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Sun Clock
TEAM
- Anna Osipova
- Joonas Pohjala
GOAL
- To create a simple and fun app
- To educate people un sun clocks and nature laws
Idea
- Smartphones have GPS and can work as compasses
- If a phone knows where north is, it can also know where the sun is
- Why not make a fun clock?
- Sun clock is on of the oldest types of clocks
Problems
- The phone can't know where the sun is without knowing the time
- it is complicated to calculate more accurate sun position based on latitude
- GPS works better outdoors for obvious reasons
Sun Clock
FEATURES
- Shows a cool sun clock (baesd on the old sun clock located in Sevastopol)
- Turns the clock to face the right direction as it would be faced as a real sun clock, if you turn the phone the clock turns to still be facing in the right direction
- The shadow shows current time
Technologies
- JavaScript
- Visual Studio 2012
- PhoneGap