Personal Projects

All of the listed projects below have been done privately, not related to any of the interesting projects done during work. So most of these projects are old, done during university time.

Currently I'm working on despaso. Information will be provided as soon as it is released... somewhen during 2010.

Technical: Despaso features several technologies such as Spring, Spring Security, Spring Webflow, Facebook and Twitter APIs.

As diploma thesis, I've been working on the topic of automation in private houses. Besides all the writing I created a prototype for controlling lights, heatings and much more, based on the Siemens Instabus. In addition, usability studies and designs for given project have been implemented by Wolfgang Hafenscher.

My diploma thesis eventually got published with the title Middleware für das Haus der Zukunft: Das eigene Heim wird intelligent.

Technical: The prototype has been built with Java built on the eclipse OSGi infrastructure, each feature encapsulated in OSGi compatible modules.

Comicart is a 3D Racer with an integrated Leveleditor and a custom physics engine. Comicart enables the players to model their own cars and scenes, to configure every game relevant feature and to build their own courses directly in the game.

Technical: Comicart was built with C++ and OpenGL. All data such as levels, cars and courses can be exchanged with other players.

Details can be found at comicart.thoean.com.

The Wombat Project consists of two parts. A role based game and an SMS library for sending text messages via computer with connected mobile phones.

The jSMS Library is a java based library for accessing mobile devices over virtually any interface (serial interface, infrared, bluetooth, ...). Back in 2003, the library was tested with the Siemens M35 mobile phone.

The game part is a role based game consisting of two or more groups and one referee. Similar to Scotland Yard, people run through the streets of a city, getting commands by SMS of a coordinator.

Technical: The wombat project was built on plain Java and Java Swing for the user interface.