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Here's the Most Idiotic and Brilliant App Ever

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Re: Here's the Most Idiotic and Brilliant App Ever

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Post by stephencanon »

refurb wrote: post #79

Business idea! Put together a baseball with an accelerometer, a small digital display and maybe bluetooth as well. Sell it to schools and individual athletes as a training device. You pitch and it tells you what the speed of the last pitch was. Connect it up to a computer and it will give you a graph of the velocity over time, allow you to track improvements in pitching and track users. Or does such a thing already e…

Been around for years. I remember playing with one as a kid. The ones I've used haven't been too accurate or consistent, however. Amazon reviews indicate that not much has changed.

Re: Here's the Most Idiotic and Brilliant App Ever

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Post by snmcqueen »

For the iOS crowd: here is a similar game my friends and I built at a Hackathon last week with Node and Socket.io that you can play from mobile Safari: http://phonesma.sh/

Visit it on your browser to get started, then on your iPhone to play (App is not tuned for Android accelerometer data yet).

Re: Here's the Most Idiotic and Brilliant App Ever

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Post by jonemo »

I remember working on a similar, though slightly less destructive, app. I had a first or second generation iPod touch and it's back was curved so that you could spin it on a flat surface. I collected lots of accelerometer data and wrote the algorithm to figure out how long and fast the device had been spinning. Unfortunately, the next generation of devices came out with a flat back so I shelved the idea.

Re: Here's the Most Idiotic and Brilliant App Ever

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Post by spuz »

ge0rg wrote: post #49

Ok, the app's web service is rather prone to manipulation: You just need to HTTP GET the following URL: http://www.carrotpop.com/smth/php/save_result.php?id= &nickname= &country=&result= &latitude=0&longitude=0 * UID looks like an autoincrement ID * NICK is what you entered for the highscore * HEIGHT is the float value of the height in meters, i.e. "1.23" In the HTTP response, you get a data structure (not sure which…

Can I ask how you discovered the URL the app was making requests to?

Re: Here's the Most Idiotic and Brilliant App Ever

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Post by adestefan »

stephencanon wrote: post #81
refurb wrote: post #79

Business idea! Put together a baseball with an accelerometer, a small digital display and maybe bluetooth as well. Sell it to schools and individual athletes as a training device. You pitch and it tells you what the speed of the last pitch was. Connect it up to a computer and it will give you a graph of the velocity over time, allow you to track improvements in pitching and track users. Or does such a thing already e…

Been around for years. I remember playing with one as a kid. The ones I've used haven't been too accurate or consistent, however. Amazon reviews indicate that not much has changed.

I remember playing with those in the early 80s. We'd try to get the highest number by smashing them off of brick walls.

Re: Here's the Most Idiotic and Brilliant App Ever

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Post by mlreed328 »

spuz wrote: post #84
ge0rg wrote: post #49

Ok, the app's web service is rather prone to manipulation: You just need to HTTP GET the following URL: http://www.carrotpop.com/smth/php/save_result.php?id= &nickname= &country=&result= &latitude=0&longitude=0 * UID looks like an autoincrement ID * NICK is what you entered for the highscore * HEIGHT is the float value of the height in meters, i.e. "1.23" In the HTTP response, you get a data structure (not sure which…

Can I ask how you discovered the URL the app was making requests to?

I'm guessing Wire Shark.

Re: Here's the Most Idiotic and Brilliant App Ever

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Post by VladRussian2 »

jfj wrote: post #51

It requires GPS. Crashes on my tablet. Also, see their Facebook. They publicly post GPS location of winners, together with StreetView. Is that stated in the app? It can be a privacy concern. com.carrotpop.www.smth E/AndroidRuntime: FATAL EXCEPTION: main java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: requested provider gps doesn't exisit at android.os.Parcel.readException(Parcel.java:1429) at android.os.Parcel.readException(Parc…

man, you've tried it with tablet! How big your tablet is? I think they should appropriately rescale scores for the weight and aerodynamics of the object being thrown.

Re: Here's the Most Idiotic and Brilliant App Ever

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Post by yareally »

spuz wrote: post #84
ge0rg wrote: post #49

Ok, the app's web service is rather prone to manipulation: You just need to HTTP GET the following URL: http://www.carrotpop.com/smth/php/save_result.php?id= &nickname= &country=&result= &latitude=0&longitude=0 * UID looks like an autoincrement ID * NICK is what you entered for the highscore * HEIGHT is the float value of the height in meters, i.e. "1.23" In the HTTP response, you get a data structure (not sure which…

Can I ask how you discovered the URL the app was making requests to?

Decompile the apk with one of a number of tools (apktool, baksmali). Least that would be what I would do.
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