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Playing with SparkFun’s BigTime Watch Kit

I ‘ve decided to work every year between Dec 25 and the new year day on a fun project that I might feel… tol “embarrassed” to work on on any other occasion. Last year it was an arduino-based game console with a 4×20 LCD screen and 4 buttons (about which I should write sometime). This [...]

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Analyzing users in Google+ circles

The project is here: http://polychronis.gr/gplusanalyzer/ This started as an effort to look into Robert Scoble‘s circles to find interesting people. Since the Google+ API is not out yet, I decided not to spend more than 24h on this project, so this is literally how much time I ‘ve spent on it. You provide the ID of [...]

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Geo.gy: the location shortener

My new project is out: http://geo.gy/ Were you ever in the middle of a conversation and needed to share your location with the other party? Geo.gy is a platform-independent, location shortener service. It uses HTML5 to detect your location, then gives you a short url to a pointer on a map. You can use Geo.gy to add [...]

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Xray Audio, OnStar Edition

This is a cute project I worked on with Boris Kizelshteyn and Victor Hung a couple of months ago for the OnStar Student Developer Challenge. We were among the 6 finalists! We presented the project at the Where 2.0 2011 conference in Santa Clara. I was lucky enough to meet Robert Scoble at a dinner there! The project enables drivers on the [...]

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MoneyTracker

MoneyTracker is side-project that emerged as a tool for my Monopoly sessions; being the “banker” all the time, I was doing lots of repetitive work to keep track of the money exchanges while instead I wanted to focus on the more strategic part of the game. The result is MoneyTracker, which takes care of the [...]

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