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Re: Ask HN: Show me your half baked project

#23
Observideo [1]. Initially a web app that links to dropbox to facilitate my wife's student's research on behaviour by tagging video segments. Now it's a half baked electron app. Initially made for her research projects, most students either use excel or some expensive software.

[1] https://github.com/mping/observideo

Re: Ask HN: Show me your half baked project

#24
http://rhn.github.io/jazda/

Jazda is a simple hackable bicycle computer. You can build it out of components available in your local electronics store (except the display).

I started it some 10 years ago as an experiment in AVR programming, before Arduino existed, and it keeps a honorable place in the back of my head ever since.

Re: Ask HN: Show me your half baked project

#26
https://lofichess.com

I wanted a trimmed down interface for following live chess streams. To keep the website updated I run an AWS Lambda every two minutes that does the following:

1. Pulls active streams from the Twitch API.

2. Uses the Go templates library to repackage the response as static HTML.

3. Uploads the static HTML to S3, where it is served behind CloudFront.

Re: Ask HN: Show me your half baked project

#29
A hand coded Android homescreen. It has

- App shortcuts on sidebar

- App drawer

- QOTD, TODO

- Any flutter widget that you can think off!

Why?

Having multiple apps just to customize my home screen was not working for me. So I decided to hand code my home screen. Implementing Flutter widgets is so fast and easy that I have replaced apps like TODO, Quotes, Grocery list with Flutter widgets on home screen. I am planning to add more functions to it like

- Drinking water reminders

- Solar panel output monitor

- Blog visitor counter

The downside of using Flutter for this is existing widgets and App Icons on home screen are not supported.

Here is the repo: https://github.com/quaintdev/anchor

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