Software Development · APIs
Build a weather app using a public API
Show current weather and a five-day forecast for any city using a free weather API.
- Intermediate
- 2–7 days
- Free
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Technology projects 19
Coding, AI, data, security and hardware projects for school computer science, college courses and your portfolio. Most need only a computer and free software.
19 Technology projects
Artificial Intelligence + Statistics and Probability
Predict house prices with linear regression
Use a public housing dataset to predict price from size, rooms and location.
- Intermediate
- 2–7 days
- Free
Software Development · Frontend
Make a personal portfolio website
Design and publish a fast, mobile-friendly site that shows who you are and what you have built.
- Easy
- 2–7 days
- Free
Data · Data Analytics
Explore a dataset and tell its story
Pick a public dataset, ask five questions of it and answer each with a chart.
- Easy
- 2–7 days
- Free
Programming + Pure Mathematics
Write classic sorting algorithms and race them
Implement bubble, insertion, merge and quick sort and plot how their running time grows.
- Intermediate
- 2–7 days
- Free
Programming + Cybersecurity
Make a file encryption tool
Encrypt and decrypt files with a password using a well-tested library.
- Intermediate
- 2–7 days
- Free
Systems and Cloud · Containers
Containerise an application with Docker
Package one of your own apps and its database so anyone can run it with one command.
- Intermediate
- 2–7 days
- Free
Systems and Cloud · Networking
Build a chat system on raw sockets
Write a server and client that exchange messages over TCP with several users.
- Intermediate
- 2–7 days
- Free
Programming · Python
Build a Markdown-to-HTML converter
Write a tool that converts headings, lists, links, bold and code blocks from Markdown to HTML.
- Intermediate
- 2–7 days
- Free
Cybersecurity · Digital Forensics
Recover deleted files from a test drive
Delete files on a spare USB drive, image it and see what can be recovered and why.
- Intermediate
- 2–7 days
- Free
Data · Data Engineering
Clean a messy real-world dataset
Take a messy government dataset and produce a clean, documented version with a script.
- Intermediate
- 2–7 days
- Free
Cybersecurity + Systems and Cloud
Analyse your own home network traffic
Capture traffic on your own computer and identify which protocols and services it talks to.
- Intermediate
- 2–7 days
- Free
Software Development · Web Development
Create a recipe finder from ingredients
Let users enter the ingredients they have and rank recipes by how many they match.
- Intermediate
- 2–7 days
- Free
Artificial Intelligence · Speech
Build a speech-to-text note taker
Record speech, transcribe it with an open model and measure the word error rate.
- Intermediate
- 2–7 days
- Free
Software Development · Developer Tools
Create a browser extension that blocks distractions
Build an extension that blocks chosen sites during study hours and shows time saved.
- Intermediate
- 2–7 days
- Free
Systems and Cloud · DevOps
Deploy a website with continuous integration
Set up a pipeline that tests and deploys your site automatically on every push.
- Intermediate
- 2–7 days
- Free
Artificial Intelligence · Computer Vision
Recognise hand gestures to control slides
Detect hand landmarks from a webcam and map gestures to next and previous slide.
- Intermediate
- 2–7 days
- Free
Systems and Cloud · Operating Systems
Simulate CPU scheduling algorithms
Simulate first-come-first-served, shortest-job-first and round robin and compare waiting times.
- Intermediate
- 2–7 days
- Free
Artificial Intelligence + Cybersecurity
Build a face-blurring privacy tool
Detect faces in photos and blur them automatically before sharing.
- Intermediate
- 2–7 days
- Free
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