Switch-Based Faculty Management System With Real-Time Camera Capture and SQLite Database

Clients

Techstack

Purpose

Knowing which professor is actually available — and being able to prove it later — is a small, constant friction in a busy department. A capstone team wanted faculty to flag their own status with a simple physical control, while quietly keeping an honest, reviewable record of every change.

Description

We built a board of per-faculty switches wired to a small computer, so a professor can set their availability with a flip and have it captured with a camera snapshot the moment it changes. A desktop interface shows live status, handles adding faculty and fielding requests, and a scrolling display makes current availability readable across the room. Every event is logged to a local database for accountability and later review — a tidy blend of physical controls, imaging, and record-keeping built to just work.