Category: Application
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Basic design: a brick in your pocket with a giant battery, all the RAM, CPU, and storage. A Bluetooth earbud with also a giant battery (must last a day always on). Use cases: Leverage all the voice-activated functions of current chat bots. User merely speaks all commands, text messages, calendar events, etc. Bluetooth keyboard and…
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Motivation Playing Descent: Journeys In The Dark (1E) can be an exercise in confusion, especially when one has several conditions in play, is a Necromancer, and is wandering through a trapped dungeon. My second app for Android, built using App Inventor, is designed to make such checks fast and error-free. The Application Here is a…
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Motivation I decided to try out Google App Inventor, being invited to the Beta. I wanted a simple enough project to get a feel for the process without becoming bogged down in complex logic or user interface (UI) design. It occurred to me that a random Oracle generator for the In A Wicked Age role-playing…
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Challenge Municipal food banks depend upon food donations to serve the hungry. Coordinating donors with bank locations becomes a logistical challenge: Picking up donations in a timely manner, without disrupting donor business Distributing donations to banks that need them most Accounting for the storage space of banks Transferring food between banks, if actual numbers do…