This week we have selected Gesture Based Speed Dialer by Hadaytullah & Sri Harsha as our Featured Project. The foremost reason for selecting this project is its concept/innovation. We also liked its clear description, detailed explanation in in its Wiki, and the availability of its source code etc.

The project which is based on Windows Phone platform showcases as how different gestures(specifically tilting & shaking) can be utilized to dial contacts saved in the phone book of the device. The user can also assign different gestures for  a particular contact where every gesture would mean a different action(like tilting up mean dialing, tilt left means SMS etc.). To know more about its functionality & usage , its Wiki section can be referred.

The project also plans to implement more of functionality using combination of more complex gestures about which we would also be looking forward.

Lastly I would like to thank project owner(s) for hosting this brilliant idea with Projects & hoping  more of such project would be made in future.

- Vineet Jain (on behalf, Projects Moderation team)

This week’s Featured Project is CartoonMe by somnathbanik. We chose this project for a number of reasons with foremost being how various gestures can be utilized on a Windows Phone device.Along with that the other factors include the nice utilization of project infrastructure, availability of source code(for both Windows Phone 7 & Windows Phone 8) , a good number of followers depicting that the project is quite among the developers etc.

CartoonMe allows users to choose a picture from phone’s gallery or take a snap from device’s camera & select different objects with facility to drag those objects(here comes the gesture part in play) & put them anywhere on the picture & later it as well. The user also has the option to share the customized picture on Facebook etc.

It is worth mentioning that a related wiki article is also written by the project owner which describes the usage of different API’s etc. utilized in the project.

Lastly we expect more of such ‘cool’ & ‘nice’ projects to be developed by people out here & make the Projects more richer & resourceful.

- Vineet Jain (on behalf, Projects Moderation team)

Want to measure electricity consumption at your home? Use ElectricityMate , this week’s Featured Project. The project has been chosen because we like the simple and innovative approach it uses for measuring power use .

ElectricityMate measures the electricity consumption(in KWh) by taking into count the blinking of  LED present on electricity meters. The blinking of LED light is observed by checking the illumination values on video frames that are captured from the camera preview buffer of  a Windows Phone device(Lumia 900/920).The Files section of the project has a video(.mp4) file which shows the app in action.

Last but not the least we hope that project owner & all its members/contributors will keep on contributing to it continuously to make it more lively & a wonderful project.

- Vineet Jain (on behalf, Projects Moderation team)