Joe Beuckman
Apps and projects ยท GitHub
Apps
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DarkDrives: northern lights forecast and aurora alerts
Will the aurora be visible near you tonight? DarkDrives combines NOAA's aurora forecast with cloud cover, moonlight and darkness into a plain verdict, finds the darkest skies within a short drive, and sends free alerts for your saved places. On the web, iPhone and Android.
darkdrives.com
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TC Bus Data: live Twin Cities bus and light rail times
Real-time Metro Transit and MVTA departures for Minneapolis and Saint Paul, with stop schedules, route maps, live bus locations, service alerts and arrival notifications. Free, no ads, no account, in eight languages.
tcbusdata.com
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Chromattice: free bead, knitting and weaving pattern maker
Design patterns for loom and peyote beadwork, Perler and fuse beads, knitting charts, weaving, cross-stitch and pixel art. Draw cell by cell or start from a photo, then print a chart with every bead counted.
chromattice.app
Other projects
- Neutral Lines: all 435 congressional districts drawn by a public, verifiable rule and compared with the enacted maps.
- Autoframe: 3D-printable picture frames, with a snap-in stand and back plate, from any picture size.
- Krokbragd Draft: graph paper for designing krokbragd weaving drafts.
- Appalachian Trail Map: an interactive map of the whole trail.
- Prairie State Flag: a proposed design for a new Illinois state flag.
Open-source libraries
- genetic-search: a multiprocessing genetic algorithm library for TypeScript.
- geomagnetic-coords: convert between geographic and geomagnetic coordinates.
- staticmaps: render map images with markers, lines and polygons in Node.js.