... any devices that I could easily experiment with that don't cost an insane amount.
A Raspberry Pi Pico W microcontroller can trivially be configured to act as an IoT source device. It has a recommended price of 6 usd before local taxes and delivery. Perhaps that's not 'insane.'
Ref: Raspberry Pi Pico W: your $6 IoT platform - https://www.raspberrypi.com/news/raspbe ... -platform/
No innovation there that would persuade me you had met a graduation requirement.
With that out of the way you will be free to concentrate on your research into blockchain coding, which seems to be the innovative part of your proposal that might gain you some credit if you persuade your examiners that you have understood it and been able to implement it.
But I have never 'understood' Crypto. I simply use it every day without question. So I can't help with that.
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Statistics: Posted by B.Goode — Thu Jul 04, 2024 10:18 am