Tembo

Any team member who has ever worked with a shared email inbox knows how painful it can be to delegate work efficiently while staying up-to-date with all of the different tasks. Tembo was built to alleviate some of that pain. It's a Chrome extension for Gmail that provides shared thread histories, labels, and alerts — all of which update in real-time across different individual Gmail accounts. Tembo also features a dashboard that allows teams to customize their labels and email templates. The YouTube video is queued up to the part where we show Tembo's features in action. (I talk about the project's technical challenges at the end. We each present for about a minute.)

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Patatap Plus

This hackathon project started out as an exploration of synesthesia. The idea was to upload a song and pass it through different filters to produce high, mid, and low tracks, and then visualize each of those tracks as shapes and colors so that the final "painting" looked like one of Kandinsky's abstract geometric works. But then I realized that it was 2016 and no one has mp3s on a computer anymore. Thankfully, a classmate introduced me to Patatap, which is a collaboration between the media artist Jono Brandel and the music duo Lullatone. Rather than explaining what Patatap is, it's better if you play with it. It's a lot of fun! Anyway, I extended Patatap by adding the ability to record and layer loops. I still like the Kandinsky music visualizer idea though, but I think it would work better as a smartphone app. Now I have a good reason to learn how to make one of those.

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Wish Upon a Store

Wouldn't it be equally wonderful and terrible if we could buy wishes? Rather than ponder the ramifications of such a world, we built a fanciful e-commerce store that sold wishes. Consumers can do typical consumerly things like search, browse by category, add and remove items from their cart, checkout with a credit card, create and modify their account, sign in with Google, and leave reviews. Meanwhile, administrators can do typical administratorly things like edit orders, moderate reviews, update inventory, and grant admin access. Also, just to make sure that our customers don't get too much of a good thing, we limited them to 3 of each wish.

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Guessing Game

Remember that timeless game Guess What Number I'm Thinking Of ? The first bootcamp project assigned to our class was to recreate that game while meeting a list of requirements. For example, we had to give feedback on the guesses and optional hints. My version of the game uses color to indicate how close the player is to being correct and gives hints that are either trivia questions or randomly generated algebra equations. I got a kick out of learning how to do new things in CSS, like incorporating my favorite emoji as the cursor when it hovers over the text field and making an animation for when the player wins. It was a simple project but a lot of fun.

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