Bachelor thesis

Completed in September 2015 by Simon Jakubowski.

Many people are familiar with peg beads from pre-school age: small, colourful
plastic beads with a central hole can be pegged onto special peg boards
to create colourful pictures or symmetrical patterns
. A finished work can then be heated with a
iron, for example. This causes the
beads to fuse together so that it can be removed in one piece from the underlying
studded plate and is permanent. It can be used, for example, as a
window picture or coaster.

As the creation of a plug-in bead picture is time-consuming, a system for the automated creation
of such plug-in bead pictures was realised in
of the System Software and Distributed Systems department as part of a
student thesis. This system - based on
a small RaspberryPi computer in conjunction with an Arduino - is to be used
at student information days, among other things, to illustrate the
versatility of the tasks and possibilities of
Computing Science.

The aim of the work is to design and prototypically implement a system
that enables the ordering of a bead picture for a motif to be specified at
remotely via a web browser. The
processing of such an order (incl. booking, creation of the
bead picture, dispatch, complaints, order tracking etc.)
is to be largely systematised and automated.

Prof. Dr.-Ing. Oliver Theel