[Technocelestia]

You're right, it will be ultimately up to the committee. A committee which doesn't exist yet, unfortunately. I ran the initial idea by one of the professors I wanted on my committee because he's The FPGA Guy, but he tried to steer me towards doing something else because he thought it sounded like too much. Maybe the formal proposal will go over better. Also, I'd like your opinion on the idea from a software perspective, if you'd be willing to help. The project itself is, of course, hardware, but closely tied to software.