[sdiy] Teaching our Senior Design class this Fall

[Aaron Lanterman]

Howdy gang,

I'm signed up to run a section of our Senior Design class this Fall.  
This will be my first time doing Senior Design. The class splits up  
into teams of 4 or 5 students, which then each try to design and build  
something interesting. The class has a lot of structure, with various  
proposals and progress reports that are graded both by me and our  
staff that teaches technical writing.

Guess what my section will be doing. ;)

The class will have students from a wide variety of backgrounds - a  
few will have taken my "Electronics for Music Synthesis" class, but  
not many. So I'll need to be sure to steer people towards projects  
that could be reasonably completed in a semester by teams that size.

My own main interest is in synthesizers - I'm thinking of a computer- 
controlled analog-signal-path sort, monophonic for simplicity - but  
alternative interfaces also tickle my fancy.

Anyway, if anyone has any wild suggestions for undergrads to tackle,  
let me know. ;)

- Aaron