I just wanted to start some discussion and see what people are hacking on the side nowadays.<p>On that note, I'm in SF for the semester and would love to hack on something if you're looking to pair program. I like Javascript, Ruby, and front-end stuff. Email's in the profile...
I'm working on a python application that analyze the market feeling about a particular stock. I'm looking forward to open source after the basic part is done.<p>1)It finds and prepares database of tweets about public companies by searching tweets containing Company's name or ticker symbol.<p>2)Tags them as positive, negative or neutral comment.<p>3)Prepare a report depicting market sentiments about a particular stock over a period of time.<p>4)Compare it with how stock is actually doing in that time period and after that.<p>It is an experimental project to check if we can predict how the stock will fare by measuring the market sentiments toward it and if it is reliable or not.
I finally got my webcam to work on Windows with Processing (java variant used for image...processing. worst name ever) so I'm gonna build a "security cam" application for my room. Simple enough - constantly refresh the cam feed, check for significant changes in the image. I think I might try and add facial recognition for people who live in my house so if the camera catches them a script will send them an email or text saying "Stay out of my stuff!"