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I love it! From a hobbyist perspective, making something equivalent using a Raspberry Pi might be more fun, but just putting an old Android phone on a table an
by scribu 9y ago
I love it!
From a hobbyist perspective, making something equivalent using a Raspberry Pi might be more fun, but just putting an old Android phone on a table and starting the app is so much easier.
The fact that an app so “obvious” is only now available, after 10+ years since we’ve had smartphones, makes me hopeful that there are still many cool things to build for mobile, even for older hardware.
- lloeki 9y agoI used to have such an app installed on an old first gen Nexus 7 tablet, whose dock was an angled landscape one. The app could detect sound, light changes, movement, and persist a record accordingly. At night it could switch to a high gain mode and/or make use of the screen as a light source. Alternatively it could livestream. And display a clock as camouflage. Can't remember the app name. Use case? Monitor the cat who had the habit of being ill when I was away. Turns out neighbors made some strange noise that was too stressing to the poor guy.
- chatmasta 9y agoThere is an app called “Alfred” that does almost exactly this. It just doesn’t have Snowden as a “founder.”