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Some Cool Projects I Have Done
Here I describe some projects I have done till now in my programming career
Introduction:
Since I began programming I have built some really cool applications .The very first software I built was “ Talking Calculator “ . It was built using the .net framework and runs as a windows desktop application .Building It was both joy and pain. But It taught me some valuable things like REST APIs , how a UI program works , asynchronous programming , databases etc . Since then I have coded nearly half a dozen apps and never looked back . Some were simple and some drove me crazy . I also didn’t constraint myself to a single platform , I built a command line app , Two desktop apps and two mobile apps and now these days I am working on a web application. Anyway let’s get started .
Virtual-Scribe
Virtual Scribe is a research-based project which allows visually impaired students to write examinations without the need of a scribe. It is completely voice-controlled and allows writing, drawing figures, and performing calculations. We have developed a prototype of it in PyQt5 and still working to make it industry-ready. Recently Virtual-Scribe won first prize in a Hackathon conducted by I-STEM. You can watch a demo video of it we presented in the Hackathon:
Beat The Culprit
A command line application built in Python . It uses OpenCV to detect faces from a video stream . The detected face is then sent to Azure Face API for recognition, to find whether it belongs to a criminal . If it is, the responsible authorities are notified using text messages. It was quite fun to work on it . The app was built in just 200 lines of code! You can check this video showcasing how the app is working :
Where Is My
A cross platform app built using flutter framework . It keeps track of things a person often forgets about , things like keys , wallet , credit cards etc . A user just needs to provide voice input (or can directly write) like “I placed my wallet in the drawer” and that’s it , the app automatically finds sentiment of the phrase using Natural Language Processing technology . To retrieve a lost key , wallet or any other other object , the user just needs to say or write “where is my key ” and the app will find its location . Since everything is stored in a cloud database , the user has access to his data on different devices , he just needs to sign in .
Talking Calculator
It was the first app that I built . It was an academic project . It is a calculator but not an ordinary one . It has buttons but it can also accept voice inputs . A user just need to say ” Multiply 15 and 17 ” , ”What is cosine of 90 degrees ” etc and our app will not only calculate and display the result but also speak back it to the user! . It was built to help visually impaired and other differently abled people . It was difficult but taught some valuable things . I designed the UI and coded a part of it while travelling in the train ! It was built as a Windows Form Application .
NASA APOD
A simple flutter app that uses NASA APOD REST API to deliver beautiful Astronomical Pictures to users . I am not going to describe much about it , if you are interested , you can enjoy this tutorial which describes how it was built from scratch. It also tells you things like What are Futures and how to handle them.
