This year, during the 2020 AP exams, thousands of students had trouble with the mere five minutes they were allotted to upload pictures of their work.
The Problem...
Unfortunately, many were not able to successfully submit pictures due to the sluggish methods they used, including emailing and uploading to Google Drive. As the pandemic continues, students are forced to do the same in the virtual classroom environment in preparation for (potential) online AP exams this year. From personal experience, attempting to transfer a picture from my phone to my laptop and converting it into a pdf (required by my teacher) is extremely nerve-wracking. Failure to take a picture, upload, convert, and submit in time results in a deduction of points. This is extremely unfair to students who either do not have the resources to easily transfer the image or don't have the internet speed to do so in a conventional way.
Why is this a viable solution?
To solve this problem, I set up an FTP server on my phone and connected it to my laptop's filesystem. However, this is not a feasible option for most students, and many just want a simple solution to this problem.
That's where bunnimage comes in
The solution is easy to use and solves our problem in the simplest way possible. No apps need to be installed, no FTP servers need to be deployed, no worries about whether you have an Android or Apple phone—you just need to open one webpage on your sending and receiving device. Instead of having to create an email, attempt to send it (only to encounter the dreaded "Do you want to send without a subject?" message), and finally refresh frantically on your computer, bunnimage allows for easy upload and quick download!
In 2016 and 2017, more than half of the electricity generation capacity added to the U.S. power grid came from renewable resources, due to the steep decline in price for the generation of wind and solar energy. Though reducing our carbon footprint by a significant amount, there is a new problem that has emerged due to the fluctuations of weather that vary our access to power.
At noon, when the sun is high, the solar power generated is at its peak. However, demand for electricity only usually occurs later in the evening, when the sky is dark and families return home from work and school. Thus, an overgeneration of electricity may be created during lower demand hours. This may increase the electrical frequency and risk a disconnect between the power plant and the grid. On the flip side, if we feed in too little to meet demand, the electrical frequency drops and the grid may collapse, causing a power blackout. Moreover, on the economic side, overgeneration of renewable electricity may curtail it, discouraging investment into sustainable projects and decreasing their benefit.
Solution
Utility customers have had three options for meeting their electricity needs: buy it, make it, or eliminate it. But now they have a fourth option: to shift it through demand flexibility. What Flux aims to do is inform the user of the best times to turn their power on or off. When there is low demand for electricity, Flux will text the user that it is an optimal time to use electricity if necessary. When there is high demand, Flux will text the user that it is best to avoid the use of power at the present moment.
By periodically informing the user of the current demand of the grid, Flux can encourage demand flexibility of the power grid, and reduce the user's carbon footprint.
Online shopping is a service known for convenience and efficiency. However, it is often frustrating to buy a product only to find out that another site was selling it for less, or that the same site had a sale shortly after. This dilemma is contradictory to the benefits of online shopping mentioned above: there is little efficiency and convenience in having to manually search for the best prices. This proposal aims to minimize this issue in respect to shopping on Amazon. While there are many platforms for commerce, none are as comprehensive and wide-reaching as Amazon is, which gives this app an opportunity to make a greater impact.
The main function of this project is to notify a user when a product's price decreases from when they first inputted it into the program. The program will receive a link to a product along with a phone number, the desired timeframe for reminders to a website, and a baseline discount percentage for the item. The website triggers an Azure Timer Trigger, which sends a text message to the user if the price goes up from the time of start up or if the price decreases to the desired discount value.