Overview During my time at Easyodds I created an iOS for the 2016 Cheltenham Horse Racing Festival. The purpose of this app was to give punters the best odds for every race at the festival. The app also included all of the latest free bets, best offers and latest tips from professional tipsters. The app is […]
This project involved evaluating the operating characteristics of iBeacons. These findings were used to develop an indoor positioning system that allowed users to interact with the system using their physical location. The system included a mobile application that interacted with the iBeacons to determine how close the user is to specific points in the…
Sustrans asked Hoffi to develop a complex mobile application which would include 6 Sustrans cycle paths with history and mystery stories. The mobile app needed to be available on iOS and Android. Six of us worked on this project including graphic designers, cyclists, story tellers and mobile developers. I worked with another mobile developer…
During my last few weeks at Hoffi I was asked to do some exploratory work with the Web Speech API. They wanted to know if it would be suitable to future story based projects where users could tell the application what to do. To test the API I created my own speech to text web application…
While working at Hoffi I was asked to investigate the possibility of using mobile devices to control a computer’s web browser. This would involve developing a prototype which allows users to draw lines on a canvas from their mobile phones or tablets and then instantly update the canvas on the browser and other devices with the same line. I created…
While working for Hoffi I worked on a dot game using JavaScript. The idea is to collect the red circles by moving the grey circle (mouse position) as fast as possible. Once the red circles were collected they would surround and move with the grey circle at different speeds. This functionality was used in the development of Santa’s…
During my time at Cardiff University I created a mobile web application for Welsh for Adults. The purpose of this web app is to give users a free taster, a brief introduction at Welsh for Adults and try to persuade them to sign up for courses. Later in the year I was then asked to improve…
While working at Cardiff University I was asked to create a dashboard for the web development team which would display important site metrics. I created this dashboard using the Atlasboard graph package which runs on a Nodejs server. A lot of the data I needed to collect was stored on Google Analytics, but the…
During my placement at Cardiff University I created an iOS and Android application called Show me where. The application is aimed at helping autistic children describe parts of their body. It works by allowing users to slide different body parts across the screen onto a virtual doll and then outputs the relevant audio telling the user which…
In my spare time I decided to set myself a challenge to create a HTML5 reaction game within a week. The reaction game randomly generates a colour and displays it in a circle and then randomly positions the four available colours below it. The user needs to select the same colour from the bottom 4…