Showcase of Projects from Hack U at the University of Washington
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Hack U
Show projects from Hack U at the University of Washington.
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Hacks
Scrabbliscious
Place letters on a board and spell.
Code: Java / Swing
flickr alarm
http://students.washington.edu/yskhoo/flickralarm/index.html
Alarm application that pulls from flickr tags; requires matching the tags to the image in order to turn off the alarm.
- Initial list of words to get the list of images
- Pull images with at least three images
- Look up synonyms
- Render the page
WikiBot
Interactive look-up of questions from WikiPedia. Example noted was the creator of PHP.
Chili recipe
16 step process for getting chili recipes.
gimmethatchili
Code: Rails
Global Chat
Google maps based chat based on the IP of the user. Chat room ID based on the location identifier provided by Yahoo!
http://students.washington.edu/ckwalsh/hacku/
Rasmus: PHP! Marty: Who created PHP? "Andi Gutmans and Zeev Suraski, who rewrote the parser that formed PHP 3"…?
Google Maps Packgman
Map data converted to PacMan. Use caching of street view data to determine available paths.
mNetfree
Allow mobile phone access to IMAP account.
Pandopic
Refinement of picture selection from Flickr
SkyNet Search
http://students.washington.edu/jchen056/hacku/
Code: Javascript
GeoSlideShow
Get pictures of a particular location based on navigation through the Yahoo! Maps API.
Code: Adobe Air
Get Syncy
Summarize what people are talking about based on Twitter tags then cross-referenced to Yahoo! news results.