About Offer Detail Page: Emphasis on merchant’s image relating to offer.

About PuppyPics: Chrome extension that replaces page images with pictures of puppies!
Intent: Brighten up people’s day with pictures of puppies.
Personal Intent: Wanted to build a Chrome extension and something fun.
Backstory: Wanted to stretch my JavaScript muscles and follow a new set of guidelines for development.

Gallery:

• Rely on the MAN pages. They will explain what all those crazy characters after the command mean.
• Always wear protection when doing woodwork
• Piping will save you a great deal of time when you need to write a script quickly and don’t have time to clean it up
• Try to work with people with different work backgrounds than you. You’ll learn a great deal, and have some bonding time in the process

GALLERY:

Photo of me wiring a lightbulb stand by @praetoriansentry

About MoneyRunner:  Remember the days of the Atari by being a 1980′s money hungry investor looking for coins and taking them away from other players.

GALLERY:

Players get points each time they are hit by moving objects.

To access project: Call (206) 456-1465, ext 1 when asked.

About GameCentral: Allow anyone with a mobile phone (old-school Nokia phones to the new fancy smart-phones) to play audio-based brain games.

The user calls the number, their number is automatically pushed to the server, where it is check to see if its in the server. If it’s not, a new entry is created for them. If they are a previous user, their score is pulled.

The user is then presented with a phone tree, which contains the game’s name. Once they pick a game, they are given instructions on how to play. Every single time they get a right answer, their score is updated in the database.

In the back-end of things, I took a OOP approach for the project. Each game is a ‘module’, which are broken down into two simplistic functions: state question & check response. All other functionality of the game is handled by the main class. This will allow for easy swapping and adding of games. An extra class, Server, was written to allow for communication to the MySQL server. It was created as an extra class in order to separate the PHPAGI and PHP, along with giving each class its own purpose.

For the midterm, I would like to develop a set of module mini-games (aiming for three) that can be access from any type of phone. I would also like to keep track of the user’s score over multiple sessions.

I want to do this project for a few reasons:

• Provide entertainment in bite-size chunks
• Create games that are compatible with legacy hardware
• Create a project that is not limited to users of a certain phone type or brand
• Create a games that are not only entertainment, but also provide brain tune-ups.

The three games I currently have in mind are:

• Simon Says
• Math Blaster
• Tone Matcher

Development plan:

• Get AGI script for one game working
• Port script onto Asterisk server
• Create Main Menu
• Create AGI script to track user’s score

• Get familiar with PHP or Ruby programming and try some simple AGI scripting
• One idea might be to write an AGI script that reads the time and temperature

Response:

• I’ve decided to continue with PHP, in order to further my study in the language. For the assignment, I assigned four major cities, one per timezone, to the touchpad.
  1. Boston
  2. Minneapolis
  3. Denver
  4. Las Vegas
• The server will respond by stating the city, the time in said timezone, and weather.

Code:

#!/usr/bin/php -q
answer();

$cities = array();
$cities[1] = array("BOS", "Boston", "http://www.weather.gov/xml/current_obs/KBOS.xml", 0);
$cities[2] = array("MSP", "Minneapolis", "http://www.weather.gov/xml/current_obs/KMSP.xml", 3600);
$cities[3] = array("DEN", "Denver", "http://www.weather.gov/xml/current_obs/KDEN.xml", 7200);
$cities[4] = array("LAS", "Las Vegas", "http://www.weather.gov/xml/current_obs/KLAS.xml", 10800);
$continue = true;

while($continue) {
$agi->stream_file("vm-extension");
$return = $agi->wait_for_digit(-1); // -1 = wait forever
if ($return['result'] >= 0) {
$ascii = chr($return['result']);
} else {
$continue = false;
}
$weatherPage=file_get_contents($cities[$ascii][2]);
$currentTemp = -100;
if (preg_match("/([0-9.-]+)<\/temp_f>/i",$weatherPage,$matches)) {
$currentTemp=$matches[1];
} else {
noop("no match");
}

?>


• Setup a softphone for your use with Asterisk
• Try out the “Dial” application both through the Dialplan and with “call files”. (Be responsible)

Response:

• Zoiper (the sofphone software I’m using) doesn’t seem to happy with SIP; it will not play the audio or accept any extension. IAX on the other hand, works like a charm.
• I can finally record & playback phone calls, which is pretty exciting in it self.

Code:

exten => s,1,goto(ev526_week_3,s,1)

[ev526_sip]
exten => s,1,Goto(ev526_sip,1,1);
exten => _X,1,Answer();
same => n,SayPhonetic("TWO")
exten => _X,n,Goto(ev526,s,1);

[ev526_iax]
exten => s,1,Goto(ev526_iax,1,1)
exten => _X,1,Answer()
same => n,SayPhonetic("TWO")
exten => _X,n,Goto(ev526,s,1)

same => n,Wait(5)
same => n,GoTo(ev526_week_3,s,1)
exten => 2,1,Answer()
;To "real" phone
same => n,Dial(SIP/itp_jnctn/19498423052,30,r);
exten => 3,1,Answer()
;To "soft" phone
same => n,Dial(IAX2/ev526_iax,30,r)
;Reset caller ID to new number
;same => n,Set(CALLERID(num)=11231231234)
exten => 4,1,Answer()
;Record specific time period, stop recording when # is pressed
same => n,Record(/home/ev526/asterisk_sounds/rec/say_something.gsm,5,30)
;Playback with Controls
same => n,ControlPlayback(/home/ev526/asterisk_sounds/rec/say_something,1000,#,*,0,1,2)
same => n,GoTo(ev526_week_3,s,1)
exten => 5,1,Answer()
;Record until caller hangs up
same => n,Record(/home/ev526/asterisk_sounds/rec/say_something.gsm,,,k)
exten => 6,1,Answer()
;Record both parties in a conversation
same => n,Monitor(wav,/home/ev526/asterisk_sounds/rec/call_monitor);
same => n,Dial(SIP/itp_jnctn/19498423052,30,r);
exten => 7,1,Answer()
same => n,ControlPlayback(/home/ev526/asterisk_sounds/rec/call_monitor-in,1000,#,*,0,1,2)
same => n,GoTo(ev526_week_3,s,1)