Summer project ideas

Software project ideas for summer 2022:

1. Web Application:

1.1. [PHP] Create a WordPress plugin to rent expensive dresses. It should have a calendar for rent start-end dates. Payment should use iyzico sandbox. It should support vendor/product review.

1.2. Create a multi-vendor Shopify app, similar to and better than Multi Vendor Marketplace. Look at its negative reviews for inspiration, e.g. "looks very trashy and confusing", "error-free bulk data upload"

1.3. Leetcode clone for embedded software development: Exercises and unit tests, board simulators (timer, interrupt, peripheral sim (RAM, SSD, NIC) for driver writing exercises). Vision: Become the TopTal of embedded software development.

1.4. Clone Twitter (simplified LeetCode problem)

1.5. Build a Google Docs clone.

1.6. Build a Codility clone. Step 1: Online code compiler

1.7. Write a Chrome extension to create gif

2. Mobile app: 

2.1. Develop an Android application that gets video from a PC using the mobile hotspot on the phone:

2.2. Payment sharing/bill splitting between a group of friends

3. Automotive:

2.1. Write a simple 2D self driving car demo.

2.2. Collect acceleration data from an RC car, send it to the cloud, on the cloud backend identify road quality from acceleration data and show it on a web page.

2.3. Make openpilot work on CARLA.

4. Website development: Find an existing website that has performance issues, do performance profiling and write a faster  version of it.

5. Finance, cryptocurrency, cybersecurity: 

5.1. Write a Lightning Network clone

5.2. Develop an air gapped Bitcoin wallet.

5.3. Write a uTorrent clone (peer to peer distributed file sharing)

6. Gaming: 

6.1 Write a game that involves puzzle piece placement and path finding and runs in the browser.

6.2. Write a peer-to-peer real time multiplayer game that uses the lockstep protocol (see consensus).

6.3 Clone Just Dance Now. Convert it to use webcam to detect and rate your movement accuracy.

7. Music: Write an app that normalizes sound levels of tracks in a playlist so that the user does not have to fiddle with the volume setting.

8. Aerospace: 

8.1. Write a web app that lets the user change kinematic parameters of a simple aircraft and observe the effects on a 2D trajectory.

8.2. Write a web app that does a simplified 2D version of the moon landing, including orbital calculations.

9. Miscellaneous:

9.1. Improve GeoTools: 

• Create a fork and push your updates to this fork.
• Draw a polygon (e.g. hexagon) on map. Zoom - unzoom with mouse wheel. Drawing should be updated while zooming, it should not wait until mouse wheel stops.
• Pan with the right mouse click and drag. Drawing should be updated while panning, it should not wait until mouse button is released.
• Show country borders.
• On startup, map should center on Turkey and Turkey borders should fill the view.
• Document your progress/challenges, preferably create a public blog and write a developer diary there.

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