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NameStatusDescriptionEstimated HoursEstimated CostPurchase PriceEdit
Cleanup Deleted Clear off all three desks. Replace all components and tools to their proper location. Replace CRT monitor with LCD. Label bins. Sweep/Mop all floors in house. Sand thresholds.
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5 $0.00 $50.00
Repair Critter Completed The Critter has a broken IR sensor, likely a pulled wire. Resolder and get it functional again. Purchase more sensors and plan to use plug connector for future ones to prevent the pulling of wires.
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4 $0.00 $40.00
Fix translator Completed Problem is most likely in the json_parse function. Possibly already fixed. Test extensively.
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2 $0.00 $20.00
Generic camserver functions. Deleted Code generic functions to handle simple databases. Load, save, get, put and append. Also several indexes for each database.
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4 $0.00 $40.00
Generic block databases Approved Make it easy to add more block or whitelist databases.
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4 $0.00 $40.00
Whitelist words Completed Words that get caught accidently by the cussword filter need to be whitelisted out. Where is a common one.
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2 $0.00 $20.00
Write instruction documents Deleted Write several instruction documents.

A new instruction page for the site.

A guideline for qualification and promotion of moderators, administrators, and paid admins.
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5 $0.00 $50.00
Insanity level Approved Fix the insanity level so it grows at a progressively slow rate as it gets higher.
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1 $0.00 $10.00
Design and code experience system Approved Experience, levels, credits.
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20 $0.00 $200.00
Learn HTML 5 Approved Learn HTML 5 and determine if it makes sense to integrate it into the site.
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20 $0.00 $200.00
Updating Time Approved The displayed time at the top of the page needs to update automatically.
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2 $0.00 $0.00
Advanced Flash Streamer Approved Self contained page that streams the car's webcam, has an automatically updating map, location, speed, destination distance, and webpage messages. The page will automatically activate the cam and start the flash streaming. It will probe for feedback from the site when the cam has stopped updating and automatically restart it.
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8 $0.00 $80.00
Fix cam database Approved Problems with account creation. Determine what they are and fix them.
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4 $0.00 $40.00
Fix visitor database Approved Problem with age of account and cookies. New accounts or any accounts getting a cookie value of 1 need to be treated as if they have no cookie and having a new one set.
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3 $0.00 $30.00
Message history Approved Be able to pull up a full history of all messages sent by a single user.
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1 $0.00 $10.00
Fix automatic associations. Approved Associations should automatically be detected for all ip addresses, not only between those which are associated.
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2 $0.00 $0.00
Block geographical location Approved Allow blocks based on city, state
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4 $0.00 $0.00
Fix phone captures Approved Fix program that reads the mbox file to extract images sent from a cell phone to be added to the captured pics page.
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3 $0.00 $0.00
Moderation functions Approved Add moderation capabilities to captured pics captions, comments.
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5 $0.00 $50.00
Fingerprinting Deleted Research fingerprinting.
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4 $0.00 $0.00
Wifi Bridge Approved A bridge for wifi so the critter has coverage everywhere in the house. Alternatively, locate the router in a more central location in the house.
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2 $0.00 $20.00
Android Approved Install the development software and learn to program Android apps.
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40 $0.00 $400.00
Critter Projects
SubProject
Submitted All of the critter projects to be used with the Stage 2 Critter.
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177 $290.00 $290.00
Office cam feature detection Submitted Do pattern matching with the office cam and the sign or a lamp to use that for the purpose of centering or otherwise orienting the camera.
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8 $0.00 $80.00
Location click for cam panning Submitted Automatically pan the cam based on a click on the cam's image to center it on the location clicked.
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2 $0.00 $20.00
Routine backups Submitted Automate a full weekly backup of the site and a daily backup of the code database.
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4 $0.00 $40.00
Server upgrades Submitted Consider consolidating Hal and Amadeus to possibly combine their functionality into a single machine. Alternatively upgrade hal and eliminate either amadeus or tranq.
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15 $500.00 $650.00
Broadcast audio Completed Replace the current microphone setup with one that delivers clear audio of the room. Investigate alternatives to using winamp dlp for encoding/streaming. Use html5 audio where possible as a replacement for the flash applet.
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15 $100.00 $250.00
64 bit conversions Submitted Make necessary modifications to all source code so it will compile and run correctly on a 64 bit operating system. Specifically, be sure to explicitly declare all functions that return a pointer, and convert all long variables to int if used in a database.
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16 $0.00 $160.00
Nested FAQ Completed Show the catagory and questions of each section of the FAQ for whatever answer is shown, so when redirected, the faq page has more substance to it.
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2 $0.00 $20.00
Insanity level based actions. Submitted Animations based on the insanity level.
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4 $0.00 $40.00
Message replies with audio Submitted Ding when a viewer gets a new message from the page.
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2 $0.00 $20.00
Admin page messages Completed Add sorting options.
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3 $0.00 $30.00
Dropzone Approved Implement dropzone for file uploads on the visitors pages.
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8 $0.00 $80.00
Imageserver Submitted Allow users to upload and organize images into albums, collections, etc, along with annotations and stuff. Also combine the captures into individual albums for each user and webcam, with a main captures album to combine all of them together.
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20 $0.00 $200.00
Huge Marquee Sign Completed Make a large version of the marquee sign. Use a 8'x2' sheet of pegboard with a RGB LED in each of the holes for
a resolution of 96x24.

Likely plan is to use a raspberry pi as the controller, along with either a lot of shift registers + D flipfops or to use a collection of either MAX7219 drivers or TLC5947.
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50 $420.00 $920.00
private cam bug with cam 0 Submitted On pages other than the main page, the cam default appears to be 0, which will cause weird behavior depending on settings for cam 0. Private mode on cam 0 will cause all pages other than the main page to forward back to the main page. Fix it somehow.
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3 $0.00 $30.00
Moderation task list Submitted Maintain a linked list of objects in need of moderation, in order of priority. Items are automatically removed from the list when moderated.
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4 $0.00 $40.00
Totals478$4170.00

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