Modus Prototyping
Modus-Keystone is an augmented reality game to learn about Pennsylvania's rich historical sites. Participants earn crypto currency for reaching new historical landmarks and for solving puzzles associated with each destination.
Civic Projects Directory 266
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Philly Bike Share Map Maintaining
Philly Bike Share for Android Display kiosk status on a nice little native Android map. Goal: stability over features. No crashing. ever.
Social Hub For Programmers Commenting
I want to create a social hub for programmers to do daily challenges. The objective of this project is to create a website where users can post programming questions and users are allowed to challenge them by answer the programming question. In the end establishing a community of programming elites. Does anyone want to hop onboard?
Minimal Blue Bikes Philly Maintaining
Minimal Blue Bikes Philly
Miniaml Blue Bikes Philly is an Android app displays station status for the Indego Bike Share in Philadelphia. There is NO MAP, NO GPS, and works on Android 2.3+. It shows the station name, distance and direction from a reference "current" station, a color icon showing status / how full, and number of bikes/docks available. There is a summary statistics page, a station detail w/ address and location hint.
Why Minimal?
I have a 5 year old phone running Android 2.3 and I wanted a quick and light app to find stations, bikes, and docks. I know the city…
Bike Share Philly Android Maintaining
Download it here https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.peterchappy.bikesharephilly&hl=en
O.S.C.A.V. (Open System for Computer Accessible Vision) Testing
cvRecognition
A face recognition app for Android which allows a user to train a person's face and store details about them. Aimed towards helping people with dementia and blindness.
Screenshots
Searching for faces:
Displaying results:
Bike Route Tracker (CyclePhilly) Drifting
I am interested in developing a smartphone-based project to collect voluntary data on cyclists' bike route preferences.
The goal is to promote the app during a two to four week window where city or regional bicyclists would be encouraged to download and use the app to track their biking habits. The route data would be linked to a webmapping viewer that would allow users to the recorded routes and bike patterns of of all participants in realtime (users get fun instant feedback, we get great if self-selectedâ data in the aggregate).
The data generated would supplement the Delaware…
OpenTripPlanner Maintaining
A deployment of the OpenTripPlanner multi-modal trip planning tool. Loaded with transit data for agencies in PA, NJ, NY, CT, and DE. Useful for trip planning and transit accessibility analysis.
