My latest App in production: VibeRunr (formerly Snip It)

It's currently called VibeRunr.

I had pitched it as "Snip It" at the App'Olympics and got pretty far in the event, winning "Best Use of Mashery's API", the only other prize given at the event!

VibeRunr combines the immediacy of texting with the emotion of music. This app sends a 30-60 second snippet of music that is sent like a text and arrives as a call.

Have you ever been on a great date? How do you let the other person know how you feel? Do you send a boring text, do you call? It could take hours to come up with the right words.

But I bet you can find the perfect bit of music that says it all.

Its easy to use: Open the app, Scroll through the albums/songs connect to your phonebook and send it to the person you chose.

The recipient receives a phone call and sees your number so they pick up and hear : "You have just received a VibeRunr from Maria"...the song plays, getting across exactly what you wanted to say in the perfect bit of music. After the snippet of music plays, you are prompted to buy the song and join VibeRunr to send one back.

Here is another example of use. Lets say your mom texts you "how did you do on your exam today?" You open up VibeRunr and send her a clip of Queen's "We are the Champions".

So that's what it does, hopefully my new partner and I can make it happen in the near future, I will keep you updated...

 

 

GUCCIDUINO - Low Tech Meets High Fashion

 

Behold the Gucciduino

I had heard that many people get headaches when the humidity rises so I came up with the pseudoscientific idea to put together a sensor on an arduino that would log a snapshot of the time/date/temperature/humidity at the push of a button. I found an old Gucci eyeglasses case and everything fit inside perfectly. I mean the Arduino is Italian so, why not? I think it really gives it a fashion-able look.

I used the SHT1x Humidity sensor, an SD shield by AdaFruit.com on top of the Freeduino (freetronics.com) and a 9V battery pack. I mashed together Lady Ada's Humiduino code http://tinyurl.com/3ux69xf, Jon Oxer's  SHT_1x library, which you can find here:  https://github.com/practicalarduino/SHT1x and I got help from friends at the NYC Resistor Hackerspace to guide me and further tweak it.

My human guinea pig has been logging in migraines with the Gucciduino so soon I will have lots of data.

My next step is to upload the data and create a neat-o data visualizer with my Processing skilz. So Stay tuned for more!

Check out the finished code at my GitHub Repo: https://github.com/PistachioPony/GucciDuino