CST300: Module 5 (Week 5)

Part One: Comment on Teammate Posts

https://liamccsonlinelearningjournal.blogspot.com/2025/01/educational-goals-career-goals-ets-comp.html

https://ethancsonline.blogspot.com/2025/01/week-4.html

https://keshabneupane2001.blogspot.com/2025/02/week-4.html

Part Two: Possible Capstone Ideas

Personal Cookbook App: I cook and have a lot of bookmarked recipes saved in my browser from different sites.  With this app, recipes are sourced from partnering cooking/recipe sites.  That includes the ingredient lists and measurements, the instructions, author/chef commentary, etc. Regardless of the original site (allrecipes.com, epicurious.com, simplyrecipes.com, etc), the recipe is presented in a consistent format. Lack of consistent presentation is a pet peeve of people who hunt for recipes online.

-attribution and compensation to the originator/site

-comment section for recipes

-customization feature to add personal touches to existing recipes and make your changes shareable

-a mechanism to add ingredients to your preferred store's shopping cart and order them for pickup or delivery (Albertson's, Ralph's, Vons, Amazon Fresh, Instacart, DoorDash, etc.).

-revenue comes through ads and partnered grocers

Video Caller: A video calling tool targeted for use by elderly, visually impaired, less tech savvy users, and people who want a cheap simple way to use their TV for video calls.  Smaller than a set top box and connects to a TV.  Allows users to use the larger screen offered by a TV.
-Uses Google Meet and Google Assistant.
-Synced with Google Contacts
-Voice command to call specific contacts.
-Simple hardware and software interface for elderly and visually impaired.

CAN Bus Filter: A tool that is placed inline between two CAN bus nodes that can filter or modify CAN bus frames in transit.  Useful for debugging and fault injection for testing purposes.
-Block/discard frames with fields set to specific values. For example, discard frames with specific CAN IDs.
-Modify fields of CAN bus frames in transit.  For example, changing CAN IDs.
-[FUTURE] Logging CAN traffic with tools like Wireshark.

Part Three: Lessons from this Week

I am considering graduate school but it very much depends on my situation after graduation.  It is a massive commitment of time and energy so if I don’t believe that it will help my career going forward, then I will probably decide against it. If my career trajectory and industry trends justify additional schooling, then I will commit to it. I also hope to find an employer that has tuition reimbursement to help mitigate the cost.

This week is the first time that I have used an LLM. I knew that these models had come a long way so even though I was not surprised, I was impressed by the output. I do not plan to rely heavily on tools like this going forward. That said, t I can absolutely see myself using tools like ChatGPT when there is no ethical conflict and it is a task where there is little benefit for me to complete it on my own.