senior Design/Projects for the Engineering department... I'm taking ideas as to possible ones for me to do.

My reasoning is watching my brother do his, and watching other Seniors present their ideas across the Engineering Department and Computer Department. There were a few common traits:
---> halfway done. Someone did all of their part, no other part was done
---> The project was only completed through the concept phase with no actual physical test
---> Or the physical test was done, but only in one environmental condition (pristine/most readily available)
---> No exploratory branch of project into other uses or environmental conditions. Let me explain this one. One project was a self-mapping robot probe. It was only used to map the inside of a building, but didn't allow for a "discovery" of a door - it made the door into a wall.
---> Design was exclusively for one object/resource/purpose. Let me explain this one too. My brother designed his [self-tuning device] for exclusively an acoustic guitar, and didn't plan his to work on an electric guitar. One project designed a [self-maintaining] greenhouse for only peppers, not tomatoes or orchids. (all three plants need heat in different places and water delivered different ways).

Yes I'm only a Sophomore, but I don't want to be like everyone else and having one of these issues (or another common one). Thus I'm wanting to start mine now. So fire ideas away!

Requirements:
* Electrical Engineering in nature (can branch off into Mechanical Engineering or Computer Sciences)
* under a budget of $250 USD, with the exception of a small robot used for Microprocessors course (I don't know which one it is, but it costs about $300 and is a simple laser & programming, 2 wheeled thing, that runs on 2 AA batteries )