Software

Scraping Google Maps for Traffic Data

November 19th, 2012

I have a daily commute that I drive down the US 101 highway. The length of the drive can vary immensely with traffic, and I’ve always been curious what the optimal departure times are. I decided to gather data to solve this empirically, and went on an adventure in finding the right tool for the job.

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Security Camera From a Webcam

November 18th, 2012

Here’s a quick project that came together the evening before a long vacation. In order to get a little piece of mind I wanted to set up a simple security camera on a network accessible storage (NAS) server that I had recently set up. What I wanted was a program that could connect to a USB webcam and send me an email with a photo of any motion that occurred.

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Evilution

April 8th, 2012

This is a very simple evolution simulator.
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Webcomic Viewer

March 22nd, 2012

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This was another app made to add a specific function I couldn’t find elsewhere. This apps purpose is to view the title text associated with an image. Specifically for webcomics where there is an additional punchline in this text.
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Plant Pal

March 21st, 2012

Google Play Link
My first published android app. I decided to take a problem that I couldn’t find an existent app for and make a solution myself.
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GPS Spoofer

March 21st, 2012

This was an app that I didn’t publish. It used the developer interface to control the phones apparent GPS location over the network. This was just a proof of concept, but it could be used to provide a GPS location from an alternative source for a better location fix, or do play with making the phone think it’s someplace it isn’t.

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Web War

March 18th, 2012


This is a simple demo that builds a video game level based on the content of a webpage.
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