Interesting MSc Dissertations at Trinity in Dublin

I have been at Trinity College in Dublin today as external member of the MSc exam board. While reading MSc dissertations I learned at lot of interesting things. Here are two pointers to technologies which I like to share (they may be useful in further projects):

SUMO - Simulation of Urban Mobility: An open source traffic simulation package
http://sumo.sourceforge.net/

Small computing platform: http://gumstix.com/

MP3 Player Module for Prototyping

Just talked to Matthias Kranz and he told me about an interesting MP3-Player module from http://www.roguerobotics.com - uMP3. It is not cheap but very versatile and it seems easy to use with a PIC. Looking at the documentation of the uMP3 I saw there is even a function to control the playback speed. It seems this is an interesting tool for prototyping and teaching labs!