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TARA: Totally Awesome Recipe Assistant
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Screenshot of TARA website showing recipe view of baked macaroni and cheese

A Meteor-based voice assistant web application for cooking with recipes.

kevincon/tara

A “Siri for recipes” web application written using Meteor.js.

JavaScript
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Stanford Marguerite iPhone App
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Screenshot of Stanford Marguerite iOS app showing next buses to arrive at Palto Alto Transit Center

A free, open-source iPhone app for the Stanford Marguerite shuttle bus system.

kevincon/marguerite-ios

An iPhone app for riders of the Stanford Marguerite shuttle bus system.

Objective-C
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Utility Knife
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Animated GIF showing navigation in and out of Dropbox folders using UtilityKnife

A Flask-based web app for visualizing Dropbox space/file usage as a treemap.

kevincon/utilityknife

Windirstat for Dropbox (visualization of Dropbox space/file usage).

HTML
31
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Lightning Rod
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A free, cross-platform Dropbox client written in Java that runs on a flash drive.

Teammates: Evan Benshetler, Mike Chen Casey Conley Bill Etter

Awards:

  • Finalist, AngelHack Hackathon, Spring 2012
kevincon/lightningrod

A cross-platform Dropbox client written in Java.

Java
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HAWK: Helicopter Aircraft Wielding Kinect
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Picture of HAWK quadrotor helicopter

A quadrotor equipped with a Microsoft Kinect that creates 3D maps of buildings.

Teammates: Kelsey Duncombe-Smith,  Bill Etter, Paul Gurniak, Matt Hale, Alfredo Muniz,  Teddy Zhang

Advisor: Rahul Mangharam

Awards:

  • 2nd Place, Cornell Cup Embedded Systems Competition, 2012
  • Honorable Mention, University of Pennsylvania ESE Senior Design, 2011-2012
mlab-upenn/HAWK-daemons

Daemons for the Helicopter Aircraft Wielding Kinect (HAWK) project.

C
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enunciate.me
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Screenshot of enunciate.me website showing pronunciation page for “Kevin Conley”

A Django-based web app/widget that helps others learn how to pronounce your name correctly.

Teammates: Casey Conley, Varun Sampath

Awards:

  • Best Market Potential Award, PennApps Hackathon, Spring 2012

uWave
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Picture of uWave microwave

A microwave hacked to play YouTube videos, completed in under 40 hours.

Teammates:  Varun Sampath, Ben Shyong Teddy Zhang

Awards:

  • First Place, PennApps Hackathon, Fall 2011

Website

vsampath/uWave

Team Wye Delta’s Project for PennApps 2011

Java
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SMS Person Finder
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Screenshot of smspersonfinder text message conversation

A crowd-sourced, text-message interface for Google’s Person Finder disaster victim database, completed in under 24 hours.

Teammates: Ted Lee + many others, see README

Awards:

  • First Place, Random Hacks of Kindness Silicon Valley Hackathon, June 2011
dbro/smspersonfinder

SMS interface to the Google Person Finder service

HTML
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AutoPlug
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Picture of AutoPlug device powered on

A prototype automotive architecture for plug-n-play services.

Teammates: Gabe Torres,  Teddy Zhang

Advisor: Rahul Mangharam

Awards:

  • Grand Prize, World Embedded Software Contest, 2010
  • Best Presentation, Rachleff Scholars Research Symposium, 2010

NEStalgia
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Picture of NEStalgia controller opened up

A wireless rifle controller for the game Cabal on the Nintendo Entertainment System.

Teammate:  Evan Benshetler

Website


SEPTA Now
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Screenshot of SEPTA Now web app showing locations of trains on a map

A Rails-based real-time visualization of SEPTA’s regional rail trains, completed in under 40 hours.

Teammates:  Varun Sampath, Ben Shyong Teddy Zhang

Awards:

  • Student Choice Award, PennApps Hackathon, Fall 2010
kevincon/septanow

A Rails-based real-time visualization of SEPTA’s regional rail trains, completed in under 40 hours for PennApps Fall 2010.

JavaScript
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