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Starlight is a project showcase that celebrates all kinds of software projects being built by passionate developers at UNSW. The showcase will be held on the 25th of July 2025. Submissions are open to everyone that has a project they want to share! More information about the event is avaliable here.

Schedule

  1. Meet the projects

  2. QA Panel

  3. Prize Annoucement

Supporters

Arc
CSE
Roundhouse
UNSW

Industry Guests

Arista
Lyra Technologies
imc
Jane Street
Safety Culture
The Trade Desk

Society Partners

Bluesat
Create UNSW
Game Makers Society
RAMSoc
Redback Racing

Arcane Raiders

Team up with your wizard friends to pillage the magic tower! Create elemental synergies, defeat powerful bosses and claim the tower's treasure in this rogue-like dungeon-raider.

Check it out

Bluesat - Ground Station

This ground station maintains an uplink and downlink connection with Bluesat's high altitude balloon and potentially their own cubesat in low Earth orbit.

Bluesat - High Altitude Balloon

Bluesat's high air balloon just made its first flight reaching a max altitude of 35 km carrying a reseach payload!

Bluesat - Rover

Bluesat has seen the returned to their Offworld Robotics project and in just entered their first rover challenge since 2019.

Breaktime

Block distracting apps permanently and take intentional breaks.

Cram & Conquer

A cozy study app built for students :) Focus better with aesthetic Pomodoro timer, lofi music, focus pets, and powerful study tools and trackers.

CREATE UNSW - Cheese Chessboard

An interactive physical chessboard with light-up visuals and piece-recognition technology.

CREATE UNSW - Spiderbot

Check out this cool bot by the CREATE team! It even dances!

D&C: Divide and Conquer

An interactive visual novel-style learning platform that uses AI-generated narrative adventures to enhance student engagement with course content.

Doomscroll to Distinction

Doomscroll your way to a distinction. Students are already doomscrolling. Don’t fight it. Leverage it.

Drift

Drift breaks your big goals into small, actionable steps and creates a clear daily schedule, making it easier to stay on track and achieve success step by step.

Droid Racing Challenge - Speedy Gonzales

Autonomous racing droid using computer vision for lane detection and navigation.

Electus - 25T1 Trainee Project

Make society elections easier with this open source voting platform!

Formify

Formify automates tedious, manual form-filling with voice recognition! It uses WebSocket connections, real-time audio analysis, and mapping of natural dialogue into structured data to make interactions feel effortless.

Generic Assembler (v2)

Assembles assembler for custom ISAs. Designed for learning processor development. Prevents the need for hand assembling.Currently supports MIPS like ISAs!

Helios

Helios is the ultimate Chrome extension for language learners. Get instant translations, track your progress, and build vocabulary while watching Netflix, YouTube, or browsing the web.

Inflow

Inflow is a smart Chrome extension that uses AI to block distracting sites based on your current goal, keeping you focused and in the zone without relying on static blocklists.

Lock Step

A Cybersecurity Toolkit created to bridge the gap for small businesses who face real threats but lack the resources, time and expertise. Straightforward, Practical, and Jargon-free guidance!

Pokémon Showdown Team Stealer

A (soon to be) Chrome extension to help you steal teams from Showdown Live videos from YouTube! This app automates the tedious process of manually stealing Pokémon Showdown teams from YouTube videos!

QuirioPilot

AI tutor that doesn’t just answer questions it helps you explore your curiosity. It breaks queries down into clear subtopics, explain them in simple terms and generates interactive quizzes.

RAMSOC - Pick-a-bots

Pick-A-Bots is a webapp that lets RAMSoc Sumobots finals' audience “bet” on matches. Users starts with fixed tokens, stake tokens on their predicted winner, and earn tokens for correct picks.

RAMSOC - Sumobots

The top bots from RAMSoc's Sumobot competition are coming! Check out their unique designs and learn more about the competition!

Room 134

A physio student with zero experience in coding and 3d modelling started her three.js project.

Sussy Uni

Social deduction game for UNSW students to help them revise content, make friends, familiarise themselves with popular locations on campus, and have fun!

Tastebuds

Find the perfect taste for your buds! Find food to eat with your friends in real-time!

UNSW Loove Letters

An anonymous confession platform for UNSW students, powered by AI moderation to ensure a safe and engaging space for sharing.

UNSW Redback Racing - Autonomous Vehicles

Suite of automated systems to allow an autonomous car to percieve and navigate around a circuit. This includes developing both vehicle simulations alongside hardware.

UNSW Redback Racing - Data Acquistion

Redback Racing's Data Acquisition Team focuses on capturing vehicle telemetry data and displaying it in a meaningful way. Check out their vehicle driver display and a live telemetry web app!

yellowshirt - 24T2 Trainee Project

A location-guessing game for universities, targeting new and accustomed students alike.