Sounds like an impossible task. I took on one said task, but did manage to do it. Project was write an Operating system in C with a instruction set emulator with a virtual card reader for the program input and a virtual line printer. Everyone else had 4-5 people in their group. I had my girlfriend at the time and was working full time. Incidentally, it was my FIRST "C" program.
If that was my first "C" program, you should know what my first FORTRAN program was. A DDC program with 7 PID loops and recipeis on a real-time OS. Two people worked about 8 months on the project. $25,000.00 USD budget for hardware. 1980's.
My first CosMac 1802 program was also impressive. The first routines I wrote was gosub and return. The processor has pass the program counter instead. No compiler. Compiled by hand. program was a gantry crane for a model railroad. 9x4 positions, 27 pieces of cargo.
Did the electronics hardware too. Later did it all over using BASIC.