SUNSET is a student-run engineering collective at Sejong University. Robotic hands, load-cell chairs, UAV payloads, AI movie engines — built in dorm rooms and lab benches, documented like the real thing, because it is.
Illustrative commit-activity waveform. Peak 14 commits per day, 6 active repositories, organization activity since 2024.
SUNSET exists so the best group-project ideas at Sejong don't end at the demo — they get a repo, a maintainer, and a reason to keep building after the grade is in.
If it can be touched, wired, or soldered, we'd rather build the real thing than mock it up. Servos, load cells, flight controllers, microcontrollers — the lab bench is the whiteboard.
Every project ships with a real README — wiring diagrams, protocols, calibration steps, cited sources. Future-you and the next cohort should be able to pick it up cold.
CS students pair with mechanical and electronics majors on every build. Nobody finishes a SUNSET project having only touched the part they already knew.
Pulled straight from our GitHub — real commit histories, real hardware, real students attached to every one of them.
Gesture-responsive prosthetic-hand prototype mapping hand-tracking landmarks to five servo-driven finger states.
Multimodal movie-recommendation research prototype combining visual, audio, environmental, and model-generated context.
UAV/AIoT crowd-management prototype with camera streaming, ground-control routing, telemetry, and experimental AI integration.
Smart-chair sensing prototype estimating seated balance and posture-related signals from load cells and an IMU.
Audio-responsive generative visual system in Processing P3D with sensor-influenced node behavior.
Physical-first automation concept using NFC and weight-sensing Pucks to trigger contextual software or smart-home actions.
There's no committee. If a few people want to build it and can explain why it should exist, it becomes a project.
Anyone proposes a build — hardware, software, or both. The bar is "can we actually make this," not "is this impressive enough."
Find the people who complement your gaps. Mechanical, embedded, ML, frontend — the mix matters more than the pitch deck.
Push early, push often. Broken commits are fine. The README should explain what works and what doesn't.
Architecture notes, limitations, wiring diagrams. Make it possible for the next student to continue without a oral history.
SUNSET archives student-built systems. Proposals should include a clear question, expected output, and documentation plan.