Autosked is kind of a quirky product. The code base started life as a tee time management system for Portland golf courses. A golf-playing exec from a local car dealership asked if software could be modified to manage customer appointments in his lube / oil change bays. And Autosked was born. Many years later, the package is …

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Volved.org was developed as a search engine wrapper that would allow users to stay in touch with their favorite cause while also raising revenue for it. You set your browser’s default search engine to Volved. Then when you search, you are transferred to the Volved site which presents results, cause news and ads. The project …

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This application for Android phones could several hundred capital dollars at each installation it’s used. SWEETLab (Sustainable Water, Energy and Environmental Technologies Laboratory) at Portland State University needed a cheaper method to upload data from sensors on hand washing stations, latrines and cook stoves. The tools are deployed in Indonesia and other locations that usually …

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Amerifleet moves vehicles across the U.S. They needed a way to use Android devices to track the vehicles in its system as they were received, transported and maintained. Rather than using expensive single-purpose scanners, they decided to create an Android app and allow employees to load it on their personal phones. After trying a variety …

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Object recognition on mobile phones is typically done by uploading a picture to a server for recognition while the user waits. This project took recognition algorithms and the image database and put them on device. Applications using the SDK will include games, educational tools and real world browsers. The performance is impressive. With 1000 images in …

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