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About Zeus WPI
Zeus WPI is the student association for Computer Science at Ghent University. Our goal is to provide a stimulating environment for motivated students looking to expand their skills by engaging in interesting real-world projects.
We organize various tech related talks by experts (eg. professors, PhD's, Richard Stallman, Felix Reda, ...), hands-on coding events and introductory lectures for cool technologies. Together we build interesting applications for Ghent University students (Hydra), for FaculteitenKonvent and 12urenloop, and ofcourse for ourselves.
Blogposts
2023-02-04 • Jasper Devreker • We bypass read-out protection on the CC2510
One of our members managed to score some e-ink displays from eBay. These displays are used in shops, where they indicate the price of the items that can be bought. This has two key advantages over regular paper price tags: the text on the e-ink displays can be updated automatically and it’s possible to do fancier graphics. e-ink has an important distinction from the more common LCD screens: they only use power when they change their content. This enables the tags to have a small capacity batt...
2022-12-21 • Tibo Ulens • Because why have one system that can fail, when you can have several
Every Zeus member needs to enter the Kelder at some point, so why not give them ample choice for how they should do so. Inspired by Niko’s addition of a Zeus-specific mode to Hydra which allowed the door to be unlocked using NFC and fueled by the incessant desire to do anything that isn’t studying brought on by the exam season, I decided everyone’s favourite door could do with yet another upgrade: a random fingerprint sensor I found in the back of the electronics closet! Hardware The Sensor...
2022-11-22 • Jasper Devreker • We hack an Android TV box into something useful
Our mobile Internet Service Provider (ISP) has a bundle where they provide a 4G modem for internet access, and a separate TV set-top box that can be used to watch their TV content or to watch streaming services. This device was sent to us as part of the bundle, but at Zeus, we don’t really have a use for it: we don’t really watch television in our space. What we do have a need for, however, are low-power computers that can run Linux. In this blog post, we will hack this set-top box to run Lin...
2022-11-15 • Jasper Devreker
De 12urenloop is een jaarlijkse loopwedstrijd aan de Universiteit Gent. De deelnemende studentenverenigingen lopen in een estafetterace die 12 uur duurt zoveel mogelijk rondjes. Elk team krijgt één baton (doorgeefstok) toegekend, dus ze kunnen maar één loper tegelijk hebben. Zeus doet al even het tellen op de 12urenloop: eerst via een manueel telsysteem waarbij de rugnummers van de lopers worden ingegeven, dan vanaf 2011 met een automatisch telsysteem dat werkt via bluetooth-modules in de ba...