teaching machines

TODO: Landon Burlingham

October 18, 2012 by . Filed under cs491 mobile, fall 2012, postmortems.

I’ve been thinking about this quite a bit lately and although its a little behind schedule I think I finally know what I would like to learn about in this class. The first thing that really got my attention was a mouse controller for windows with a tablet. Although i know there are some out there I would really like to make one that has similar function to the multi-touch Mac functions. Like if you slide three fingers up it will show you all running programs and from there you will be able to select one. Another app that i would like to create is a video game that was like the old windows 95 Skifree game; Just thinking about it brings back memories. Another app that would be enjoyable to make would be something that allowed you to use your phone as a voice masker. Hitting a button would allow you to record your voice and then change it to sound like something else. Maybe we could have it distort your voice while talking on the phone. An app that allows you to use someones phone to listen in on someones private conversation in real time would be pretty cool although maybe not ethical. It would allow you to access the persons mic and turn it on so that there conversation could be heard from your phone or computer without them knowing that your listening. And finally a simple camera app that lets you distort the image kind of like the photobooth program on a Mac.