CIS 4930 - Senior Project

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We placed second in the competition! This was definitely a once-in-a-lifetime experience!

For Senior Project, I was part of a team for the Windows Embedded Student ChallengE 2006 competition.

Our idea for this project was to develop an "intelligent scarecrow" called the Erebus Scarecrow. The system is designed to protect ponds at a fish farm from bird predators that can cost farmers thousands of dollars in losses. The Erebus Scarecrow helps the environment by introducing an effective non-lethal method of pest deterrence to protect the birds and to prevent the spread of disease and contamination of the raised fish.

As a requirement for the Windows Challenge, our environment of development was Windows CE 5.0. We were provided an eBox II with Windows CE and tools to develop for it after being accepted as one of the top 200 teams worldwide. I was in charge of everything Windows CE related, from creating the custom operating system image with Platform Builder 5.0 to deploying and debugging our application with Visual Studio 2005.

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